Stir-Fried Scallops and Broccoli

If you love scallops, be sure to try this scallop and broccoli stir-fry. It's loaded with fresh vegetables and sweet tender scallops. 

 

Along with broccoli, this stir fry includes fresh yellow squash, canned baby corn, and snow peas to round out the vegetable goodness. You can prepare it in a wok or, if you don't have a wok, a large skillet. 

Bacon-Wrapped Scallops in the Air Fryer

Bacon and scallops are such a delicious combination. The smoky bacon and the sweet scallops go so well together. 

These little bacon and scallop packages are delicious as a simple appetizer or main course. They are also wonderful for topping a salad for lunch or dinner. 

Italian Seafood Salad (Insalata di Mare)

This Italian Seafood Salad is often served as a first course on Christmas Eve within Italian American Families.

This Italian seafood salad (also called Insalata di Mare or Frutti di Mare) is really special. It's loaded with shrimp, scallops, calamari, and mussels, all poached in a mixture of white wine and Old Bay seasoning, and then dressed in a sauce of some of the reserved poaching liquid, limoncello. lemon juice, tomatoes, and olive oil.

Yuzu Kosho Grilled Scallops with Onion Salad

Yuzu Kosho Grilled Scallops are such a tangy, spicy, and juicy treat, and are wonderful paired with a tasty onion salad with soy sauce and bonito. 

You marinate these scallops in a mixture of yuzu kosho sauce, soy sauce, and olive oil for just a few minutes, and then grill the scallops for just 2 to 3 minutes a side for an easy and delicious treat.

Baked Scallops in Olive, Sun Dried Tomato, and Basil Butter

These Baked Scallops in Olive, Sun Dried Tomato, and Basil Butter are about the easiest and foolproof way to prepare scallops.

Baking scallops in butter just brings out the sweetness of sea scallops.

Grilled Scallop Kebabs with Duck Bacon

You must try these grilled scallop kebabs and duck bacon with a finishing glaze of soy and oyster sauce served with grilled vegetable kebabs of corn, zucchini, and red onions.

These grilled scallop kebabs with duck bacon are so sweet and succulent. Duck bacon you ask? Oh my yes!

Potato and Carrot Chowder with Scallops

This Potato and Carrot Chowder with Scallops is a wonderful combination of seafood and root vegetables. 

This Potato and Carrot Chowder with Scallops is creamy, warming, and delicious. It's pretty much one of my new favorite soups. We had this soup with a salad for a light dinner, and it was perfect.

Alaskan Seafood Bubbly Bake

This Seafood Bubbly Bake, with halibut, crab, scallops, and shrimp, is so creamy and flavorful. 

This Alaskan Seafood Bubbly Bake is now one of my favorite recipes on this blog. This says a lot, because I luuurve all of the recipes I've posted here (well, maybe some of the baguettes and that darn pain de beaucaire have caused some frustration, but they were still tasty).

Sea Scallops with a Jalapeño and Grapefruit Marinade

These Sea Scallops with a Jalapeño and Grapefruit Marinade are so sweet, tender, and succulent. 

These scallops were fresh, meaty, and dry, meaning they weren't soaked in phosphates to help them stay moist. Both kinds of scallops are perfectly fine, but the dry scallops are much easier to brown and develop a crust.

Seared Scallop Salad with Toasted Sesame Seed Ginger Vinaigrette

This Seared Scallop Salad with Toasted Sesame Seed Ginger Vinaigrette is the perfect summer dinner.

I love scallops. They are so rich tasting, yet they are actually very light! They require very little prep, and are ready in minutes.

Taiwanese Style Stir-Fried Scallops and Shrimp with Chives | Wok Wednesdays

This Taiwanese Style Stir-Fried Scallops and Shrimp with Chives dish is so succulent and rich tasting, yet the ingredient list is so simple!

As is typical for Wok Wednesdays, making this stir-fry required a trip to the Asian market for one ingredient I did not have, yellow chives. Neither did the market. Gah!

Velvet Orange Scallops | Wok Wednesdays

This is a pretty simple stir fry with fairly easy to find ingredients. The most complicated step is "velveting" the scallops in advance of preparing the dish. Velveting results in moist, succulent proteins. It is accomplished by a brief marinade in egg whites, corn starch, and some liquid, in this case rice wine. With this recipe, the scallops are also simmered for a few seconds in water and a bit of oil to partially cook them.

Usually my kitchen looks like a hurricane hit it after I've prepared a stir fry, but with this dish, I had a chance to clean up a bit while the scallops were marinating.

The thing about stir frying is, that once you get started, it goes by FAST! For example, "add the ginger and garlic.. stir fry 10 seconds..." I think this stir fry took about 2 minutes. It's all in the prep and mise en place.

We had a discussion on the Wok Wednesdays Facebook page about this and everybody had some great hints, including doing all of the prep work in advance and storing it in little bowls in the refrigerator earlier in the day. I like to break down the steps in the recipe into micro steps and write them out individually in large print so that I can see exactly what I have to do next without finding my place in the book.

This scallop dish is so rich and luxurious tasting. It also includes carrots, scallions, some crushed red pepper, along with the usual cast of characters (soy sauce, rice wine, rice vinegar, ginger, and garlic). Perfect for Chinese New Year.

It also calls for the zest of a whole orange, but I used the zest of a tangelo because I have so many ripe ones on the tree in our backyard. It worked beautifully.

This recipe is on page 157 of Grace Young's Stir Frying to the Sky's Edge. If you are interested in making some of the best Chinese food that you will every taste, get this book.

Now about the mess in my kitchen....

Stir-Fried Chili Scallops with Baby Bok Choy | Wok Wednesdays

This is a meal that you can prepare when you get home from work and are too tired to cook. The ingredients don't require a lot of prep, and you can have this on the table within minutes.