Mediterranean Sea Bake

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 8
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 372.6
  • Total Fat: 2.8 g
  • Cholesterol: 34.8 mg
  • Sodium: 585.2 mg
  • Total Carbs: 56.0 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 6.9 g
  • Protein: 27.1 g

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Introduction

This all-in-one pasta and seafood bake is loaded with Mediterranean flavours from the peppers, eggplant and lemon dancing throughout a white wine and tomato sauce. This all-in-one pasta and seafood bake is loaded with Mediterranean flavours from the peppers, eggplant and lemon dancing throughout a white wine and tomato sauce.
Number of Servings: 8

Ingredients

    12 oz uncooked spiral or shell pasta (whole grain preferred)
    1 tsp olive oil
    1 large white onion, sliced
    2 yellow bell peppers, cut into strips
    2 red bell peppers, cut into strips
    1 medium zucchini, sliced into rounds
    ½ eggplant, peeled and chopped
    1 quart white button mushrooms, sliced
    1 ½ cups dry white wine
    1 28 oz can crushed tomatoes
    1 Tbsp. oregano
    1 Tbsp basil
    ½ Tbsp garlic powder
    ½ Tbsp lemon zest
    2 (200g) packages Clover Leaf Seafood Delectables, flake crab style
    32 large dry sea scallops
    3 Tbsp lemon pepper

Directions

Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly grease a 9x13 glass dish.
Cook pasta in salted water about 4 minutes. Pasta should be firm. Drain and set in the baking dish.
Heat olive oil in a large sauté pan over medium-high.
Add onion, peppers, zucchini and eggplant, and cook while stirring about 8 minutes.
Add mushrooms and sauté 3 minutes.
Remove all vegetables to the glass dish with the pasta.
Deglaze the sauté pan with about ½ cup white wine, and pour liquid and browned pieces over the vegetables.
Add the remaining wine, tomatoes, seasonings and imitation crab to the dish and stir well to blend sauce.
Bake for 1 hour. Remove from oven and set aside.
Heat a non-stick fry-pan over very high heat.
Crust the scallops with lemon pepper.
Place scallops, about 4-5 at a time, into the fry-pan and cook without moving them 20 seconds.
Flip scallops and cook 20 seconds. Remove to glass dish.
When all scallops have been seared, mix the pasta bake well to incorporate the scallops, and serve.

Number of Servings: 8

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user JO_JO_BA.