Ingredients
Rocket mayo
Mussel fritters
Method
Rocket mayo
1.Place the mayonnaise in a food processor or bowl (if you have a stick blender). Add the rocket and pulse until the rocket is incorporated and the mayonnaise turns a wonderful pale green. Stir through the lemon zest and juice and season to taste with flaky sea salt and pepper.
Mussel fritters
2.To prepare the fritters, clean and de-beard the mussel shells. Put them in a large, dry pan, tightly cover with a lid and place over high heat for 2-3 minutes or until the mussel shells just open. (You don’t want to cook them much at all; this process is just to open the shells enough to extract the mussel meat easily.) Extract the meat and finely chop or mince it. Set aside.
3.In a bowl, whisk the egg and milk together, sprinkle in the flour, season with sea salt and pepper and mix to a smooth batter. Stir in the mussel meat and the chopped onion.
4.Heat a frying pan over medium heat and add around 1 Tbsp of the oil to coat the base of the pan. Drop in two large spoonfuls of the batter mixture and cook for around 2 minutes before carefully flipping to cook the other sides for a further minute.
5.Remove fritters and set aside in a warm place while you cook the final two, adding a little more oil to the pan first.
6.Serve warm fritters between thick slices of wholemeal bread with lashings of rocket mayo.
