Spiced Scallops in Potato Jackets with Summer Salsa

Name: Spiced Scallops in Potato Jackets with Summer Salsa
Ingredients: lime juice and coriander leaves; oil for frying; grapeseed or sunflower oil; grapeseed or sunflower oil; 1 onion, peeled and chopped; a little plain flour or potato flour; lime juice and coriander leaves; ½ mango; 2 peaches; 1 or 2 red chillies; 2 teaspoons ground cumin; 12 medium-size scallops; a little plain flour or potato flour; 2 or 3 very large potatoes, elongated rather than rounded, and peeled; ½ teaspoon ground black pepper; ½ teaspoon fine salt

Preparation info

Serves
4 to 6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Modern Classics

By Frances Bissell

Published 2000

About

Ingredients

12 medium-size scallops
2 teaspoons ground cumin
½ teaspoon

Main course
Summer

Method

Remove and discard the muscle pad and the intestine, which runs round the white part of the scallop. Cut off the orange part, and put to one side. Mix the seasoning, and use to season the scallop, both parts. Cut long thin slices from the whole potatoes, discarding the curved top and bottom slices. The slices should be not much more than the thickness of a twenty-pence piece. Fold one potato sl