The Good Earth Peanut Company

Recipe #17 Contest Winner

Peanut Crusted Scallops with Pomegranate Glaze

Pomegranate Glaze:

1 cup Pomegranate syrup
1/2 cup Fresh orange juice
1/8 cup Honey


Scallops:

2 lbs scallops
2 Tbs Olive Oil
Salt and Pepper to taste
1 cup toasted and coarsely ground unsalted Good Earth Peanuts

Mix all the ingredients together for the Pomegranate glaze in a saucepan and bring to a simmer. Simmer until the glaze coats the back of a spoon**Transfer to a small bowl and slightly cool.

Heat the grill to medium. Toss the sea scallops with the oil in a medium-size bowl and lightly season with salt and pepper. Grill the scallops for  4 minutes per side, or until dark golden brown and firm.

Heat the grill to medium. Toss the sea scallops with the oil in a medium-size bowl and lightly season with salt and pepper. Grill the scallops for  4 minutes per side, or until dark golden brown and firm.

Swirl each scallop in the warmed glaze and transfer to a platter.
Sprinkle the peanuts on top and turn scallops to sprinkle the other side with peanuts to coat. Serve immediately.

Emily Dresslar Drayton

The Judges

Daniel Rogov

Daniel has been writing about food and wine for more years than he will admit in public. For the last twenty years he has been the Wine and Restaurant Critic for the Israeli Daily, Ha'Aretz. Rogov also contributes regularly on dining and wine to several European newspapers and magazines; and is an advisor to Hugh Johnson's "Pocket Wine Encyclopaedia" and contributes to Tom Stevenson’s “Wine Report”. His own book “Rogov’s Guide to Israeli Wines has just been published by Toby press and can be ordered through Amazon or Barnes and Nobles. He also maintains Rogov's Ramblings, an internet site devoted to wine, gastronomy and travel.

Jenise Stone

Jenise is a an avid foodie and accomplished cook from Los Angeles who contributes to the Food Lovers Discussion Group, an internet bulletin board devoted to food chat, recipe sharing and friendship.

Robin Garr

Robin Garr has been involved in wine appreciation online since the mid-1980s, serving as a manager of CompuServe's Wine Forum for nearly a decade before the evolution of the World Wide Web. He created the Wine Lovers' Page in 1994 as one of the first independent wine-education Websites, and has presided over its growth as the largest, most popular and most highly awarded wine destination on the Internet. He began its Wine Lovers' Discussion Group, the first Web-based interactive community for the intelligent and civil discussion of wine online, in 1996; and he launched his popular E-mail newsletter, The 30 Second Wine Advisor, at the start of 1999.