Instructions and ingredients for making baked scallops, a recipe that combines with four cheeses sauce and gruyere cheese, with bay leaf essence.
Ingredients for 4 portions
- 1 shallot
- 200 gr 4 cheese sauce
- 50 gr grated Gruyere cheese
- 4 scallops with shell
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 vegetable nut
- salt and pepper
How to cook baked scallops
Carefully wash the scallops on the outside, to eliminate the possible presence of silt, rubbing them well with the help of a brush, then place them in an ovenproof dish and put them in the preheated oven at 180 ° C to open them, it takes about 5 minutes.
Remove the scallops from the oven, let them cool and take them out of their shell, to be kept aside for later use.
Arrange the pulp of the molluscs in a pan, cover with a glass of warm water together with the liquid released during cooking in the oven.
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Add the bay leaf, the crumbled nut and the chopped shallot, then cook for about 10 minutes on low heat, waiting for the cooking medium to reduce.
Drain the shellfish pulp and place it inside the shells, then transfer the 4 cheese sauce to a bowl, add a few tablespoons of the cooking juices, salt and pepper, then mix well and pour over the shellfish.
Sprinkle with grated gruyere and gratin under the oven grill until the surface is golden brown.
