Irish Mussels with Cashel Blue

By Thomas Loisel

This is a really easy, simple recipe that captures the freshness and the best of Irish food – mussels from the sea and a blue cheese sauce made with Cashel Blue!

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This is a really easy, simple recipe that captures the freshness and the best of Irish food – mussels from the sea and a blue cheese sauce made with Cashel Blue!

Ingredients:

  • 500g Fresh Irish Mussels
  • 1 medium Red Onion
  • 15ml White Wine
  • 50ml Cream
  • 75g Cashel or Crozier Blue Cheese
  • 1 Handful Chopped Fresh Parsley
  • Freshly Ground Black Pepper

Step-by-step:

  1. Chop the red onions and fry in some oil
  2. While the onions are frying, heat up the cream in a saucepan, and add in the Cashel Blue Cheese so that it melts in. This will be your basic blue cheese sauce. Once the cheese has melted in, keep the sauce ready on a very low heat.
  3. Back to the frying pan – when the onions are nice and soft, add in the white wine, stir it around with the onions letting it simmer and reduce.
  4. Add in the fresh mussels to the pan with 2 cups of fresh water, and toss around the mussels and the onions together. Throw on a few pinches of freshly ground black pepper. Put the lid on the pan and let it all simmer
  5. After 7-10 minutes, or until the mussels are nicely cooked, remove the lid and spoon out the mussels into 2 pretty bowls, allowing some of the juice to be transferred also.
  6. Next spoon over the blue cheese sauce generously, and sprinkle with some fresh parsley.
  7. Serve with some slices of toasted sourdough with olive oil.
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Cashel Blue

Can be enjoyed by those sensitive to Lactose - Did you know the lactose, i.e the natural sugars in the milk, are fermented out over time.

Ingredients: Pasteurised cow’s MILK, salt, rennet, starter cultures and Penicillum Roquefortii.

Allergy Advice: Contains milk

Cashel Blue®
Country of Origin: Ireland
Established: 1984
Milk Type:  Whole Cow’s Milk
Pasteurised: Yes
Rennet: Vegetarian
Style: Semi-Soft, Blue
 
Nutritional Information:
Typical values per 100g:
Energy - 1444kJ / 348kcal
Fat – Total Fat: 28.8g
Saturated Fat: 18.4g
Monounsaturated Fat:7.2g
Polyunsaturated Fat:0.8g
Trans Fats: 1.0g
Carbohydrate (by difference): 0.9g
Sugars: 0.2g
Protein: 20.4g
Salt: 2.0g