INGREDIENTS
- 450g Mussels
- 150ml Dry White Wine
- 150ml Water
- 225g Monk Fish
- 100g Pork Fillet
- Oil
- 1.4kg Chicken (8 pieces)
- 450g Whole Prawns
Rice
- 2 Onoins, chopped
- 1 Red Chili (pitless and cut in rings)
- 2 gloves of Garlic
- 4 Tomatoes (skinless and pitless, chopped)
- 5ml (borrie) or Saffraan
- 1l Boiling Water
- 400g Rice
- 5ml Paprika
- Salt and Blackpepper
- 225g Smoked Pork Saucages
- 100g Peas (skinless)
Garnish
- Lemon Wedges
- Wash mussels with a brush under cold water until clean
- Through away open shells
- Remove 'beard' from shells with a knife
- Boil mussels slowly in the wine and water with a lid and simmer for 5 minutes
- Through away the shells that didn't open.
- Keep some of the mussels for garnish and remove the rest for shells
- Sift mussel liquid
- Cut fish and pork in 2,5cm squares.
- Heat 45ml oil in casserole and fry pork until golden brown (3 minutes)
- Remove and keep aside. Add fish and fry until golden brown.
- Remove from sauce and keep aside
- Fry chicken pieces in oil and both sides until golden bruin
- Remove and keep aside
- Remove prawn meat from shells but keep a couple for garnish
- Remove top from every one and through away
- Cut shell open on tail and remove inside meat
- Remove black gut on the backside
- In case using saffraan, place in small bowl, add boiling water and leave for 5 minutes
- Heat oil in a pan and add chopped onions and chili
- Fry on low heat until brown
- Add garlic and tomatoes
- Increase heat and stir fry until most sauce has evaporated
- Stir the rice in the pan and cook for 1-2 minutes
- Add boiling water and saffraan (with water)
- Add mussel stock or water/wine
- Boil fast and stir occasionally and add rest of the spices
- Cut sausages into 5mm rings
- Add chicken, meat, sausages and peas to the pan mixture (can put in oven at this point)
- Stir and mix
- Reduce heat and simmer for 25-30 minutes or until rice is cooked
- Add fish, prawns and mussels and cook another 5 minutes.
- Garnish with mussels in shells and whole prawns
- Serve with fresh green salad