Menu Description: “Wood-grilled, bacon-wrapped sea scallops with a sweet peach-bourbon BBQ sauce, over crispy onion rings with pico de gallo.”

You want a great way to serve scallops? Here it is. This appetizer features scallops wrapped with bacon, skewered, grilled, then smothered in a super secret sweet sauce and topped with fresh pico de gallo. As a bonus, they’re served with a side of crispy thin onion rings. When you get it all into your mouth at once, you’ll instantly know why this appetizer is so popular. Use my Red Lobster Peach-Bourbon BBQ Scallops recipe below to duplicate all this deliciousness at home.

I recommend using medium-size sea scallops that are all about the same size so that they each take the same amount of time to cook. You can wrap the scallops with center-cut bacon—a shorter bacon strip—or you can use the standard-size bacon and just cut off the ends. What’s nice about this dish is that you can make it a couple hours ahead of time by preparing the pico de gallo and sauce, baking the scallops, wrapping them with bacon, and then storing them covered in the refrigerator until grill time. When you are ready to serve the dish, make the crispy onions rings, grill the scallops, and serve them with the sauce poured over the top.

Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3 by Todd Wilbur.