Pan seared day-boat scallops with orange beurre blanc

by Moribundt

7 Comments

  1. wighatter

    Those look ginormous and are definitely envy-inducing.

  2. Moribundt

    Would welcome any thoughts and/or creative criticism on presentation! First course of an at home tasting.

    Plates from Heath Ceramics (grey), and Hasami (beige)

  3. fkdkshufidsgdsk

    Sauce looks great and scallops look very nice!

    I’d lose both garnish and do something that’s more edible – eating a plain parsley leaf isn’t very tasty and the orange rind is obviously not edible

    Maybe make a parsley oil or a gremolata w orange zest. Orange supremes could be nice as well as an element with some texture and salt – you’ve got a lot of sweet flavors here so balancing it with something like a crispy shallot or a crispy pork product (pancetta, bacon, etc) could help bring it all together

  4. Hadrians_Fall

    Nice looking dish. Personally, I’d probably lose the garnish on the scallops.

  5. Weak_Introduction580

    I think you should try to get a harder sear on the scallops, but that’s just preference. Looks delicious!

  6. TrueAbbreviations552

    Sauce looks nice but there is too much of it on the plate. Lose the peel and maybe do a supreme or dehydrated/ freeze dried pulp.

  7. tbrodtrick1

    I think you’ve done a really good job here. Scallops look nice and your beurre blanc doesn’t appear split.

    The parsley doesn’t really have a place here, yes it adds a nice color pop but it doesn’t have any other tie to your dish, I’d get rid of it and as mentioned above if you need the green, incorporate it into a gremolata or something. That is a lot of beurre blanc, I would not put that much on the plate, as well that is a lot of zest, and while it looks nice and has a tie to the dish it has too much pith left on it. If it were my dish I think I’d try preserving the orange rind in salt sugar removing the pith and the julienning.

    Really nice start here.

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