Make it a fancy dinner night with this nutrient packed recipe!
Did you know you can enjoy a delicious scallop dish without having to eat at a fancy restaurant? Are you bored with salmon and tuna like I was? You’ve landed on the perfect easy scallop recipe!
Scallops contain magnesium and potassium to keep your heart healthy and are beneficial to us runners. Both nutrients play a role in relaxing your blood vessels, helping decrease your blood pressure and prevent heart disease.
I never cooked scallops at home before and wanted to expand my palate since the types of fish I’ve cooked are limited. I grabbed my chef’s hat and apron, put on some Italian cooking music and got to work.
Follow this recipe for 2 servings.
Ingredients:
- 12 raw scallops, frozen or thawed
- 2 cups of spinach, washed
- ½ cup of sliced mushrooms
- 1 cup of brown rice
- 2 ½ cups bone broth
- Garlic salt and black pepper
- Coconut oil
Instructions:
- If scallops are frozen, soak in water for 30 minutes to defrost
- In a small pot, add 2 cups of bone broth. When boiling add 1 cup of brown rice and cook to rice instructions.
- When scallops are defrosted, dry with paper towel. Add garlic salt and black pepper to all sides of scallops.
- In an iron skillet, add 2 hefty tablespoons of coconut oil to coat the bottom of the pan. Turn on to a little less than medium heat to so scallops won’t splash in the coconut oil.
- I used an iron skillet but a regular pan will work just fine as long as all scallops fit in the pan.
- Add scallops one by one, spacing apart about an inch so they can cook evenly.
- They should start sizzling so be careful of splashing coconut oil
- When scallops start turning light golden brown on one side, flip over one by one and cook the other side.
- After flipping scallops, get out another pan. Add ½ cup of bone broth, mushrooms and spinach. Cook until spinach to desired texture.
- When scallops are golden brown on both sides, you can start plaiting.
- You can plait anyway you want but I added a bed of rice, then spinach and mushroom mix, then scallops on top. Enjoy!