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Scallops and bacon with spring onion mash

Scallops and bacon with spring onion mash

Name: Scallops and bacon with spring onion mash
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: British recipes
Ingredients: 400g chopped potatoes; Finely chopped spring onions; 4 slices streaky bacon, chopped; 10 scallops; Chopped fresh flatleaf parsley; Lemon wedges, to squeeze over

Easy
August 2008

Easy
August 2008

Test kitchen approved

Serves 2

This sumptuous scallop dinner, served with creamy mashed potatoes, looks impressive and tastes divine but is deceptively simple to make – it needs just four main ingredients.

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Ingredients

400g chopped potatoes
Finely chopped spring onions
4 slices streaky bacon, chopped
10 scallops
Chopped fresh flatleaf parsley
Lemon wedges, to squeeze over

Method

Cook the potatoes in a pan of boiling water until tender, then drain, mash and mix in a knob of butter and the spring onions.
Meanwhile, heat a large frying pan and add a large knob of butter and a dash of oil. Add the streaky bacon. Cook until crisp.
Remove, reheat the pan, add the scallops and cook over a high heat for 1 minute each side.
Sprinkle with chopped fresh flatleaf parsley. Scatter with the bacon, serve with the mash and lemon wedges to squeeze over.