Recipe - Pan-Seared Rigatoni With Chicken And Spinach

Olive oil
12 Plum tomatoes; minced
4 Shallots; minced
6 Garlic cloves
1 cup White wine
Juice of 3 lemons
One fourth pound Butter (1 stick); cubed
4 ounce Fresh pasta of choice
(linguine;
Fettuccine)
1 bn Basil; stems removed
1 bn Parsley; stems removed
1 bn Watercress; stems removed
1 cup Extravirgin olive oil; plus
3 tablespoon Extravirgin olive oil
Kosher salt; to taste
Freshlyground black pepper;
to taste
16 Sea scallops ; (10 to 20
dry pack)
1 cup Grated Parmesan cheese
1 Sprig fresh purple basil

In a saucepan add a touch of olive oil, plum tomatoes, 3 shallots and 4
cloves of garlic and cook until shallots are translucent. Add white wine
and juice of 2 lemons. Bring to boil, reduce heat, let cook three minutes.
Remove from heat and add all ingredients to blender and puree. This process
may require being done in steps so that blender does not overflow. Strain
pureed ingredients through chinoise, throw out pulp, reserve broth. Bring
broth back up to at least 110 degrees. Place in a clean blender, add cubed
butter with blender on high to emulsify, thicken sauce, season to taste. In
a large pot bring to boil salted water and then cook pasta to al dente,
refresh in ice bath and set aside. Toss in 1 tablespoon olive oil until
ready to serve. In a blender, add 2 cloves of garlic, 1 shallot, basil,
parsley and watercress, juice of the 1 remaining lemon, cover blender, turn
on high. Slowly add 1 cup olive oil until emulsified. Season with salt
add fresh cracked black pepper (a lot), briefly turn blender on. Transfer
contents into a squirt bottle and refrigerate until ready to serve. Place 1
saute pan over high heat until it smokes. In another saute pan place 1
teaspoon of olive oil, add 3 ounces of pasta, then 4 ounces of tomato
sauce, check for seasoning of salt and pepper to taste. In smoking pan,
heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Season scallops with kosher salt and
freshly cracked black pepper, then add to hot oil. Sear deeply until warm
brown color; turn each scallop over and finish in a 375 degree oven (for 3
minutes). In desired plate or bowl place pasta with sauce, when scallops
are done arrange them on top of pasta. Liberally swizzle pesto over plate
and garnish with purple basil sprig. This recipe yields 4