STEAMED MUSSELS

 These delicious mussels steamed with lemongrass and basil leaves are serve hot and goes with a dipping sauce. All use simple ingredients to cook.At the market ,there are fresh mussels,I bought a kg home to cook.

STEAMED MUSSELS

Ingredients;
1 kg of mussels
1 cup basil leaves
two stalk lemongrass,mashed
4 spring onion,cut in short length


Sauce;
1/2 cup lemon juice
2 tbsp  fish sauce
2 coriander roots,coarsely chopped
2 cloves garlic,crushed
1 tsp ground paprika/ i used bird eye chilli,chopped
1/2 water

wash and scrape the mussels. Disard any open ones. Places in a steamer over boiling water and sprinkle bassil leaves,spring onion,lemongrass.Steam for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and wait
for 2 minutes before opening the steamer.

Meanwhile,mix the sauce ingredients together,bring to a boil then leave to cool.serve mussels in a large dish,discarding any that have not opened during steaming.An individual dish of the sauce should be given to each diner.