Seafood is no longer considered exotic. Now you don't have to be a sophisticated culinary specialist to prepare delicious seafood cocktail dishes. Seafood is a treasure trove of trace elements and minerals. The frozen cocktail is low in calories, this seafood platter will not harm people with diabetes.
Usually seafood cocktail is sold in packages weighing 400-1500 g. The mixture includes: shrimp, mussels, squid, octopus, rapa, less often there are lobsters with scallops. But the price of such a seafood cocktail is significantly higher. The ingredients of the cocktail are in different proportions.
When buying a frozen product, the question always arises: how to cook a frozen sea cocktail and whether it needs to be defrosted before that.
Rules for cooking and choosing a frozen sea cocktail
Chefs advise pouring the contents of the package into boiling water without thawing, otherwise, instead of whole components, you will get an unpleasant mushy mass.
Sea cocktail is cooked for 5-7 minutes.
You shouldn't buy fresh seafood if you don't understand them. Thanks to freezing, all parasites and harmful microorganisms die. The faster the freezing occurs, the more nutrients are preserved in the product.
When choosing a frozen product, carefully study the package - if there is a lot of ice in it, then this indicates that the product has already been defrosted, it is not worth buying.
There are many people who didn’t like the taste of seafood but simply ate improperly cooked dishes made from this unusual ingredient. From the inhabitants of the sea, you can cook both soups and salads and main dishes.
Sea cocktail soup recipe
Seafood soup will diversify your daily menu perfectly, it is no more difficult to prepare it than chicken soup. The first dish is also suitable for fasting days - it has few calories, no meat. The soup tastes very spicy due to the presence of white wine in the recipe.
Ingredients:
- 1 package of seafood cocktail (weighing 450 g);
- half a glass of dry white wine;
- 1 onion, carrot, leek, celery root;
- 10 peppercorns;
- olive oil for frying;
- fresh herbs for everybody.
How to cook:
1. Peel the celery, cut. Peel the onions and carrots, chop and fry in a little olive oil.
2. Place a pot of water on the stove and bring to a boil. Lay out the fried vegetables, cook for 15 minutes, then strain the broth - vegetables are no longer required. But if desired, they can be left in the prepared soup.
3. Pour white wine into the broth, leave on the stove to boil.
4. Rinse the seafood shake under cold water, put it in the vegetable broth and cook for 5-7 minutes.
The seafood cocktail soup is ready, sprinkle each serving with fresh herbs before serving.
