Recipe

Middle Eastern Seafood BBQ recipe

Celebrity chef, author & nutritionist, Janella Purcell, cooks a delicious Middle Eastern Seafood BBQ recipe over Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes on highly rated TV show Good Chef Bad Chef.

As seen on Season 4 of Good Chef Bad Chef

Watch recipe video (above right).

Ingredients:

Spice Mix

  • 1 teaspoon white peppercorns
  • 1 teaspoon coriander seeds
  • 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
  • 2 tablespoon lemon infused olive oil, or just plain
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 tablespoon thyme leaves
  • 1 lemon, zested

Seafood

  • 12 large scallops in the shell
  • 12 green prawns, peeled and cleaned, tails on

Tartare

  • ¼ cup tahini
  • 1 cup plain yoghurt
  • 1 lemon, juiced and zested
  • 1 garlic clove, crushed
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • ½ teaspoon white pepper
  • 1 tablespoon capers, chopped
  • 1 tablespoon dill pickles, chopped
  • lemon to garnish

Salsa

  • 1 small cucumber, sliced on the diagonal
  • ½ red onion, sliced
  • 2 cups coriander leaves
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil (preferably lemon infused)
  • 1 teaspoon white balsamic vinegar
  • sea salt and white pepper

Method:

In a mortar and pestle grind the spices then add the oil, garlic and salt. Pound to a smooth paste then add the thyme leaves and zest.

In a bowl, marinade the scallops and prawns with the spice mix. Set aside.

Make the tartare by whisking together the tahini, yoghurt, juice, zest, garlic and salt. You may need to add a little more juice or some water to thin it out. Then add the capers and dill pickles. Set aside.

For the salsa, toss all the ingredients together.

Place marinated seafood on a hot BBQ oiled with olive oil. Cook only for a minute or so, or until the seafood changes colour.

To serve – add about ½ tablespoon of tartare to the bottom of the scallop shell, then top with one scallop then a prawn. Finish with a teaspoon of salsa.

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*Recipe by celebrity chef Janella Purcell as seen on popular cooking series Good Chef Bad Chef. Image copyright Good Chef Bad Chef & Channel TEN.

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