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Cream of Scallops with Small Pasta: An Elegant Recipe by Chef Hubert

Ingredients (Serves 4):
  • 16 scallops
  • 20 cl scallop stock
  • 5 cl sherry
  • 20 g butter
  • 20 cl double cream
  • Salt and ground pepper
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 onion
  • Thyme and bay leaf
  • 10 cl dry white wine
  • 20 cl water

Preparation:
  • Preparation time: 15 minutes
  • Cooking time: 10 minutes

  1. Shell the scallops and wash the white meats and coral thoroughly with plenty of water. Reserve the trimmings, slice the whites thickly, and halve the coral.
  2. Melt the butter in a frying pan; when it foams, sear the scallops for 1 minute per side.
  3. Add the sherry, then the stock made by simmering the trimmings in white wine and water with chopped carrot, onion, thyme, and bay leaf.
  4. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve, add the cream, and simmer for about 5 minutes.
  5. Cook the small pasta in 3 liters of salted boiling water for about 5 minutes. Drain and add to the scallop cream.
  6. Arrange in shells and serve hot in soup plates.

Source: Le Livre de la Pâte by Chef Hubert for Panzani.

Cream of Scallops with Small Pasta: An Elegant Recipe by Chef Hubert