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Orange Coloured Dish




Source of Recipe


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Recipe Introduction


This is a gnocchi dish.





List of Ingredients



• potatoes
  
• flour
  
• egg (optional)
  
• salt
  
• 1 cup white wine
  
• small mussels
  
• saffron stamens (toasted and ground)
  
• quite a lot of butter
  
• carrot
  
• celery
  
• leek
  
• fennel
  
• water to cook gnocchi
  






Instructions



1. Steam some potatoes, drain and leave to steam out remnant of water. Mash
   
2. Add flour and egg (if using)with a pinch salt. Roll into a sausage shape and cut into slices.
   
3. Pour 1 cup white wine into a hot saucepan. Add the mussels and leave for a while. Shake the saucepan occaisionally to distribute heat.
   
4. As soon as mussles open, strain - reserving the liquor. Discard unopened mussels (as ALWAYS)
   
5. Add some liquor to a saucapan with the saffron. Whisk over heat adding in knobs of butter a little at a time (but lots over all)
   
6. Finaly dice the carrots, celery, leek and fennel and blanch in some more of the liquor.
   
7. Boil lots of water with some salt. Test with one gnocchi, if it holds its shape temperature is right. Cook all the gnocchi.
   
8. Drain gnocchi and toss them in the saffron sauce.
   
9. Scatter the blanched vegetables over the mussels (a bit on each mussle) and top with the gnocchi.