Scallop, Prosciutto, and Mâche Salad |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 0 Minutes |
Ready In: 0 Minutes Servings: 1 |
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Serve this party-worthy salad as soon as you make it-the tender mâche wilts fast. Ingredients:
16 large dry-packed sea scallops*; pull off the tough slender muscle from the side of each |
3 tablespoons grapeseed or canola oil |
about 3/4 tsp. kosher salt, divided |
2 tablespoons meyer lemon zest or 1 tbsp. regular lemon zest |
3 tablespoons meyer lemon juice or 2 tbsp. regular lemon juice |
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil |
1 1/2 cups fresh or thawed frozen green peas |
2 qts. (3.5 oz.) loosely packed mâche or mesclun |
2 ounces prosciutto, torn into pieces |
Directions:
1. Pat scallops dry. Heat a large frying pan (not nonstick) over high heat until a drop of water sizzles when flicked onto it. Add grapeseed oil, then scallops; season with 1/4 tsp. salt. Sauté scallops without moving them until browned and easily turned, 3 minutes. Turn and brown other side, 2 minutes. Transfer to a plate.
2. Whisk lemon zest and juice with olive oil and 1/2 tsp. salt.
3. Cook peas in a saucepan of salted boiling water until just tender, 2 minutes for fresh, 30 seconds for frozen; drain and rinse with cold water.
4. Toss mâche, peas, and prosciutto with 2 tbsp. dressing. Arrange on a platter with scallops. Drizzle with dressing to taste and serve immediately.
5. *Dry-packed sea scallops smell fresh and are slightly sticky with no liquid oozing from them; find them at good seafood shops.
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