Scallops with crushed new potatoes, leek & bacon

Scallops with crushed new potatoes, leek & bacon

Ingredients
✷ 300g baby new potatoes
✷ 50g unsalted butter
✷ 4 slices unsmoked back bacon, chopped
✷ 1 leek, trimmed and sliced
✷ 1 tbsp finely chopped
fresh parsley
✷ 4 tbsp west country single cream
✷ 12 raw wild scallops

1 Cook the potatoes in boiling salted water for 15-20 minutes until tender.
Drain and roughly crush with a fork.
2 Meanwhile, melt half the butter in a frying pan and fry the bacon and leek
for 10 minutes until the leek is soft. Stir in the parsley, cream and crushed
potatoes. Season to taste.
3 Season the scallops and fry in the remaining butter for 1-2 minutes each
side until golden. Serve the potatoes on plates with the scallops arranged
on top and drizzle over the juices from the scallop pan.