Grilled Scallop Recipe
Adapted from Chef Nicolas Pedemonte
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 20 minutes plus 30 minutes freezing time
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Makes: 12 scallops
Ingredients Needed
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90g/3ozs salted butter, softened
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15ml/0.5floz yuzu juice
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30g/1oz white miso paste
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Pinch of sugar
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12 scallops in shell
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70ml/2.5flozs extra dry sake (Junmai)
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Salt for seasoning
Step-By-Step Cooking Instructions
Making the Miso Butter
Step 1 - Leave butter on benchtop to soften until soft and creamy in texture (or microwave on 10% in 1 minute bursts). Add white miso paste and sugar and mix everything with a whisk until incorporated. Add cold yuzu juice slowly to incorporate.
Preparing the Scallops
Step 2 - Using cling film, place the butter mixture and roll to a sausage shape no bigger the 2cm/0.8inch wide. Freeze for 30 minutes until hard. Slice into 0.5cm/0.2inch discs. Place the butter under the scallop.
Grilling the Scallops
Step 3 - In a grill on high or a hibachi set with charcoal to high intensity (hibachi temperature around 400C/752F) place the scallops and 2 teaspoons or so of sake until the scallop shell is full. When butter is melted and the shells start browning turn the scallop and over and grill for another couple of minutes. Decorate with chiffonade of shiso and an extra sprinkle of salt and place on a platter with rock salt.
Personal Note
I was so excited to have these recipes to make when I got back from Newcastle and I knew that the scallops would be one of the first to make because they're an easy dinner or entertaining recipe. You can keep the scallops with the butter in the shell in the fridge until they're ready to grill and it's literally 5 minutes under the grill.
When I went to Newcastle I drove myself there and back as Mr NQN was at home with the dogs. I don't like driving long distances so I try to make sure that I have enough stops and feel comfortable. I had a drink ready in the middle console of the car. It was semi frozen so I figured that by the time I was driving home, it would be just cold after sitting in the car. I got back into my car and I sat down and then looked down and let out a horrified scream. There were ants crawling all over my drink!
We have had ants in the car in the past (I'm not sure from where) and I thought we had gotten rid of them using a trap but clearly I was wrong. Dozens of ants were crawling around my drink and the middle console so I grabbed my pistachio matcha latte and with great sadness threw it away. I wiped everything down with a wet wipe and mourned the loss of the drink that I was looking forward to drinking on the drive home.
When I was on the road and on my way home I started to feel a little pinch on my bottom sort of like a little bite. And then more and more. I don't know if it was a mental thing but I swore that I was getting bitten on my ass while I was driving. I felt ants crawling all over me and I tried to stay calm while driving home. Most people are hugely relieved once they get home but I was super, super happy to get home and out of the car!
So tell me Dear Reader, do you have any tips on how to get rid of ants out of a car permanently? Do you make grilled scallops?