How to Cook Salmon-Wrapped Scallops

Serves: 5

Preparation time: 20 mins

Cooking time: 20 mins

Ingredients needed to make Salmon-Wrapped Scallops:

• 12 slices smoked salmon, thinly sliced into ½’’ strips
• 10 dry sea scallops
• 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 10 toothpicks

For the sauce:

• 1 tbsp honey
• ¼ cup fresh orange juice
• ½ cup dry dates, chopped

Cooking instructions for Salmon-Wrapped Scallops:

• To make the sauce, pour the orange juice into a small saucepan and whisk in the honey until well combined.
• Throw in the chopped dates and heat the mixture over moderate flame, until it starts boiling.
• Reduce it to simmer and continue to cook likewise over moderately low flame, until the sauce thickens considerably; keep warm.
• Slice a couple of salmon strips into 1’’x ¼ ‘’ smaller strips.
• Run the tip of the knife along the middle of the scallops to make a cut.
• Wrap few salmon strips around one scallop, while pushing them slightly through the cut to keep the strips in place.
• Wrap 10 longer strips of the salmon around that scallop and insert a toothpick through it so that it passes through the point where the strips overlaps, to secure.
• Wrap rest of the scallops in a similar fashion and set aside.
• Heat a lashing of olive oil in a skillet and arrange the wrapped scallops on it, 4 at a time, to avoid overcrowding
• Cook one side for a couple of minutes and flip it over to cook the other side in a similar manner until they brown evenly and are cooked through.
• Arrange them on small serving plates, two on each plate and keep warm until the other wrapped scallops are fried.
• Drizzle a spoonful of sweet date sauce over each serving and serve warm.

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