Scallops with Spicy Garlic Sauce

Categories: Main dish | Shellfish

Serves: 2 Servings

Ingredients:

6 Asparagus spears, cut
-diagonally into 1 1/2-inch
-pieces
4 tb (1/2 stick) butter
6 Fresh shiitake mushrooms,
-stemmed, caps sliced
1 tb Minced garlic
2 tb Grated onion
1/4 c Soy sauce
3 tb Sake
1 ts Hon-dashi, Japanese
-bonito-type soup stock
-granules, is sold at Asian
Markets
pn Of cayenne pepper
10 Sea scallops

Instructions:
Cook asparagus in medium saucepan of boiling salted water 1 minute. Drain.

Melt 2 tablespoons butter in heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add
mushrooms and garlic; saut‚ until mushrooms are tender, about 5 minutes.
Add onion; stir 1 minute. Add soy sauce, sake, hon-dashi and cayenne;
simmer until sauce thickens slightly, about 3 minutes. Remove pan from
heat.

Melt remaining 2 tablespoons butter in heavy medium skillet over high heat.
Season scallops with salt and pepper. Add scallops to skillet and saut‚
until almost cooked through, about 3 minutes. Add asparagus and toss until
heated through, about 1 minute. Add sauce and simmer 1 minute. Bon Appetit
September 1995 Source: Matsuhisa; Beverly Hills, CA
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #003

From: Julie Bertholf

Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 23:31:54 -0800

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