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🍽️ Pan-seared Scallops in Creamy Mushroom Sauce
200 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 250 g scallop meat
- 125 g button mushrooms
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 2 spring onions
- 1 chili pepper
- salt
- pepper
- 1 tbsp butter
- 150 g whipping cream
Instructions
- 1. Rinse the scallop meat under cold water and let it drain well.
- 2. Clean the mushrooms and slice them thinly.
- 3. Drizzle the mushroom slices with lemon juice.
- 4. Wash the spring onions thoroughly.
- 5. Cut the white part of the spring onions into fine rings.
- 6. Cut the green part of the spring onions lengthwise into thin strips.
- 7. Halve the chili pepper lengthwise and remove the seeds.
- 8. Wash the chili pepper and chop it finely.
- 9. Cut the white muscle pieces of the scallops in half crosswise.
- 10. Leave the orange roe sac (corail) of the scalps whole.
- 11. Pat the scallop meat dry with kitchen paper.
- 12. Season the scallop meat with salt and pepper.
- 13. Heat a pan and melt the butter in it.
- 14. Fry the scallop muscles for about 1 minute on each side over medium heat.
- 15. Remove the fried scallops from the pan and set them aside.
- 16. Fry the mushrooms in the same pan until the released juice has evaporated.
- 17. Stir the spring onion rings and the chopped chili into the mushrooms.
- 18. Simmer the mixture for about 5 minutes.
- 19. Pour the cream into the pan.
- 20. Let the sauce reduce by about one third.
- 21. Return the scallops (muscles and corail) to the hot sauce.
- 22. Let the scallop meat warm through in the sauce.
- 23. Finally, adjust the sauce to taste with salt and pepper.
- 24. Plate the scallops on small plates.
- 25. Garnish the dish with the green spring onion strips.
- 26. Serve the dish best with freshly toasted white bread.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 200
- Protein: 12 g · Fett/Fat: 15 g · Carbs: 4 g