Mussel soup – Spress https://en.spress.net Spress is a general newspaper in English which is updated 24 hours a day. Sun, 06 Jun 2021 22:10:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 191965906 Remember the mussel season https://en.spress.net/remember-the-mussel-season/ Sun, 06 Jun 2021 22:10:08 +0000 https://en.spress.net/remember-the-mussel-season/ My hometown is located on the winding Mai Giang River, the water flows cool. When I was a child, I often followed my mother to the river to scratch mussels. The time when people often scratch mussels is at midday, at that time, the water is as calm as the sheets, the sun shines clearly to the bottom of the river. I was small then, so my mother just let me stand on the shore. Every once in a while, I would give the basin to my mother to pour the mussels in. Tiny mussels the size of a fingernail, an adult’s toenail lay neatly in the aluminum bowl, mixed with them were grains of grit, rotten wood… I patiently picked them up out of the bowl with joy and excitement. Lunch has a delicious mussel soup.
Mother mussels scratched the part to eat, the rest brought to the market to sell for money. A pound of mussels doesn’t cost much, but mom still works hard from noon to noon, soaking in the water, under the summer sun like pouring fire to scratch each small mussel. Mother always said that when you are young and healthy, you should work to squeeze, if the next day you are sick or old and weak. Later, when I think about it, I feel sorry for my mother. I love the farmers in my hometown, all my life, hard work, but life is not happy forever. Love the exhilaration when people rake the mussels full.

From a young age, my body has soaked in the taste of mussels, the smell of the brackish sweetness of Mai Giang river water penetrates the skin into the salty meat. The smell of a basket of freshly boiled mussels, smoke rises when I carefully separate each one into a small bowl. The smell of simple, frugal meals with mussel soup, fried mussels, mussel rice, or mussel porridge. A bowl of mussel soup cooked with vegetable soup is a favorite of both my sisters and me, never getting bored of eating. The food is also very simple to prepare. After being picked up in the river, mussels rub off all the sand. Next, put it in a pot, add a little salt and start boiling. Boiling mussels does not need to be boiled thoroughly, just boiling to be able to remove from the stove. The mussel boiling water is settled several times to clean the sand. Shell and mussel meat are poured into a clean pot, stirring repeatedly with chopsticks to let the mussels fall out. Mussel meat is washed with clean water until the sand is gone. Put the pot of mussel broth on the stove to boil, drop mussel meat and vegetables, wait for it to boil, season with spices to have a delicious pot of soup. My sisters and I grew up through hard mussel seasons and from such delicious bowls of mussel soup. Growing up, I had the opportunity to go here and there, enjoy many different delicious dishes, but I still remember the mussel dish from my hometown the most. Text: Tang Hoang Phi

]]> 21152 Sour mussel soup: A delicious dish for a summer meal https://en.spress.net/sour-mussel-soup-a-delicious-dish-for-a-summer-meal/ Sun, 30 May 2021 05:40:08 +0000 https://en.spress.net/sour-mussel-soup-a-delicious-dish-for-a-summer-meal/ Sour mussel soup is a dish that is very popular with family members in the summer.
Mussel soup cooked with star fruit

Illustration. Image source: Internet Resources: 1kg baby mussels 3 sour star fruit (200g) 2 tomatoes (150g) 2 sprigs of scallions 2 purple onions. Seasoning: seasoning, sugar, fish sauce, salt, cooking oil. Instructions for making mussel soup with star fruit Making: Soak mussels in water with fresh chili for about 30 minutes, then wash and dry. Put the mussels in a saucepan, pour a bunch of water, bring to a boil, when the water boils, the mussels open their mouth, add 50ml of cold water, stir the mussels and stir, remove the mussels, pour the water into the bowl and filter the water to remove the sand residue. You put the mussels in the treatment to get the intestines and wash, set aside. Peel off the edges of star fruit, slice 0.3cm. Sliced ​​orange tomatoes. Scallions, root removed, finely chopped. Peeled onion, finely chopped. Put the saucepan on the stove, add a tablespoon of cooking oil, bring to a boil, add the dried onions and saute, stir-fry the mussel intestines, then add the tomatoes to the island. After 3 minutes, pour in filtered mussel water, you can add cold water depending on the needs of the family’s soup. Bring to a boil, when the water boils, add the star fruit. Wait for the water to boil again, season with 2 teaspoons seasoning, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon sugar. Ladle into a bowl, sprinkle with finely chopped scallions. Mussel soup cooked with tomatoes, along the mosquito net Illustration. Image source: Internet Resources: 1kg mussel shell 1 tomato 1/3 pineapple 2 vertical nets (mint) Lettuce, green onion, lemon 2 teaspoons soup powder ½ teaspoon sugar 1 tablespoon fish sauce Making: Buy mussels to soak for half a day or soak for about 1 hour with water with a few chopped fresh chili peppers to let the mussels release all the dirt. Put the mussels in a pot of boiling water, take out the mussels, to settle the clear water. Treat the mussels to remove the intestines. Tomato tonic areca, pineapple cut into bite-sized pieces. Along the mosquito net (mint), remove the fiber, then squeeze with a little salt. Green onion leaves washed and finely chopped. Put the pan on the stove, fry the minced purple onion, pour in the mussel meat and stir fry with 1 teaspoon of soup powder, put the mussels on a plate. Still taking the old pan, sauté minced purple onions and lightly sauté the tomatoes. Pour the sautéed mussel meat and tomato with pineapple into the pot of filtered mussel juice, add 1 teaspoon of soup powder, ½ teaspoon of sugar, bring to a boil, drop along the net (mint), squeeze the juice of half a lemon into it. Turn off the heat, add 1 tablespoon fish sauce, drop laksa leaves and green onions.

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