KERALAN SEAFOOD PIE
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp coconut oil or vegetable oil
- 10 fresh curry leaves
- 1 large onion
- sliced
- 2.5cm/1in fresh root ginger
- cut into fine strips
- 4 green chillies
- split open lengthways
- 500g/1lb 2oz mussels in the shell
- cleaned
- ½ tsp ground turmeric
- ½ tbsp rice flour
- 500ml/18fl oz extra thick coconut milk
- 1 tsp salt
- 250g/9oz peeled and deveined raw prawns
- 200g/7oz undyed smoked haddock fillet
- diced into 1 inch pieces
- 200g/7oz cleaned squid tubes or cuttle fish
- scored
- 375g/13oz all butter puff pastry – rolled 3mm/1/8in thick
- 4 x 16cm diameter discs
- 2 eggs
- lightly beaten
- 1 tbsp black onion seeds
- 115g/4oz sprouted fenugreek seeds
- 115g/4oz sprouted moong beans
- 1 tomato
- deseeded
- cut into ½ cm/¼ in dice
- ½ cucumber
- deseeded
- cut into ½ cm/¼ in dice
- 1 green chilli (optional)
- finely chopped
- ½ lemon
- juice only
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp sugar
- 2-3 tbsp olive oil
- 10 fresh curry leaves
- 2 green chillies
- split open lengthways
Directions
- For the pie
- preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
- First make the sauce. Heat the oil in a large frying pan
- add the curry leaves
- onion
- ginger and green chillies and cook
- stirring
- until the onion is soft.
- Add the mussels and turmeric
- followed by the rice flour.
- Mix the rice flour in evenly
- then add coconut milk and salt
- and bring to a simmer.
- Cook for 2-3 minutes
- until the mussels open up and sauce begins to turn glossy.
- Remove the mussels and take the meat out of the shell
- discarding the shells. Set the mussels aside
- and continue to cook the sauce until it thickens and becomes very thick.
- Remove the sauce from the heat
- cool and mix the raw seafood and the mussel meat through the sauce.
- Divide the pie filling equally among four shallow cast-iron skillets
- garnish with the green chillies and curry leaves and cover with the puff pastry disc.
- Brush the pies with egg
- sprinkle with black onion seeds and bake in the oven for 15 minutes
- or until the fish is cooked through and the pastry crisp and golden brown.
- For the salad
- mix together all the ingredients for the salad.
- Serve the pie with the sprouted fenugreek and moong lentil salad alongside.

