1. What you need (4 servings) :

• 225 g (9 oz) Italian Rice, 5 tablespoons olive oil, 1 tablespoon lemonjuice:
• 1 tablespoon vinager, salt, freshly ground black pepper.
• 1 onion, 1 fennel, 2 tablespoons chopped parsley.
• 2,5 litres (2 gts) fresh mussels, 500 g (1 lb) peeled shrimps.

How to do it :

• Bring the water to the boil in a big pot.
• Add the rice, and let boil untill soft.
• Drain the rice and poor over in a bowl.
• Chop the onion roughly.
• Chop the fennel to fine strips.
• Ad the onion,oil, lemon juice and vinager to the rice.
• Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Let get cold.
• Add the fennel and parsley.
• Clean and cook the mussels .
• Take the cooked mussels out their shell when they are cold (save 5 - 6 in their shell)
• Add the mussels to the rice together with the shrimps.
• Decorate the rice with parts of boiled eggs, black olives, a couple unpealed shrimps, the mussels in their shell and a fennel twig.

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