Grilled Bacon-Wrapped Scallops

Name: Grilled Bacon-Wrapped Scallops
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 12 slices, bacon; 24 , large sea scallops, tendons removed; 3 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 1/8 teaspoon, pepper; 2 , lemons, halved; 1/4 cup, chopped fresh chives

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2012, America's Test Kitchen TV

Main Courses

American

Fish & Seafood

How do you translate this time-tested hors d’oeuvre into a grilled entrée? With a handful of easy tricks.

SERVES4

TIME1¼ hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To recast this cocktail-party favorite as a grilled entrée, we had to find a way to get sturdy, fatty bacon and lean, delicate scallops to come together. Parcooking the bacon in the microwave rendered some of the fat, preventing flare-ups w...

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