Lemon butter scallops
Lemon butter scallops

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, lemon butter scallops. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Lemon butter scallops is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Lemon butter scallops is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

Stir in lemon juice; season with salt and pepper, to taste. Serve scallops immediately with lemon butter sauce, garnished with parsley, if desired. Gently turn the scallops over and add the Lemon Butter, basting the scallops by gently spooning the melting butter over.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have lemon butter scallops using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon butter scallops:
  1. Take 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
  2. Prepare 1 pound scallops
  3. Get to taste Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper,
  4. Get For the lemon butter sauce:
  5. Prepare 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
  6. Make ready 2 cloves garlic, minced
  7. Get Juice of 1 lemon
  8. Prepare to taste Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper,
  9. Get 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves

Lemon butter sauteed scallops is one of the best scallop recipes, with lemon butter sauce, garlic and bay scallops. Mince the parsley and garlic and set aside. With so many shrimp recipes on this site, it was high time I gave the mic over to scallops. And what a recipe to kick us off!

Steps to make Lemon butter scallops:
  1. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a large skillet over medium high heat.
  2. Remove the small side muscle from the scallops, rinse with cold water and thoroughly! pat dry.
  3. Season scallops with salt and pepper, to taste. Working in batches, add scallops to the skillet in a single layer and cook, flipping once, until golden brown and translucent in the center, about 1-2 minutes per side. Set aside and keep warm.
  4. To make the lemon butter sauce, melt 2 tablespoons butter in the skillet. Add garlic and cook, stirring frequently, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in lemon juice; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
  5. Serve scallops immediately with lemon butter sauce, garnished with parsley, if desired.
  6. Pair with rice or pasta.

You have all been writing in telling us how much you loved this Garlic Butter Shrimp Scampi recipe and this Lemon Garlic Butter Shrimp recipe. Both are so similar to how we cook scallops, I had to share this one with you in time for Good Friday! Scallops seem sophisticated and special, but the truth is scallops are so simple to prepare. They are naturally sweet and creamy, and only need a little seasoning and a sear in a hot pan with butter to make them shine. Scallops are best when cooked simple in a lemon butter garlic sauce as in this recipe.

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