first experience of mussel,..nd goan style mussel pulao

what a experience to remember,..i had mussel pasta few days back,,really liked the mussel taste..today when i went for grocery shopping with my son i saw green mussels,..couldnt stop myself from buying,..back home i googled for recipes...and got the goan mussel pulao,..easy to make,..i thought of preparing goan mussel pulao for dinner,..but ididnt had any idea how to clean ,whether to cook after opening the shell,..or cook with shell,..i had asked the guy at the shop way to clean mussel and he told me to keep in salt water before cooking,,i had kept for half an hour, but still was closed..hubby was on night call,..so called him up and asked him,,,he told me to slit open the mussel with knife,,i tried but it was to hard to open,.then i googled ways to open mussel,,and i got this it was written that i can cook without opening the shell,,and on cooking the shell will open on its own,..it was like taking bigtime risk,,i thought if the shell dont open i will just eat the rice,..i had to take risk,,,so i followed,,,which goes like this

ingredients
mussel one cup ( i used four)
rice two cups( i used one bowl of cooked rice,,as i already had leftover cooked rice
one onion chopped
one toamto chopped
one tablespoon oil





green cardamom 4
clove 4
cinnamon stick one inch
red chilli 4
salt to taste
turmeric powder a pinch

procedure

heat oil in wok
add cardamom,clove,cinnamon and redchilli



now add chopped onion followed by toamtoes
add the turmeric and salt..and keepfrying till tomatoes lose their shape
now add mussels



voila as soon as i added mussels they started popping up,,i sighed..i was pretty tensed,,

after two minutes add rice



half bowl of water

cover and cook
mussel pulao is ready to eat,..