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Fast, delicious, and rarely seen in a home kitchen, scallops are like the unicorn of easy dinner entrées. If you love eating these marvelous mollusks at restaurants and are eager to go pro, Martha Stewart shows you the proper way to cook them over the stove in this video.
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00:00And they smell absolutely as sweet as can be with a little bit of salt water, seawater thrown in.
00:05These are beautiful sea scallops.
00:08In Maine, the favorite way of cooking scallops is to put them right in a pan with just a touch
00:13of oil.
00:13And in another cast iron pan, I have about a little bit more than a quarter of a cup of
00:18oil.
00:19I'm going to fry some capers as a garnish for our scallops.
00:23Now always salt and pepper right before you're going to cook.
00:28The pan is very hot.
00:30You can see it just starting to smoke.
00:32And now I'm going to put my drained capers in the hot oil.
00:38There's the color you want.
00:40Serve it with a wedge or two of lemon and a little bit of basil.
00:44A lovely fresh sea scallop, a diver's scallop from off the coast of Maine.

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