Scallop Recipe with Cream Sauce

Scallop Recipe with Cream Sauce

from willcookforsmiles.com
25 min

This seared scallop recipe has a rich and creamy Parmesan sauce and is perfect over a bed of pasta. Make it for dinner tonight in under 30 minutes!

Ingredients

  • 1 lb sea scallops (dry)
  • sea salt or kosher coarse salt
  • fresh cracked black pepper
  • 2 tbsp canola oil
  • 2 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • 3 tbsp stock
  • 1 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 3/4 cup fresh grated Parmesan cheese
  • salt (to taste)
  • 1/2 lb fettuccine (or any other favorite pasta)

Directions

  1. 1

    Start cooking pasta according to the package instructions, if you're serving these scallops with pasta. Cook it at the same time as scallops and sauce, strain, and set aside.

  2. 2

    Rinse off scallops with cold water and pat each one dry with a paper towel. If there are any scallops that have the side muscle attached, simply remove it. (Side muscle cooks tough and it’s unpleasant to eat.)

  3. 3

    Preheat a cooking pan first over medium-high heat. Add olive oil and let it heat through until you start to see a little smoke (it should take less than a minute).

  4. 4

    Turn the heat down to medium and melt butter in the same pan where you cooked the scallops.