Connemara Mussel Pie

 Prep Time: 10mins
Cook Time: 15mins
Ready in: 25

A tasty Connemara Mussel Pie

Ingredients

  • Ingredients for Mussel filling
  • 1520 Mussels, washed & cleaned
  • 35ml Cream
  • 10g Flour
  • 10g Butter
  • 50ml White Wine
  • 30g Carrots, diced
  • 30g Fennel, diced
  • 2 Shallots, diced
  • 1tsp Dill, chopped
  • 20ml Mussel Stock
  • Salt&Pepper
  • Ingredients for Chive Mash
  • 46 Potatoes, peeled and quartered
  • 60g Butter
  • 100ml Cream
  • 100g Chives, chopped
Method

  1. To make the chive mash, put the potatoes in a pot of salted water and bring to the boil. Cook for 25 minutes. Drain, mash and transfer to a bowl. Heat the cream for 23 minutes, add the butter and allow to melt. Add ht epotatoes and mix. Season to taste. Keep Warm.
  2. To make the filling, place the Mussels in a pot with the dill and white wine. Cook for 34 minutes. Take the mussels out of the pot ( reserve the cooking stock) and remove the mussels from their shells. Place in a bowl and keep warm.
  3. Heat a pan and add butter. Add the carrot, fennel and shallots and cook for 23 minutes. Add the flour to thicken the mix. Add the white wine and the mussel stock, cook for 2 minutes then add the cream and dill. Add the shelled mussels.
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