Scallop and chilli bacon salad with cabbage, lettuce, green beans, spring onions and bird’s eye chillies
Prep Time
10mins
Cook Time
25mins
Total Time
35mins
This was a terrific salad which was bursting with flavour. I cut up three rashers of streaky bacon and spread the pieces out on a baking tray. I added a good layer of chilli flakes and freshly cracked black pepper as well as some dried Italian herbs. I put the tray into an oven at 200 °C for 20 minutes and allowed the bacon to cool on some absorbent paper. I cooked the scallops by placing them into a ceramic dish and adding two good slabs of salted butter. I added some chilli flakes to the butter and scallops. I put the dish into an oven at 200 °C for 5 minutes. The salad was made from shredded CoS lettuce and Savoy cabbage, along with cut green beans, spring onions, bird’s eye chillies and crumbled blue cheese. I dressed the salad with Donkey sauce. I added the bacon pieces and mixed them through the salad and then plated the salad. I added the scallops and spooned over some of the melted chilli butter.
Course:
Main Course
Cuisine:
Australian
Servings: 1
Calories: 250kcal
Author: Gary
Ingredients
3rashersStreaky bacon
100gscallops
Chilli flakes
2Bird's eye chillies
Savoy cabbage
Cos lettuce
1Green bean
Dried Italian herbs
Spring onions
100gBlue cheese crumbled
Donkey sauce
Salted butter
Instructions
Cut three streaky bacon rashers into thin cross-rasher slices
Spread the bacon pieces onto a baking sheet and add some chilli flakes, dried Italian herbs and freshly cracked black pepper
Cook the bacon in an oven at 200 °C for 20 minutes and allow the bacon to cool on absorbent paper after it has come out of the oven
In a small ceramic dish place the scallops making sure they are separated and some nobs of butter with some chilli flakes generously sprinkled on top
Cook the scallops and butter in an oven at 200 °C for 5 minutes and allow the scallops to cool and continue to cook in the butter while preparing the rest of the salad
Shred the Savoy cabbage and Cos lettuce and put into a mixing bowl
Slice the green bean and add to the mixing bowl
Thinly slice the Bird's eye chillies and add to the mixing bowl
Slice the Spring onions and add to the mixing bowl
Crumble in the Blue cheese to the mixing bowl
Add a couple of tablespoons of Donkey sauce and mix everything in the mixing bowl
Add the room temperature chilli bacon and mix
Plate up on a plate and then add the scallops
Spoon over some of the melted chilli butter for an added flavour addition
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Recipe Notes
The Donkey sauce recipe can be found elsewhere on Yummy Lummy. I hope you like it.