Choros a la Chalaca
- 8 Mussels
- 1 Purple Onion
- 1 Tomatoe
- 80 grams Peruvian corn
- 1 Garlic Tooth
- 50 ml Lemon Juice
- 4 Spicy Yellow Pepper
- 1 Rocoto Pepper
- 1 tbsp Chopped Coriander
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 dash Olive Oil
- 1 tsp Anis
- 1 tsp Cloves
- 2/3 cup Sugar
- Boil the mussels starting from cold water until they open up, then remove the water and remove 1 shell of each mussel
- Cut the yellow peppers in half and clean them, then wash them with salt and water 3 times, put them in a pan with cold water and boil them untill the skin is easily removable and remove it from each half of yellow pepper.
- Cut the purple onion in half, cut 1 half in big cubes and put them in a pan with hot olive oil untill the onion start to swet, then add the yellow pepper, cook them for 3-4 minutes and blend all the mixture with a dash of olive oil to make a yellow pepper sauce
- Put the peruvian corn with the anis and cloves in a pot with cold water and cook it for 5 minutes then add sugar cook until the corn teeth are soft and reserve
- Blend the rocoto until it becomes a sauce
- Cut the other onion half, the tomato (peel it first) abd the garlic in brunoise (very little squares) and mix them with the peruvian corn, lemon juice, coriander, salt, a little bit of rocoto sauce and yellow pepper sauce (don't add all the sauce)
- Finally with a spoon put some mixture over each mussel and Enjoy!!
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mussels, purple onion, corn, garlic, lemon juice, yellow pepper, pepper, coriander, salt, olive oil, sugar
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/349635-choros-a-la-chalaca (may not work)