“Would you please ask Greg Malouf for the recipe for his amazing mussel and prawn pilaki? It was the highlight of a wonderful meal I shared with my wife at Melbourne’s MoMo restaurant.”
Josh McCabe, Moorabbin, Vic
To request a recipe, write to Fare Exchange, , GPO Box 4088, Sydney, NSW 2001, or email us. All requests should include the restaurant’s name and address or business card, as well as your name and address.
Pilaki is a style of Turkish mezze.
Ingredients
Parsley salad
Method
Main
1.Preheat oven to 200C. Drain mussels, then insert a small knife into the round end of the mussel shell. Carefully cut the muscle holding the mussel in place, pry open, reserve juices and meat (discard shell) and set aside.
2.Blanch tomato in boiling water (10-20 seconds), then refresh, peel, coarsely chop and set aside.
3.Heat olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat, add onion and garlic and sauté until soft (5-7 minutes). Add celery, carrot, potato, tomato paste and tomato, sauté until starting to soften (5-7 minutes), then add stock, thyme, sugar, ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper and reserved mussel juice, reduce heat to low and stir occasionally until sauce is thick (20-25 minutes).
4.Add mussels and prawns to sauce, stir to combine, then add lemon juice and herbs, season to taste and remove from heat. Place a 20cm-square piece of baking paper into each of four 500ml-capacity bowls, divide mussel mixture between bowls, then tie paper in a parcel with kitchen string. Remove parcels from bowls, place on a baking tray and bake until seafood is just cooked (5-7 minutes).
5.Meanwhile, for parsley salad, combine parsley, celery leaves, shallot and sumac in a bowl, add oil and juice, season to taste, toss and serve with mussel and prawn pilaki, and Arabic bread if you like.
This recipe is from the December 2009 issue of magazine.
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