legal seafood style scallops

Name: Legal Seafood Style Scallops
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 pound(s) sea scallops; - salt and pepper; 1 teaspoon(s) fresh thyme leaves, minced; 1/2 cup(s) buttermilk; 2 cup(s) crushed ritz crackers; 1/2 cup(s) butter, melted; 1 - small lemon, halved

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Carol Brunell

Rochester Hills, MI

Updated on Aug 1, 2014

Whenever we get back to Mass., we make a beeline for a Legal Seafood Restaurant. After loosing this recipe I finally found it again in a pile of newspaper clippings. I had tried to recreate it several times but was always missing the buttermilk. This is our favorite way to eat scallops.

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prep time 10 Min

cook time 20 Min

method Bake

yield 4 serving(s)

Ingredients

2 pounds sea scallops
- salt and pepper
1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves, minced
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 cups crushed ritz crackers
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 - small lemon, halved

How To Make legal seafood style scallops

Step 1

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

Step 2

Place scallops in a bowl, season with salt and pepper, add thyme and buttermilk and toss to coat
Step 3

Place scallops with buttermilk in the bottom of an oven proof dish, top with cracker crumbs and drizzle with butter
Step 4

Bake for 20 minutes, squeeze lemon over scallops and serve
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