Cycle 3 – Item 177

30 (Sat) June 2012

Scallops & Mushrooms in Butter-Shallot Sauce

3.5

by me

at home

-Oksu, Seongdong, Seoul, Republic of Korea-

solo

While I’ve pan-seared scallops before and used the juices as the basis for a butter-enhanced sauce (see for example 2.154 Pan-Seared Scallops and Chicory Leaves in a Butter-Gin Reduction), the technique of incorporating shallots to the mix, plus maybe scallions and garlic, as here, and finishing with parsley is relatively new to me, though I can no longer imagine doing it any other way.

Very very close to perfection.  It just needed a bit more of … je ne sais quois.  Perhaps with pasta, it could’ve been 4.0.

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