Moules au Combava

A tropical way with mussels, typical of the spirited, heavily creolised Réunion cooking.

The volcanic island is a French department in the Indian Ocean with a strong cultural and culinary influence from both France and India. French settlers to the uninhabited island first brought slaves from Africa to work their sugar plantations, then, after slavery was abolished, turned to Indian labourers from Tamil Nadu and the Malabar coast. These workers were given no choice but to ‘assimilat