Pan fried scallops with warm chorizo recipe

Sweet, firm, white scallops and the paprika-hot orange oil of smoky chorizo are delicious when cooked together – plus this salad, which is bursting with summer flavours, only takes ten minutes to make.

1. Heat 2 tbsp of the oil into a frying pan to medium, add the peppers and shallots cooking for 5 mins until softened, now add the chorizo for another 2 mins, stirring all the time. Remove the pan from the heat and set aside whilst you cook the scallops. Gently pat any excess moisture from the scallops with kitchen paper, season both sides of the scallops with salt and pepper.
2. Heat 1 tbsp of olive oil in a non stick frying on a high temperature. Now place the scallops into the pan, you want to hear an instant sizzle, don’t be tempted to move the scallops leave them to cook for 1 minute, then turn them over one by one, they should have a nice caramel colour on the cooked side. After a further minute remove scallops from the pan.
3. Arrange the scallops onto each plate, now mix the warm pepper salad with the lambs lettuce serve this with the scallops, drizzle the oil that is left in the pepper pan over your scallops followed by some chopped parsley.

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