Scallops. Cooking recipe with photos step by step

For Valentine's Day and, in general, for the lucky ones for whom this condition lasts permanently - a light, gourmet aphrodisiac dish. Scallops are the perfect recipe for a romantic dinner and just a feast for the belly. Now I'll tell you why.

The brilliant idea that reveals the beauty and meaning of the recipe is that the scallops are baked in their own beautiful shell. This dish from the menu of a fish restaurant can be easily prepared at home in the oven, and even frozen scallops are suitable for the recipe.

Do you know what the main feature of the dish is and why it is considered romantic? And the whole point is that the goddess of love and beauty Aphrodite (in Greek), aka Venus (in Roman) appeared to the world on the glorious island of Cyprus from the sea and sailed to the shore precisely on the shell of a giant scallop! Remember Botticelli's painting "The Birth of Venus"? Do you recognize the watercraft?

I can’t resist, I’m posting for you a photo of that same Aphrodite Bay - a magical place. You know, if you find a stone shaped like a heart on the shore, and swim once around the small rock of Aphrodite, making a wish, then it seems to come true. By the way, in 2021 the city of Paphos, near which this legendary bay is located, was declared the European Capital of Culture, and it was thanks to Aphrodite. So everything is serious.

I promise you - baked scallops in their shells are a dish that 100% turns out right the first time and 1000% works as the perfect accompaniment to a declaration of love!

How to cook frozen

Most often, scallops are found frozen on supermarket shelves.

In order not to spoil the exquisite seafood product, you should defrost it under natural conditions.

Expert opinion: a four hundred gram package of shellfish (even in the flap) is completely defrosted at room temperature within an hour.

In case of emergency (hurry), you can use thawing in cold water. Boiling water and a microwave oven destroy the delicate structure of the delicacy.

In Korean

Asian cuisine has long earned its popularity in the cuisines of the CIS countries. This is due to the spiciness and originality of the dishes that it offers. Korean scallops have several variations of their recipe. We present to your attention one that has a small and affordable list of products and will be an excellent appetizer at any buffet table, banquet or family gathering.

Ingredients:

• soy sauce – 50 g;
• sugar – 25 g;
• garlic – 5 cloves;
• scallop – 460 g;
• oil for frying.

Cooking method:

1. Mix soy sauce and water at room temperature in equal parts, add sugar and stir until it dissolves.
2. Chop the garlic very finely and fry until golden in a frying pan.
3. Pour the mixture over the shellfish fillets and place in a steam bath for 5 minutes.
4. Add oil and garlic. You can sprinkle with onion, chopped into half rings.

Baked scallops

How to properly defrost scallops: tips

It is forbidden to defrost any seafood, including scallops, using radical methods: pouring boiling water over it and defrosting it in the microwave. How to properly defrost scallops? Here are the tips:

• Remove the product from the freezer and place it in a bowl and place it on a shelf in the refrigerator.
• When the scallops begin to thaw, you can put them on the table.

Once completely thawed, you can start cooking. about 5 hours for such a product to defrost . If you don't have time to wait that long, you can put the bag in cold water. This will help defrost the scallops within an hour. But at the same time they will not lose their taste. So, let's start cooking. Choose one of the recipes below to make a delicious dish. Read on.

The simplest recipe

Bacon-wrapped scallops cooked in the oven retain all their beneficial substances. Thus, 100 g of product contains 150 times more iodine than the same amount of beef. It is also a leader in protein content and vitamin B12, which is responsible for the normal functioning of the nervous system. Cooking scallops does not take long - only 20 minutes.

Bacon Wrapped Scallops is the easiest recipe to make.

For these purposes, it is necessary to use the “grill” mode and use a roasting rack.

What ingredients will you need?

The simplest preparation requires only 2 ingredients:

• 0.5 kg fresh or frozen scallops.
• 0.5 kg raw smoked bacon (in strips).

You also need to prepare toothpicks.

Step-by-step cooking process

Cooking a dish consists of the following steps:

1. Thaw scallops completely.
2. Rinse the defrosted seafood and dry well.
3. Cut the bacon into strips.
4. Place the scallops into the prepared bacon strips and roll them into a roll shape.
5. Secure the formed rolls with a toothpick.
6. Place the prepared rolls in the oven on a wire rack (if there is no wire rack, they can be placed on a baking sheet lined with parchment).
7. Bake scallops for 20 minutes until golden brown.

Serving rules, decoration

It is recommended to serve scallops hot immediately after cooking. Their taste is well emphasized by lemon, so thin slices of the fruit can be served with the dish. Scallops are also an ideal appetizer for dry white wine and champagne.

Pickled

You can safely experiment with marinades, giving them your favorite accents. You can marinate scallops with vinegar, lemon, cream, soy sauce, oriental seasonings, and wine. You can come up with your own cooking method, combining different products and achieving the perfect taste. It is very important to select spices so as not to overwhelm the taste of the main component.

• balsamic vinegar – 40 g;
• ground or grated ginger – 30 g;
• cilantro – 1/5 bunch;
• olive oil – 30 g;
• large scallops – 9 pcs.;
• garlic – 0.5 cloves.

1. Mix vinegar and oil together. Finely chop the garlic, chop the ginger, and tear the cilantro with your hands.
2. Pour a mixture of oil and vinegar over the shellfish, add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
3. Leave in a cool place for an hour and a half, then serve.

Salad

Good compatibility with foods has made shellfish a popular component of many different dishes. You can find a salad with scallops on the Internet or come up with it yourself. Relying on the taste preferences of your household. The main key to successful preparation of a dish will be compliance with the proportions of the ingredients and a tasty dressing that emphasizes the notes of the main ingredient.

Ingredients:

• scallop meat – 400 g;
• cherry tomatoes – 6 pcs.;
• parmesan – 100 g;
• lemon juice, olive oil for sauce;
• any available greens.

Cooking method:

1. Process the shellfish. Separate them from the shell.
2. Cut the tomatoes into halves. Grate the cheese on the fine part of a grater.
3. Mix all the products, add vegetable oil and lemon juice.
4. Sprinkle with chopped herbs and stir.

Baked scallops with shrimp and pear “Sea Fantasy”.

Category: Snacks

11 ingredients

Wash the seafood and grate the parmesan.

Cut the scallops lengthwise into 2 parts.

Fry shrimp and scallops in olive oil, add spices and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice.

Peel and core the pear.

Cut it into thin slices.

Melt butter in a frying pan, add granulated sugar, honey, lemon juice and simmer the pear in this mixture.

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tags: shrimp sauce homemade cheese simple

Soup

A tasty and healthy dish originally from Thailand. Scallop soup will surprise you with its exoticism and will allow all guests to plunge into the world of unknown Thai cuisine with its unusual, but delicious elements. The ingredients are difficult to find on the shelves of regular supermarkets, but the effect of this dish is so amazing that the cook will not regret the time spent.

Ingredients:

• coconut milk – 700 ml;
• shrimp and scallop – 300 g each;
• carrots – 2 pcs.;
• ginger root – 40 g;
• garlic – 35 g;
• lime – 1 pc.;
• chives - 1 fruit;
• glass noodles – 80 g;
• olive oil - a couple of tablespoons.

Cooking method:

1. Finely chop the carrots, onions and garlic, heat the oil in a frying pan, squeeze out the lime juice. Place all prepared foods there.
2. Mix coconut milk with water and bring to a boil, add shrimp.
3. Add scallops to the pan. Fry for 2 minutes.
4. Pour the contents of the frying pan into boiling milk, add noodles, cook for another 5 minutes.
5. Garnish the finished soup with herbs and serve.

Preparation

To cook scallops properly, they need to be prepared correctly. Don't rush to defrost. No, God forgive me, microwave. No shock defrosting! Everything should be delicate - defrost in advance on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. This way you will preserve the juiciness of the scallops.

Look, here is a defrosted scallop with caviar. This is such a handsome guy, but there is one thing - pay attention, in the upper right corner of the photo you can see the intestine, which must be removed so as not to disturb the idyll of a romantic evening. This does not affect the taste, your significant other will not notice anything suspicious, but I would still advise you to approach the matter responsibly and remove the excess.

The intestine is removed simply - just pick it up with your fingers and pull it out carefully. And you will get such a clean comb. It's a completely different matter.

Creamed clams

There are several ways to cook frozen scallops in cream sauce. The following one seemed most successful to us. For half a kilogram of muscle, take a large onion, finely chop it and fry almost completely. Place garlic on the frying pan - three crushed or otherwise crushed cloves. When the frying gives aroma, the heat is increased and the washed and drained scallops are added. They need to be simmered while stirring for three to five minutes (the time depends on the number of shellfish). Even if there are a lot of them, you shouldn’t cook them longer - they will become like rubber. It's better to fry in batches. Half a glass of heavy cream is poured in, an incomplete dessert spoon of grated cheese is poured in and the fire is turned on. In five minutes your delicacy is ready. The original recipe suggests using Parmesan. However, it has been experimentally established that the ordinary Russian one is no worse. All that remains is to add parsley. If you have it fresh, chop it and add it when you turn off the heat. If dried, add at the same time as cream and cheese.

Champagne sauce

Category: Drinks

6 ingredients 1 hour 0 min

Let's start by heating the water. This is necessary in order to scald the tomatoes. Then the skin will come off easier. In general, you don’t need to put tomatoes in champagne sauce. But we will have just such an option.

So, the tomatoes boiled for a minute. We take them out of the water. Carefully remove the skin from them with a sharp knife. We put them in a blender and puree them. Juice scene...

tags: dairy products cream drinks sauces

Peppers baked with scallops

With lime and chili

The Lime and Chili Scallops will take no more than ten minutes to prepare.
Classic gourmet cooking when you don’t have enough time for kitchen fuss. Prepare:

1. rinse the clams and dry them on paper towels;
2. finely chop the onion;
3. crush a clove of garlic;
4. Grate ginger and lime zest;
5. Remove seeds from the chili pod and cut into strips;
6. Heat oil in a frying pan, add garlic and ginger. Simmer for one minute;
7. add green onions to the flavored oil and quickly simmer with chili strips;
8. Place scallops in a frying pan and cook over high heat for 7 minutes;
9. As a finishing touch, add lime zest and juice to the pan.
10. Serve with the spicy butter formed in the pan.

Ingredients (one serving):

• 180 g scallops;
• butter: 50 g;
• one clove of garlic;
• ginger: 10 g;
• a bunch of green onions;
• one chili pepper;
• one lime;
• salt and pepper: to taste.

Calorie content of 100 g of dish: 190 kcal. BZHU: 12/11/13.

Video

Step 1: open and process the shells.

Closed sinks need to be thoroughly rinsed to remove sand; you can even use a brush for this. In order to be able to use the opened scallop shells in the future, they must be opened very carefully. There are 2 ways
to open shells.
First.
Place the washed sink on your palm with the convex side down, use a strong knife to pry the flaps in the area of ​​the “lock” (the protruding rectangular part of the sink) and smoothly open the shell flaps.
Second.
Place clean shells on a baking sheet and place in the oven for a few minutes over low heat. The sinks will open on their own. Next, carefully remove the meat from the convex part with a spoon and place it in a bowl. Throw away the flat part of the shell. We will bake the scallops in the convex part of the shell. To do this, they need to be thoroughly washed to remove shellfish juice and left on a waffle or paper towel to dry.

Step 2: clean and fry the scallop meat.

We clean the scallops removed from their shells from films and juice so that only a homogeneous transparent body of the mollusk remains. Wash the meat thoroughly and dry it lightly on a towel. Meanwhile. Place a non-stick frying pan on the fire and pour vegetable oil into it for frying. As soon as the oil in the frying pan is hot, pour the scallop meat into it, add a little salt on top and sprinkle with ground curry. Fry over fairly high heat for 4-5 minutes,
stirring constantly, until a golden brown crust forms. Place the finished scallops in a colander to drain excess oil. Then place the still hot scallops on a plate and sprinkle with the juice of half a lemon.

Step 3: Prepare the butter-cheese mixture.

Three hard cheeses on a fine grater. Chop the parsley as finely as possible. Place softened butter, grated hard cheese and chopped herbs in a deep bowl. Add salt and ground black pepper to taste. Stir until smooth.

Step 4: Bake the scallops.

Place the dried convex parts of the shells on a baking sheet so that there is a distance of at least two centimeters between them. Place a fried scallop in each shell. Cover the top of the clams with a cap of butter and cheese mixture. Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 200 degrees
. Baking time – until the cheese crust forms a golden brown. Remove the finished scallops from the oven and let cool slightly.

Step 5: Serve scallop baked with cheese.

To serve the scallops to the table, take a large serving dish and place the shells with the finished casseroles on it.
If desired, the dish can be decorated with slices of the remaining half lemon, parsley leaves and drops of hot sauce. For this recipe, a spicy tomato sauce like Chili or Gazpacho is most suitable. Drinks are traditionally served chilled white wine or mineral water. Bon appetit!!! If you were unable to get scallops in shells, you can replace the shells with tartlets or slices of dried dark bread.

If you take frozen scallops, then it is correct to defrost them under natural conditions or, in extreme cases, in cold water.

The easiest way to check the readiness of shellfish meat is by observing their color. As soon as the meat becomes completely opaque, the scallops are ready. If you overcook or overcook them, they will become hard and tasteless. On average, the heat treatment time for shellfish is about 5 minutes.

To make it easier to grate the cheese, you need to put it in the freezer for about half an hour.

A bivalve mollusk that is popular all over the world is the scallop. This very healthy and nutritious product contains a large amount of protein and is superior to many meat products. It has a pleasant, delicate taste and sweet aftertaste.

Scallops are a delicacy that, when done correctly, turns out not only tasty, but also very tender. For preparation you will need a minimum of ingredients and time.

Ingredients:

• scallop – 6 pcs.;
• butter – 12 g;
• salt;
• black pepper.

Preparation:

It is better to defrost a seafood product in natural conditions, transferring it to the refrigerator from the freezer. But if you don’t have time, you can use cold water to place the scallops. Do not use hot water or a microwave oven.

1. Rinse and dry the product. Use a paper towel. Season with salt and pepper on all sides.
2. Heat the frying pan. Add olive oil; when hot, add butter. Warm up. Place scallops. During frying, make sure that the scallops do not touch.
3. Wait until the liquid has completely evaporated, then fry until golden brown. As soon as the crust appears, remove from heat, otherwise they will become rubbery and hard.
4. Turn over and fry for two minutes.

Baked escalope

Category: Main dishes> Meat dishes

8 ingredients

We fry the escalopes in a frying pan in a small amount of oil. Add salt and pepper while frying. Fry for literally 1 minute on each side, over a fairly live fire. Our goal is not for the escalopes to get fried. The goal is for a crust to form on both sides, which will prevent the escalopes from drying out in the oven. And the meat will remain juicy inside.

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tags: hot bake

Cooking in a frying pan

Sea scallops are very tasty when fried; many true gourmets claim that they are much tastier than boiled. They are quite easy to prepare. Thawed clams are dried with a paper towel and transferred to a deep dish. 500 g of shellfish are poured with 4-5 tablespoons of vegetable oil, salted, peppered and left in this marinade for half an hour. At the end of the specified time, the scallops are placed in a frying pan with hot vegetable oil and fried for two minutes on both sides.

Sesame seeds are dried in another frying pan - they are sprinkled on the cooked scallops, and freshly squeezed lemon juice is poured on top of the dish. Keep in mind that shellfish are quite easy to overcook if left on the stove for too long.

The indicated time is calculated for a whole scallop; if you are dealing with chopped sea creatures, then reduce the frying time. Fried scallops are served hot, as they are not as appetizing when cooled.