If weather forces your summer parties indoor here’s a nice seafood dish you can cook without grilling. This week sea scallops puttanesca is What’s Cooking.
Sea Scallops Puttanesca
Ingredients
- 8 large dry fresh sea scallops
- vegetable oil
- salt
Sauce
- tspn extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon chopped garlic
- touch of anchovy
- tspn small capers
- 1 cup Italian peeled plum tomatoes, broken up
- pinch of fresh basil
- touch of dry chile
- salt to taste
Sea Scallops
- Lightly salt the scallops
- Heat oil in saute pan until barely smoking
- sear the scallops 1 minute per side, until golden brown
Puttanesca Sauce
- saute garlic with capers add anchovy
- add the tomatoes
- bring to a boil, stirring so it doesn’t stick and burn
- simmer 10 minutes
- finish with Basil and hot pepper to your taste
- salt to taste
Assemble
- spoon sauce on bottom of plate, not too much
- assemble scallops on top
- finish with more sauce and basil chiffonade