Quinoa with Scallops Recipe (藜麥伴帶子)

You’re wondering how to start off your summer right ? The perfect and refreshing quinoa recipe is the way to go!

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 and 1/2 cup quinoa
• 233g frozen scallops
• 2 apple mangoes
• 125g cherry tomatoes
• 1 green onion
• dill
• fish roe

INSTRUCTIONS

First, wash the quinoa thoroughly and boil with 3 cups of water on high heat. After boiling, turn to low heat for about 15 minutes. Strain and add 1 tbsp of olive oil, salt and black pepper. Stir them evenly and let it cool down.

Wash cherry tomatoes and green onions. Cut them into pieces.

Peel off the mango and remove the core. Cut half a mango into small pieces. Add ½ of tsp of lemon juice. Cut the other half of the mango into slices.

Mix up tomatoes, onions and mango pieces into quinoa.

Defrost scallops, wash them and remove all the water afterward.

Heat up the wok on high heat and make sure the wok is hot enough. Then put 1 tbsp of oil and add each scallop individually into the wok. Fry both sides of each scallop then add salt and the pepper.

Serve with extra mango slices and fish roe.

TIPS

• Make sure the wok is hot enough for frying the scallops. In order to avoid water coming out from the scallop to affect the taste, the scallop has to be put one by one into the wok. 

Quinoa with scallops

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Ingredients

  

• 1 and 1/2 cup quinoa
• 233 g frozen scallops
• 2 apple mangoes
• 125 g cherry tomatoes
• 1 green onion
• dill
• fish roe

Instructions

 

• First, wash the quinoa thoroughly and boil with 3 cups of water on high heat. After boiling, turn to low heat for about 15 minutes. Strain and add 1 tbsp of olive oil, salt and black pepper. Stir them evenly and let it cool down.
• Wash cherry tomatoes and green onions. Cut them into pieces.
• Peel off the mango and remove the core. Cut half a mango into small pieces. Add ½ of tsp of lemon juice. Cut the other half of the mango into slices.
• Mix up tomatoes, onions and mango pieces into quinoa.
• Defrost scallops, wash them and remove all the water afterward.
• Heat up the wok on high heat and make sure the wok is hot enough. Then put 1 tbsp of oil and add each scallop individually into the wok. Fry both sides of each scallop then add salt and the pepper.
• Serve with extra mango slices and fish roe.

Notes

1. Make sure the wok is hot enough for frying the scallops. In order to avoid water coming out from the scallop to affect the taste, the scallop has to be put one by one into the wok.

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