BBC Food - Recipes - Crab and scallop Mornay

BBC Food - Recipes - Crab and scallop Mornay

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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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Ingredients

  • 6 large diver-caught scallops , shucked (keep the shells)
  • knob of butter
  • 100g/3½oz white or brown (or a mixture) handpicked crab meat
  • 500ml/18fl oz whole milk
  • 1 bay leaf
  • ½ small onion , finely sliced
  • 30g/1oz butter , plus extra for greasing
  • 30g/1oz plain flour
  • 1½ tsp English mustard powder
  • 3 tbsp white wine
  • 2 tbsp single cream
  • 25g/1oz Gruyère cheese, finely grated
  • 2 heaped tbsp snipped chives
  • 25g/1oz white breadcrumbs , made with crust-less day-old bread
  • 3 heaped tbsp finely chopped curly parsley (optional)
  • flaked sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

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