This quick and easy pan seared scallops recipe consists of 5 ingredients, including lemon pepper, Kosher salt, and olive oil.
What you need:
- 1 lb medium scallops
- 3 T butter
- 3 T olive oil
- lemon pepper to taste
- Koser salt to taste
What you do:
- Rinse scallops and dry with paper towels.
- Season scallops with salt and lemon pepper.
- Heat butter and olive oil in a large skillet over low heat until butter melts.
- Turn up heat to high.
- When butter oil mixture starts to smoke, add scallops to skillet.
- Make sure scallops are not touching each other in pan.
- Cook scallops over high heat 2 minutes per side.
- Do not move scallops around pan while cooking to create a nice sear on both sides.
- Serve immediately.