Healthy Pasta Sauce with Pan Seared Scallops

Name: Healthy Pasta Sauce with Pan Seared Scallops
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Cuisine: European, Italian, Mediterranean
Ingredients: 4 servings chickpea pasta; - [ ] 1/2 onion; - [ ] 6 cloves of garlic; 5 cups Kale; - [ ] 2 tbsp lemon juice; 1/2 lemon, zested; - [ ] 2 tbsp olive oil; - [ ] 1 tsp salt; - [ ] 1/4 tsp black pepper; - [ ] Optional: 1 tsp red pepper flakes; - [ ] 1/3 cup Parmesan; 20 Scallops; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper; 2 tbsp butter

9 steps

Prep:10minCook:20min

This refreshing, delicious, and healthy pasta sauce on protein pasta goes beautifully with pan seared scallops. Though scallops seem like a difficult protein to make at home - it’s really quite simple and takes 5 minutes to prepare and cook!

Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 03:52:49 GMT

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Ingredients

4 servings

Pasta

4 servingschickpea pasta

0.5onion

6 clovesgarlic

5 cupskale

2 Tbsplemon juice

0.5lemon

zested

2 Tbspolive oil

1 tspsalt

¼ tspblack pepper

1 tspred pepper flakes

⅓ cupParmesan

Scallops

20scallops

¼ tspsalt

¼ tspblack pepper

2 Tbspbutter

Instructions

Step 1

Start by boiling water for your pasta. Prepare pasta as instructed, but save 1/4 cup of pasta water for later! (You can use whatever pasta you’d like - I did a protein pasta)

Step 2

Chop your garlic into small chunks, and cut your onion into 8ths. They’ll be blended, so no need to make it beautiful

Step 3

Heat up an oiled or nonstick pan over medium high heat. Add your garlic and stir for 1 min to infuse the flavor into the oil. Add in the onion, and cook until it gets soft - around 5 minutes

Step 4

While it’s cooking, add the rest of the ingredients into the blender (kale down to the Parmesan). Once the garlic and onion are ready - add it in.

Step 5

Blend on high for 1 minute, or until there are no chunks left.

Step 6

Once the pasta is ready, mix it together with the sauce and plate it. You want everything to be ready before starting the scallops.

Step 7

Pat your scallops dry, then season with salt and pepper on both sides.

Step 8

Melt butter on a pan over medium high heat. Once it starts bubbling, add in your scallops. Let it sear for 1-2 minutes, then flip. It should be a beautiful golden brown, and flip easily.

Step 9

Serve hot on the side of your pasta. Optional to serve with lemon (I like squeezing it onto my scallops) and more parmesan