Description
Seared Scallops with Fava Bean Purée sure sounds formal and perhaps even complicated but I promise you it’s neither.
Ingredients
Scale
Purée:
- 1 cup fava beans, shelled
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided
- 3 garlic scapes, chopped (or 2 garlic cloves minced)
- 1 tablespoon water
- Salt & pepper, to taste
Scallops:
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1 pound sea scallops
- Black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
Instructions
- In a pot of boiling water, add the fava beans. Boil for 1 minute, drain and throw into a bowl of ice water. Cool until you can hold with your hands and pop beans out of their thick skin. Discard skins.
- In a large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil. Sauté the fava beans for 5 minutes. Add garlic scapes and cook for another 3 minutes.
- In a food processor or blender, place fava beans, garlic scapes and oil from pan. Blend together, adding additional 1 tablespoon olive oil slowly. Add 1 tablespoon water and blend until thoroughly mixed. Set aside, keeping sauce in blender.
- In same skillet, heat butter and pan sear scallops, 3 – 4 minutes per side, adding black pepper to each scallop side. Remove from heat and remove scallops from pan. Pour liquid from pan into blender and blend into fava bean sauce.
- To serve, spoon fava bean sauce onto each serving plate and place scallops on top. Sprinkle each dish with smoked paprika.