Stella’s Truffle Mussels

Here's a winner: the 2012 Belgian Restaurant Week Mussel Throwdown winning dish, to beryllium exact. Six chefs representing Belga Cafe, Brasserie Beck, Et Voila!, Locolat and Granville Moore's competed for apical honors astatine Washington's 3rd yearly event, held Saturday astatine Yards Park.

Chef Martin Castillo of Belga Cafe came up with the recipe, a mentation of which has been connected the paper of the Capitol Hill edifice for astir 8 months, helium says. (You tin bid the winning crockery astatine the edifice opening this week.) The sensation lives up its aromatic ingredients, which see leek, a spot of bacon and chorizo (a motion to the Mexican-born chef, perhaps), a puree of greens, Stella Artois brew and the essence of truffle, delivered caller oregon via a good-quality lipid specified arsenic Sabatino Tartufi brand. Seven pounds of mussels makes a generous main people for four.

Serve with crusty breadstuff for dipping.

Adapted from cook Castillo of Belga Cafe successful Washington.

Ingredients

Adapted from cook Castillo of Belga Cafe successful Washington.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.