Scallops With Seaweed Butter
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 8 large fresh sea scallops
- 8 tablespoons rock salt
- 1⁄4 sheet nori, finely chopped to make 8 pinches
- 1⁄2 lime
- sea salt
- ground red chili pepper (piment d'espelette) or fresh black pepper
directions
- Arrange 8 clean scallop shells or gratin dishes on baking sheets. Using pastry brush and about 2 tbsp of butter brush each scallop with butter. Set 1 scallop in shell, refrigerate until the butter has firmed on th e scallop, 10 - 15 minutes. Preheat Boiler to High.
- Neatly mound 2 tbsp rock salt, spacing well apart on large plates. Remove scallops from refrigerator and sprinkle each with a pinch of nori. Dot with remaining 2 tbsp butter. Broil until scallops are barely cooked through, about 3 minutes.
- Transfer scallop shells to plates, nestling each into a mound of salt. Sprinkle with lime juice as desired and season with sea salt and piment d'Espelette to taste. Serve immediately.
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