Bacon Scallops with Garlic Butter Sauce
Crisp bacon, tender-melt-in-your mouth scallops with the most heavenly butter sauce. So fancy yet so easy!
Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, and if you still don’t know what you plan on doing, you might have a few tricks up your sleeve….
With these scallops, of course.
I’m dead serious. Don’t worry about getting a reservation for dinner on Sunday. It’ll be a mess anywhere you go.
Just stay in, sear some scallops, add your bacon and a whole mess of butter. Boom. You’re done.
Bacon Scallops with Garlic Butter Sauce
Crisp bacon, tender-melt-in-your mouth scallops with the most heavenly butter sauce. So fancy yet so easy!
Ingredients
- 4 slices bacon, diced
- 1 pound scallops
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ½ teaspoon dried basil
- ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, optional
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
Instructions
- Heat a large skillet over medium high heat. Add bacon and cook until brown and crispy, about 6-8 minutes. Drain excess fat; reserving 1 tablespoon in the skillet. Transfer bacon to a paper towel-lined plate.
- Remove the small side muscle from the scallops, rinse with cold water and thoroughly pat dry. Season scallops with salt and pepper, to taste. Working in batches, add scallops to the skillet in a single layer and cook, flipping once, until golden brown and translucent in the center, about 1-2 minutes per side. Set aside and keep warm.
- Melt butter in the skillet. Add garlic, oregano, basil and red pepper flakes; season with salt and pepper, to taste. Cook, stirring frequently, until fragrant, about 1-2 minutes. Stir in bacon and scallops.
- Serve immediately, garnished with parsley, if desired.
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So simple to make and absolutely delicious. Put it all over Angel Hair pasta. Defiitely will make again.
Delicious recipe – very clear instructions that are easy to follow. Thoroughly recommended
Simply delicious! This recipe is very easy to make and is great served over angel hair pasta. We added white wine right before the butter and it gave it an excellent taste. I already can’t wait to make it again!
Those are great additions, Caroline! Thank you for sharing! 🙂
Ten minute meal with steamed rice and tomato slices just delicious. Drizzling the butter sauce on sculptured rice was amazing. This is a great recipe
Made this my seven year old loves scallops. I searved it over garlic parmigiana mashed cauliflower.
Made this tonight.
Very easy and presentation was spot on.
Loved the flavours. I didn’t have any red pepper flakes so I added 2 tablespoons of sweet chilli sauce.
No leftovers.
Amazing!
Made this tonight for dinner. Entire family loved it. Doubled the recipe as it was being served over pasta as a main dish. Took the advice of other reviews and added a spash of wine (white) to deglaze my pan before adding in the butter and a spash of lemon at the end to cut the richness of the bacon and butter a bit. This will definitely become a go to recipe in the future. Quick, easy, customizable! Perfect for my busy household.
Just made this tonight. Used whipped potatoes with cream cheese and topped with the scallops and shrimp. My family always loves my cooking but tonight I got it was the best meal I ever made. Other than the shrimp I made it according to the recipe. Thank you for a new favorite.
Absolutely delicious!!
Dinner made easy! We loved it. Definitely a keeper
Just had the scallops last night absolutely the best!
Very good! Made with Carribean seasoning, added water from the rice noodles and some cream to make a sauce. Agree 1/4 cup butter would have been enough. Also liked the idea of adding some citrus suggested in another post.
This was an amazing meal, we served it over GF pasta with a green salad. I could eat this at least once a week!
OMG! This is awesome. Will make again, and again and again. Would show you the pictures but cab’t see where I can send,
You can tag me on Instagram at @damn_delicious. I would love to see what you whipped up!
I’ve never liked scallops in the restaurants I think because they have always been hard and rubbery. This was absolutely hands down the best! This recipe made me a fan of scallops 🙂 thank you for teaching me how to cook these. They aren’t small rubber hockey pucks after all. LOL – New Huge Fan Alert 🙂
Used scallops seasoned with oregano, salt and pepper, used 1 and 1/2 garlic cloves minced, fresh basil, (no red pepper flakes or parsley), 2tablespoons salted butter, and bacon… it was absolutely delicious and amazing! Also had boiled lobster tails sprinkled with Adobo and a dipping sauce of salted butter, fresh basil, and 1 1/2 garlic cloves minced
This recipe makes a VERY delicious dish. My husband and I enjoyed it so much. Thank you for sharing this with the world.
Made this for dinner tonight and it was awesome. I have never developed much love for scallops because I’ve never been impressed when I have had them at restaurants. Well, I am now a huge fan! So flavorful! And scallops seared perfectly when patted very dry before adding to hot pan. Only tweek I made was to deglaze the pan with about a 1/2 cup of chicken stock before adding the butter and herbs. Hubby loved it, said to add this to his “Favorites” list. Thanks for another great recipe! You never disappoint!
Made this last night. It was delicious- love the seasonings. I don’t think it needed 1/2 c butter tho- it was a little heavy along with the bacon. Needs a little citrus or something to cut the fat.
Thanks for the recipe!
This recipe seems fairly easy to prepare. I would try it out during the weekend