Scallops with Roast Tomatoes, Thyme & Garlic

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Preparation info
  • Ingredients For

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Quaglino's: The Cook Book

By Richard Whittington and Martin Webb

Published 1995

  • About

Scallops hardly need any cooking if their sweet and expensive flesh is not to become unpleasantly chewy The simplest treatment shows them in their best light and in this dish they are briefly seared and served with roast tomatoes, thyme and garlic.

Ask your fishmonger to open and clean the scallops for you as this is quite a tricky task. Never use frozen scallops; their delicate meat is ruined and you end up paying a lot of money for watery and tasteless rubber discs. Far better to