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Crab and scallop Mornay
Photo: Elle Hughes

Crab and scallop Mornay

17 ingredients 30 min + 1 hr Serves 6 openrecipes

Mornay, a mustard-flavoured cheese sauce makes an irresistibly melting topping for scallops served in their shells with crab and a gratinated crunchy topping.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

938
Calories
47g
Protein
27g
Fat
121g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 12 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Milk 1 cup (244ml) whole 149
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Shrimp 100g cooked 99
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Mustard 1 tsp (5g) yellow 3
Bay Leaf 1 leaf (0.6g) 2
Chive 1 tbsp (3g) 1
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 6 large diver-caught scallops
  • knob of butter
  • 100g/3½oz white or brown (or a mixture) handpicked crab
  • 500ml/18fl oz whole milk
  • 1 bay leaf
  • ½ small onion
  • 30g/1oz butter
  • 30g/1oz plain flour
  • 1½ tsp English mustard powder
  • 3 tbsp white wine
  • 2 tbsp single cream
  • 25g/1oz Gruyère
  • 2 heaped tbsp snipped chives
  • 25g/1oz white breadcrumbs
  • 25g/1oz Gruyère
  • 3 heaped tbsp finely chopped curly parsley
  • flaked sea saltblack pepper

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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