Scallops & Shrimp Over Linguine With Baked Feta
By: Elliott
Published: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 2:38pm

Ingredients




1/2 pound sea scallops
1/2 pound large shrimp, peeled and cleaned
1/2 cup chicken or vegetable stock
1/2 cup of dry white wine
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 cloves coarsely chopped garlic
1 shallot, thinly sliced
1 Meyer lemon
1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
1 tablespoon chopped Italian parsley
8 ounces linguini
salt and pepper to taste

3/4 cup crumbled feta

Preparation

1 In skillet, sauté shallots and garlic in oil over medium heat. Add stock, wine, lemon juice, parsley, and cilantro. Bring to boil, add scallops first, then shrimp a couple of minutes later. Sauté until pink: about 3-5 minutes. Be careful not to overcook. Salt & pepper to taste. 2 Pour seafood sauce over linguine in a casserole dish. Crumble feta over the dish and place in oven on broil for about 5 minutes or until feta is just browned.

About


When I was finishing up high school and about to head off to college my dad, knowing I was interested in cooking, taught me a few basic recipes that were fairly simple, cheap and “guaranteed to wow anyone”. He taught me how to make a fabulous blanched green bean dish with only good salt, great olive oil and a squeeze of lemon (which I still make all the time, and have passed onto Heather who does the same). He taught me how to make the most decadent twice-baked potatoes with a super crispety outside and smoothest, richest insides, using 27,653 pounds of butter. He taught me building blocks, like how to make a roux for soup bases or a delicious cheese sauce to be poured over steamed broccoli. I learned to emulate his burgundy mushroom sauce served over a perfect medium-rare steak. 
And he taught me the recipe for a meal that can be made in the time that it takes for water to boil and pasta to cook. The dish’s broad strokes involve scallops and/or shrimp, white wine, garlic, a shallot and feta cheese. It’s inexpensive, fast, and everyone I have prepared it for has been tremendously impressed. And it is so easy.