Mussels are bivalve edible mollusks, a valuable object of fishing and breeding along with oysters. Since ancient times, mussels are traditionally included in the food of peoples living on the shores of warm seas.
Mussels are a useful (no less than oysters), low-calorie delicacy product containing in large quantities protein and practically free of carbohydrates. In the flesh of these mollusks also contain substances that are very useful to the human body (especially useful to men zinc compounds).
From mussels and mussels it is possible to prepare various dishes, delicious, simple, delicious and delicacies, there are a lot of recipes known.
In any case, it is necessary to consider the following: sea mussels can be eaten in pickled form (or even raw), freshwater shellfish should be subjected to thermal treatment in order to avoid contamination by pathogens.
Dish from mussels marinated with lemon, garlic and hot red pepper
Ingredients:
- mussels are fresh;
- vegetable oil (olive or mustard cold pressed);
- hot red hot pepper;
- lemon;
- fresh fresh herbs (young onion, parsley, coriander, basil).
Preparation
First we prepare marinade: mix in arbitrary proportions vegetable oil and lemon juice (it can be replaced with natural light wine vinegar or mix the lemon juice with vinegar). Add garlic to the marinated garlic and season with hot red pepper. Let him insist.
Mussels are well washed in cold water (if mollusks are frozen, first defrost them in cold water). Then mussels are placed in a bowl (non-plastic) and poured with steep boiling water. We wait 1-2 minutes and drain the water. If there are mussels that have not opened, open them with a knife, break one of the leaves, and the second leaf, in which the body of the mussel is left, is placed on a dish.
Now we filter the marinade through a strainer and water them every mussel in the sash. We make a dish with mussels fresh greens. We serve with any white or pink wine, brandy, grappa, rum, tequila or dark home beer .
Those who can not find fresh mussels on sale can be recommended to prepare dishes from frozen shellfish.
Dish from boiled mussels and shrimps
Ingredients:
- frozen mussels - 300 g;
- shrimps of medium size - 300 g;
- olive oil;
- white strong unsweetened wine (Madera or sherry) - 100 ml;
- cream natural milk - 100 ml;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- ginger root fresh - 1 pc .;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- sweet red pepper;
- red hot pepper;
- rice ready boiled crumbly - 2-5 st. spoons;
- lime or lemon;
- fresh fresh herbs (parsley, coriander, basil, rosemary, dill - do not).
Preparation
Shrimp boil in boiling water for 5 minutes (no more), then drain the water, cool and remove the chitinous shell.
Mussels are thawed, washed, poured in a separate saucepan with boiling water and cook for 1 minute. Drain, cool and open the sinks, if they do not open themselves, then remove the edible part - muscle.
We chop the onion with semicircles, and the sweet pepper with short straws.
Well, we burn the deep frying pan and fry the mussels, shrimps and onions with pepper for 3 minutes on high heat. Reduce fire, add wine and hot red pepper. Stew for another 3 minutes, stirring, and add about 300-400 ml of boiled hot water, boiled rice and cream. Turn off the fire and let the soup brew under the cover for about 8-16 minutes.
Ready soup is poured into soup cups. In each cup we put on a lime slice - this will give the taste a special shade. Sprinkle the soup in the cups with chopped herbs and garlic. To the soup we serve the same wine with which we prepared soup or any light, better strong.