Middle_Eastern
Middle Eastern - Seafood Dishes
Dolma Seafood Specialty
Chef's Menu Description
Sustainably sourced fresh fish fillet pan-seared with a crisp skin, served with garlic herb butter, seasonal vegetables, and lemon.
Ingredients
- • 24 large mussels in the shell, scrubbed
- • 1 cup short-grain rice
- • 1 onion, finely chopped
- • 2 tbsp pine nuts
- • 2 tbsp currants
- • 1 tsp ground allspice
- • 1 tsp dried mint
- • 1/2 cup olive oil
- • 1 lemon, juiced
Preparation Steps
1
Phase 1
Saute the onion in the olive oil, then add the rice, pine nuts, currants, allspice, mint, and 1/2 cup water, and cook for 10 minutes.
2
Phase 2
Pry each mussel shell open slightly without separating the halves.
3
Phase 3
Spoon 1 tablespoon of the rice filling into each mussel and press the shell closed.
4
Phase 4
Pack the mussels into a pot, add the lemon juice and enough water to come halfway up, and simmer covered for 35 minutes.
5
Phase 5
Cool to room temperature and serve with lemon wedges.