Scallop skewers with apples and Calvados butter - A recipe by Ivan Vautier - Le Pressoir Restaurant - Caen
For the Calvados butter:
1 cl of Pommeau
1 cl of young Calvados
5 cl of liquid cream
100 g AOC Isigny butter
fine salt and ground pepper
The skewers Cut the slices of ham into 3, lengthways. On each sliver, place one piece of scallop flesh between 2 slices of apple. Roll up and attach with a wooden pick.
The butter Boil down the Pommeau and the Calvados to 3/4. Add the liquid cream and whip up the butter (the sauce must not boil). Season and keep warm.
Cooking Cook in a very hot frying pan, 1 to 2 minutes on each side, and immediately place on the leeks. Coat with a little Calvados butter.