Quick and Easy Grilled Scallops

If you want restaurant-quality grilled scallops at home, then you need to try this fast and easy smoked scallops recipe complete with lemon garlic butter. This is the best scallops recipe you’ll ever find—and we include everything you need to know about how to grill scallops!

How to Buy and Clean Scallops

Before we dive into how to grill scallops, you need to know what to buy for making scallops on the grill.

Prepare the Scallop Skewers

These scallops on the grill are so easy to make. First, you’ll create scallop skewers. To ensure the wooden skewers don’t burn, soak them in water for one hour.

Then, you’ll slide four scallops onto each wooden skewer. If the side muscle has not been removed from your scallops, you’ll want to gently remove those before you skewer the scallops.

While you prepare your grill and your garlic butter, be sure to let the scallops rest in the fridge.

Make the Lemon Garlic Browned Butter

These scallops taste delicious on their own with the smokey flavor from your pellet smoker and a little bit of salt. But this lemon garlic browned butter really brings them to the next level.

Using a grill-safe pan with a heat-resistant handle, you’ll brown the butter on the grill. As soon as you remove it from the heat, you’ll add minced garlic and lemon juice. It’s that easy!

If you prefer to prepare the browned butter in the kitchen rather than on the grill, you can modify this recipe.

Grill the Scallops

To make sure your scallop skewers don’t stick, you’ll need to brush the grill grates with olive oil. Then, it only takes about 6 minutes for your scallops on the grill to cook! Three minutes on each side should deliver tasty charred streaks and perfectly cooked scallops.

And that’s how to grill scallops! It is as easy as it sounds.