Seafood Platter in Cream Sauce

If you are following my Instagram, you will know on Mondays, it's usually one-pot dinners for us.  Mainly because the wet market in our neighbour is closed on Mondays.  But it's also one-pot dinners for us whenever I feel lazy too. :P

So, anyway, we had seafood last night.  I bought some marinated Dory Fillet and got that oven grilled and served it on rice with broccoli and carrot.  You can have a look at that HERE.

I added a little bonus (bcos I was a little less lazy than usual. :P).  I wanted to clear the little bits and pieces of seafood that I had in the freezer.  I bought some really small squids (the are more tender than bigger ones) from the supermarket to add on to make this seafood platter.

I'm using the same recipe I shared earlier but I tweaked a little since there are also 'fresh' (as in uncooked) seafood here.

Ingredients:

• 6 frozen mussels, thawed and cleaned
• 6 Prawns, remove shell, leaving on the head and tall intact
• 3 small Squids, head and innards removed, cleaned and cut into thick rings
• 6 Scallops

Sauce:

• 20g Butter
• 3 - 4 Garlic, minced or grated (you can use a garlic press)
• 200g Cooking Cream
• 1/2 teaspoon Dried Thyme or a small handful Fresh Thyme
• 1 to 2 teaspoon Lemon Juice or to your taste
• Salt and Ground Black Pepper to taste
• Zest of half a lemon (optional)

How to to it:

1. Melt butter in a pan.
2. Add garlic and saute till soften and fragrant but not browned.
3. Add cream and Thyme.
4. Cook in medium low heat till the sauce bubbles.
5. Continue cooking till the sauce starts to thicken.
6. Add in the remaining ingredients for the sauce.
7. While the sauce is cooking, prepare the seafood. 
8. Make sure the mussels are thawed, cleaned and dabbed dry and set aside.
9. Season the remaining seafood with a pinch of salt and arrange them in a dish.
10. Steam on high heat for 2 mins.
11. Remove and dab dry.
12. Arrange all seafood together in a oven proof dish.
13. Once the  sauce is ready, pour it over the mussels.
14. Bake in preheated oven at 230C for 7 mins.
15. Serve immediately.

Notes:

• I pre-cook the fresh seafood before baking them because these seafood will have liquid when they are cooked.  Hence, pre-cooking them help to reduced it during the baking which will make the sauce too watery.