Seafood coquilles: Cheesy French seafood starter for summer

It's seafood season and it's always great weather for cheese. Combine them with this creamy seafood coquilles recipe, made for your family.

Sep 28, 2022 - 11:01
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Seafood coquilles: Cheesy French seafood starter for summer

When it comes to dinner parties, you need food that’s going to turn heads and make mouths water. French cuisine is often seen as the fancy food but sometimes, you get something rustic that still has that dinner party feel. These seafood coquilles are a great example of this with all kinds of seafood with a great helping of golden cheese which would make anybody smile.

Seafood coquilles tips

The recipe is full of great shellfish like mussels, crayfish, prawns and the original is made with scallops in the scallop shells. The shellfish cooks quite quickly, making it easy to prepare. The breadcrumbs with the cheese adds great texture with the creamy sauce. You can serve this starter in the shells or nice ramekins for great starters for your dinner party.

It’s seafood season and it’s always great weather for cheese. Combine them with this creamy seafood coquilles recipe, made for your family.

Seafood coquilles recipe

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Recipe by Gary Dunn Course: StarterCuisine: FrenchDifficulty: Easy
Servings

2

servings
Prep time

20

minutes
Cooking time

30

minutes
Total time

50

minutes

Ingredients

  • 4 tbsp butter

  • 4 tbsp flour

  • 1½ cups milk

  • 2 egg yolks

  • ½ cup white wine

  • ½ cup cooked crayfish, sliced (optional)

  • ½ cup cooked, cleaned small prawns

  • 1 cup mussels (tinned)

  • 1 tbsp chopped onion

  • 6 large mushrooms

  • ½ cup cream

  • salt and black pepper

Method

  • Melt butter, add flour, gradually add hot milk. Cook until smooth and thickened, stirring constantly, then add slightly beaten egg yolks.
  • Meanwhile saute the mushrooms in butter – add onion and cook a few minutes. Add wine, crayfish, shrimp and mussels and let simmer for about 15 minutes.
  • Drain juice and cream sauce. Reduce juice taken out of mixture and add the creamed mixture until quite firm consistency, not watery.
  • Fill Scallop shells and sprinkle with breadcrumbs and grated cheese.
  • Pipe with mashed potato.
  • Brown under the grill for a few minutes.

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