Sautéed scallops with mushrooms & spinach sauce
A quick, impressive dish that's easy to prepare and cook, creating stacks of flavour within minutes
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Difficulty and servings
Serves 2
Preperation and cooking times
Prep 10 mins
Cook 5 mins
- Melt a knob of butter in a frying pan. Once sizzling, add the mushrooms and fry for just a min or two before adding the spinach. Cook on a high heat for about 1 min, allowing the leaves to wilt and soften. Drain the leaves and mushrooms in a sieve or small colander set over a bowl, pressing them gently in the sieve to release the juices (the juices will provide the base for the sauce, so don't discard them). Keep warm to one side.
- Heat the oil in a separate clean frying pan. When very hot, add the scallops. Sauté for a couple of mins without disturbing them at all, then add a knob of butter to the pan. Turn the scallops, season with salt and pepper, then baste with the sizzling butter. Continue to cook for a further couple of mins until the scallops are ready.
- While sautéing the scallops, return the saved spinach juices to the pan the spinach and mushrooms were cooked in, then whisk in the remaining knob of butter to create the sauce. Season with salt and pepper and a grating of nutmeg.
- Now finish in style: Arrange spinach and mushrooms on plates or in bowls, sit the scallops on top, then spoon the nutmeg spinach sauce around.
Adding flavours
A squeeze of lemon or lime juice can be added to the butter sauce. Or wholegrain mustard; just ½-1 tsp, can be whisked into the sauce to replace the nutmeg.
Cooking scallops
Don't pre-season the scallops before cooking as the salt draws the moisture out of them and gives them a tight texture. It is best to season with salt once they have been sealed in the pan.
Per serving
264 kcalories, protein 25g, carbohydrate 2g, fat 18 g, saturated fat 9g, fibre 2g, salt 1.59 g
Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2006.

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Difficulty and servings
Serves 2
Preperation and cooking times
Prep 10 mins
Cook 5 mins
So quick to prepare
Ingredients
- 3 big knobs of butter
- 100g mushrooms , sliced (button, chestnut or cleaned wild)
- 100g spinach , stems trimmed and washed
- 2 tsp groundnut oil
- 6 good-sized scallops , shelled and cleaned (with or without corals)
- nutmeg , for grating
Per serving
264 kcalories, protein 25g, carbohydrate 2g, fat 18 g, saturated fat 9g, fibre 2g, salt 1.59 g


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