Sea cocktail salad is an easy-to-prepare and affordable dish, while it can be safely called a delicacy. The composition of such a mixture includes various marine reptiles, which are rarely included in the diet of an ordinary person.
What is a seafood cocktail and how to use it
The Seafood Cocktail is a mix of seafood that includes shrimp, mussels, squid and octopus. This product is very useful because it contains a high proportion of amino acids, more than 30 trace elements, as well as vitamins A, D and E. A dish cooked with seafood will not only delight you, but will also benefit your body.
In stores, seafood cocktails are found frozen, so before using them as a basis for gourmet dishes, it is worth doing some work.
First of all, you need to defrost the sea cocktail and hold it in boiling water for 3-5 minutes for several minutes. You can also steam the seafood in a skillet - pour the seafood mixture with water and evaporate the water over medium heat. Once the water has evaporated from the pan, you can start using the seafood. You can also place the seafood shake in cold water and simmer for about 15 minutes.
When buying a frozen seafood cocktail, pay attention to the method of freezing it, it is best if the seafood is frozen by the shock method. An important nuance - there should be no ice or snow in the package, you can determine their presence by compressing the package. If you hear a crunch when squeezing the package, this means that the product has been frozen several times, so you should refuse to buy such a cocktail.
Salads with sea cocktail
Seafood goes great with many fruits and vegetables, as well as spaghetti and rice, so you can make simple and healthy salads by combining different ingredients in one plate. For example, to prepare perhaps the simplest salad you will need: a mixture of a sea cocktail - 1 packet, lettuce leaves, lemon, olive oil - 3 tbsp. l., salt and pepper.
Combine boiled seafood with green salad leaves, use olive oil mixed with lemon juice as a dressing, salt and pepper to your liking. The preparation of the salad (taking into account the heat treatment of the sea cocktail) will take no more than 15 minutes. This salad can be diluted with vegetables such as tomatoes, cucumbers or avocados.
Dressing for salads with seafood can serve not only sauces based on olive oil, but also sour cream, mayonnaise or mustard.
Another seafood cocktail salad recipe consists of the following ingredients: seafood cocktail - 1 packet, lettuce leaves, garlic - 3 cloves, bell peppers, olive oil and mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. l. Boil a seafood cocktail with black pepper for a few minutes, drain and dry the delicacy. Cut sweet pepper into cubes, mix with seafood. Whisk the mayonnaise and olive oil separately, add the pressed garlic. Put lettuce leaves on a dish, on them - seafood with pepper. Pour the prepared sauce over the salad.
