Barbecued scallops with saffron couscous
4 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ¼ | cup | Ketchup |
| ¼ | cup | Plum sauce |
| 2 | tablespoons | Fresh lime juice |
| 1 | tablespoon | Prepared horseradish |
| ⅛ | teaspoon | Pepper |
| 16 | larges | Sea scallops; about 1-1/2 pounds |
| 1¼ | cup | Water |
| 1 | cup | Chopped tomato |
| ⅓ | cup | Diced carrot |
| ⅓ | cup | Chopped onion |
| ¼ | cup | Chopped celery |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Saffron threads; crushed |
| ⅛ | teaspoon | Pepper |
| 1 | cup | Uncooked couscous |
| 2 | teaspoons | Extra-virgin olive oil |
Directions
Chef Roelant garnished this dish with fresh fruit and parsley. Combine first 5 ingredients in a bowl; stir well. Arrange scallops in a single layer in a 1-½-quart casserole; spoon about 6 tablespoons ketchup mixture over scallops. Cover and chill 30 minutes. Combine water and next 7 ingredients (water through pepper) in a medium saucepan, and bring to a boil; gradually stir in couscous. Remove from heat; cover and let stand 5 minutes. Add oil, and fluff with a fork. Uncover scallops, and broil 6 minutes on each side or until done. Spoon couscous mixture onto individual plates; top with scallops, and drizzle with remaining ketchup mixture.
Garnish with fresh fruit slices and parsley, if desired. Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 cup couscous, 4 scallops, and 1 tablespoon sauce).
NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION: CALORIES 380 (10% from fat); PROTEIN 35g; FAT 4.2g (sat 0.5g, mono 1.8g, poly 0.8g); CARB 50.3g; FIBER 3.2g; CHOL 56mg; IRON 1.9mg; SODIUM 935mg; CALC 67mg Reformatted by Olivia Liebermann.
Recipe by: Cooking Light YEAR: 1996 ISSUE: Jan/Feb Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #929 by Nancy Berry <nlberry@...> on Nov 28, 1997