Scallops and bacon with spring onion mash

Scallops and bacon with spring onion mash

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.

Scallops and bacon with spring onion mash

  • Serves icon 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.

Ingredients

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Remove, reheat the pan, add the scallops and cook over a high heat for 1 minute each side.
  4. Sprinkle with chopped fresh flatleaf parsley. Scatter with the bacon, serve with the mash and lemon wedges to squeeze over.

delicious. tips

  1. Treat yourself to some good-quality Bordeaux white.

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