This pasta dish comes together in 30 minutes! It’s fresh, bright, and lemony. I love cooking with scallops because they only take about 5 minutes to cook. Toss in some angel hair pasta with the lemony sauce. Serve with the seared scallops and dig in!
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Lemon Caper Pasta & Seared Scallops
Fresh, bright, and lemony sauce with some perfectly seared scallops. And of course some pasta to soak up all that yummy sauce!
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp Avocado Oil
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Black Pepper
- 8 oz Raw Scallops
- 2 tbsp Butter Divided into two halves
- 4 cloves Garlic Minced
- 1/3 cup White Wine Dry
- 2 tbsp Capers
- 1 Lemon zest and juice; divided
- 1/4 tsp Red Pepper Flakes
- 1/2 tsp Italian Seasoning
- 1/2 cup Chicken Broth
- 1 tsp Dijon Mustard
- 8 oz Angel Hair Pasta
- 1/2 cup Fresh Parsely Chopped
Instructions
- Heat a large pot of boiling salted water.
- Pat scallops dry and generously salt and pepper all sides.
- Heat avocado oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Sear scallops for 2-3 minutes then flip scallops and add 1 tbsp of butter. Spoon the butter over the scallops as you cook for another 2-3 minutes.
- Remove scallops onto a plate.
- Add minced garlic to the skillet and cook for 30 seconds. Pour in wine and deglaze skillet. Scrape up any brown bits on the bottom of the skillet.
- Add capers, the zest of 1 lemon, 1/2 of the lemon juice, red pepper flakes, italian seasoning, chicken broth, and dijon mustard. Boil for 8 minutes.
- Cook pasta in the large pot of boiling salted water while the sauce boils.
- Transfer pasta to the sauce with a splash of pasta water. Add 1 tbsp of butter, the other half of the lemon juice, and fresh parsley.
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