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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  African >> Rest Africa >> Nigerian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat the oven to 180C/gas 4. | 2. Heat the oil and butter in a pan and gently cook the onion for 2-3 minutes until soft. | 3. Add the garlic, carrot, and all the spices and cook for a further 2 minutes. | 4. Stir in the mussels, breadcrumbs, egg, almonds and lemon juice. Season to taste with the salt. | 5. Pour into 6 large ramekins or 1 large oven-proof baking dish and place the bay leaves in the centre. | 6. To make the topping; whisk together all the topping ingredients and pour over the mussel mixture. | 7. Cook for about 12 minutes for individual ramekins or 30 minutes for the large dish, until firm and golden. | 8. To make the pumpkin fritters; place the dry ingredients in a food processor, add the eggs and process to form a thick batter. The batter should hold it's shape, if too thick add a little milk, if too wet, add a little more flour. | 9. Heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan. Drop heaped tablespoons of the batter into the pan and fry till firm and golden. Flip over and fry on the other side. | 10. Serve warm sprinkled with a little cinnamon sugar if you like. | 11. To make the relish; place the tomatoes on a hot barbecue or griddle pan and cook until the skins are charred. | 12. Remove from the heat and cut into dice. | 13. Mix the tomatoes with the onion, thyme, oil and vinegar and season with salt and pepper. | 14. Serve mussels with the pumpkin fritters, charred tomato relish and rice too, if you like! | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
olive oil	2	tablespoons		238.68	0.0	0.0	27.0
butter	1/2	tablespoon		42.75	1.9642	1.3358	3.6
onion	1		chopped	64.0	14.944	1.76	0.16
garlic clove	2		chopped	13.35	0.0	2.97	0.075
carrot	200	g	grated	82.0	19.16	1.86	0.48
curry powder	2	teaspoons		13.0	2.2332	0.5716	0.5604
ginger	1/2	teaspoon	ground	0.8	0.1777	0.0182	0.0075
nutmeg	1/2	teaspoon	grated	5.775	0.5422	0.0642	0.3994
turmeric	1	teaspoon	ground	9.36	2.0142	0.2904	0.0975
chili powder	1	pinch		0.4759	0.0839	0.0227	0.0241
mussel	1		cooked shelled	390.0969	16.7379	53.9785	10.1607
breadcrumb	15	g		13.35	0.0	2.97	0.075
egg	1		beaten	71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
almond	1	tablespoon	ground	120.22399999999999	0.0	0.0	13.6
lemon juice	1	tablespoon		3.355	1.0523	0.0534	0.0366
salt				-	-	-	-
bay leaf	6			-	-	-	-
cream	200		sour	91080.0	2129.8	1122.4	8901.0
salt black pepper	1	pinch		13.35	0.0	2.97	0.075
egg	2			71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
pumpkin	450	g	cooked	67.5	14.76	4.635	0.315
plain flour	50			13.35	0.0	2.97	0.075
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
cinnamon	1	teaspoon	ground	-	-	-	-
baking powder	2	teaspoons		4.876	2.5484	0.0	0.0
sugar	1	tablespoon		55.062	13.7724	0.0	0.0
egg	2		beaten	71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
milk				-	-	-	-
vegetable oil				-	-	-	-
plum tomato	3			13.35	0.0	2.97	0.075
red onion	1		diced	-	-	-	-
thyme	2	teaspoons	chopped	1.6159999999999999	0.3912	0.08900000000000001	0.0269
olive oil	2	tablespoons		238.68	0.0	0.0	27.0
vinegar	1/2	tablespoon		1.5645	0.0693	0.0	0.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.