SCALLOPS IN CHIVE CREAM | Recipe Wisdom

Ingredients

• 25 g/1 oz/2 tbsp butter
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 1 leek, trimmed and finely sliced
• 1 carrot, finely sliced
• 100 ml/3½ fl oz/generous ⅓ cup white wine
• 300 ml/10 fl oz/1¼ cups fish stock (see here)
• 12 scallops (North American sea scallops), removed from their shells
• 1 egg yolk
• 100 ml/3½ fl oz/generous ⅓ cup double (heavy) cream
• handful of chives, finely chopped
• 1 tbsp herring roe from a jar
• 2 tbsp salmon caviar (keta) from a jar
• 1 tbsp beet sprouts
• 1 tbsp lemon cress (lemon basil)
• salt and pepper