Seared Sea Scallops With Chipotle Spinach Sauce

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For this recipe, it's champion to usage diver oregon dry-packed scallops, which are adust and steadfast alternatively than brushed and wet.

The asparagus, peppers and creamed spinach/sauce tin beryllium made respective hours oregon a time successful advance, past concisely reheated erstwhile you hole the scallops.

From Real Entertaining columnist David Hagedorn.

Ingredients

1/4 cupful olive oil
18 mean (18 ounces) asparagus spears trimmed and chopped successful fractional crosswise, past lengthwise
1 mean reddish doorbell pepper, stemmed, seeded and chopped into precise bladed strips (julienne)
Medium-grind oversea salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
12 ounces babe spinach (9 cups; nary request to stem)
2 mean shallots, finely chopped
8 ounces cremini mushrooms, chopped (stemmed if necessary)
1 chipotle en adobo, chopped, specified arsenic La Morena brand
1 cupful half-and-half
1/2 cupful food banal oregon clam juice
2 pounds ample (U-10) dry-packed scallops (see headnote)
2 tablespoons canola oil
Chopped chives oregon parsley, for garnish (optional)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
360
Fat
20 g
Saturated Fat
5 g
Carbohydrates
15 g
Sodium
430 mg
Cholesterol
65 mg
Protein
32 g
Fiber
5 g
Sugar
3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Real Entertaining columnist David Hagedorn.

Tested by David Hagedorn.

Published April 27, 2010

Updated March 13, 2026