Scallops in Champagne Sauce
"From Cooking Light January 2007"
photo by FLKeysJen
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 1⁄2 lbs sea scallops
- 1 cup sliced shiitake mushroom caps (about 4 ounces)
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons chopped shallots
- 1⁄2 cup champagne or 1/2 cup sparkling wine
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon dried tarragon
- 1⁄4 cup reduced-fat sour cream
directions
- Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat.
- Pat scallops dry with a paper towel.
- Add scallops to pan; cook 3 minutes on each side or until done. Remove from pan; keep warm.
- Add mushrooms and shallots to pan; sauté 3 minutes or until liquid evaporates and mushrooms darken.
- Stir in Champagne, mustard, salt, and tarragon, scraping pan to loosen browned bits.
- Remove from heat; stir in sour cream.
- Serve with scallops.
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Reviews
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Loved the delicious sauce which tastes buttery and rich without all the fat. It's quite thin and there's lots of it...this is crying out for some noodles to soak it up! Instead of 24 oz scallops/4 oz shitakes I used 16 oz scallops/8 oz baby bellas since I love mushrooms and it was perfect.
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Vino Girl
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My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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