My “new” favourite food.
Some background: I had some excellent mussels couple of years ago in Notting Hill bar. Not your typical white wine ones - they were cooked in coconut curry. Because I thought it would be typical Thai cousine I tried to order same thing in Thailand couple of times - and always I was presented with red curry with typical chicken/pork/potatoes replaced with mussel meat. It was always good but not what I was looking for. I’ve even asked kitchen pros how to make that stuff.
Today I picked some food from my favourite Borough Market and decided to have some mussels as well. First attempt at Google gave reasonable recipe and I adjusted that to what I had available:
End results looked like this - I can imagine you getting hungry right now 
First taste was definitely “wow”. If possible it was even better than what I recalled from my earlier experience. I think it was due high quality of mussels mostly (just couple of broken shells, not a single dead ones!) - they were just real soft and delicious, nothing like those frozen one’s I’ve cooked before.
If you wish to give it a try here’s what I did:
1 table spoon of butter
1 lemon crass, smashed and in 1 inch pieces
2 inch piece of ginger; chopped
2 garlic cloves, chopped
2 tomatoes, chopped
1 table spoon of thai curry paste
1 can of coconut milk
splash of fish sauce / nam pla
mussels (I don’t know how much, look at the picture..)
0. Check mussels, discard those that don’t close when knocked or are cracked. Remove any seaweed if you like.
1. Heat butter
2. Cook spices
3. Add tomatoes, cook while
4. Add curry paste, cook while
5. Add coconut milk.
6. Let it simmer until you are ready to server, hopefully not more than 10 mins.
7. Add mussels, cook about 3-5 minutes
8. Don’t eat those that are not open.
If you don’t have some of the ingredients just skip them or use something else. My chili was pretty hot and it would be better to keep it reasonable, point is to taste mussels, not chili! Coriander wouldn’t hurt if you like it, I forgot to throw some in as I typically do.
This is really easy and mussels are quite cheap so why not to give it a try!
