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Ingredients
for
8
Fried Scallops with Spicy Pesto
15 min., ready in 17 min.
Time:
91
calories
Calories:
Health Score:
93 / 100
Ingredientsfor
- Ingredients
- 8 Scallop
- 1 green chili pepper
- 1 handful parsley
- 2 fresh garlic cloves
- 1 Tbsp grated Parmesan
- 4 Tbsps olive oil
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- Sea salt
- pink Peppercorns
- freshly ground peppers
Preparation
1.
Open scallop shells, rinse, trim as needed, remove meat from shells and pat dry. Rinse eight shell halves thoroughly and pat dry.
2.
Rinse chile pepper, trim and cut into pieces. Rinse parsley, shake dry and pluck leaves from stem. Peel garlic and puree in a blender together with parsley, Parmesan, 2-3 tablespoons oil, lemon juice and chile pepper and season with salt.
3.
Heat remaining oil in a pan and fry scallops on both sides for approximately 1 minute each until golden brown. Spread parsley mixture over plates, place a shell on top place a scallop in shell and season with pink pepper, black pepper and sea salt. Drizzle with remaining sauce if required.
Nutritional values
1 piece contains
(Percentage of daily recommendation)
(Percentage of daily recommendation)
| Calorie | 91 cal. | (4 %) | ||
| Protein | 6 g | (6 %) | ||
| Fat | 6 g | (5 %) | ||
| Carbohydrates | 4 g | (3 %) | ||
| Sugar added | 0 g | (0 %) | ||
| Roughage | 0.2 g | (1 %) |