Seafood has ceased to be exotic.
For the preparation of delicious dishes from a frozen sea cocktail, it does not necessarily have to be a sophisticated cook. Seafood is a storehouse of minerals and trace elements. Frozen sea cocktail has a very low calorie content. Seafood platter can safely be consumed even by people with diabetes.
The frozen sea cocktail includes: mussels, shrimps, octopus, squid , rapans, sometimes lobsters. All components of the mixture are present in different proportions. Most often, seafood is packaged in bags from 400 g to 1500 g.
When buying frozen foods, there are two questions: do you need to defrost seafood and how long to cook a frozen sea cocktail?
How to cook a frozen sea cocktail?
Famous chefs recommend pouring the contents out of the package into boiling water without defrosting, otherwise instead of holistic, pleasant-looking ingredients, you will get a mushy mass. Ideal cooking - 15 minutes.
Most people are seafood lovers, but there are those who do not tolerate them. We assure you: they ate improperly cooked meals. By the way, from the inhabitants of the sea you can prepare soup, salad and hot.
Recipes of several wonderful dishes from the frozen sea cocktail we want to offer you.
Seafood soup
This unusual soup is very easy to cook, having spent half an hour cooking.
Ingredients:
- sea cocktail - 1 packet (weight 400 - 450 g);
- white wine (dry) - half glass;
- vegetables (carrots, celery root, leeks, onions) - 1 piece;
- olive oil - a little for frying;
- black pepper - 10 peas;
- fresh greens.
Preparation
Clean the celery, cut it. Carrots, onions, sliced, fried. Spread the vegetables in the boiling water. Boil for 20 minutes, filter the resulting broth, pour the wine, again leave on fire to a boil.
The washed sea cocktail is scalded with boiling water, we combine it with vegetable broth and take it for about 15 minutes. Sprinkle with greens the ready-made soup.
Dish from seafood and mushrooms
Ingredients:
- sea cocktail - 1 packet (weighing 1000 g);
- cream - 400 g;
- champignons - 400 g;
- flour - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- butter - 150 g;
- onions - 2 pcs. (large);
- cheese - 400 g;
- bay leaf - 5 leaves.
Preparation
Seafood is boiled, adding salt, we throw laurel leaves, then merge the broth that is useless. Fry mushrooms and onions, add the flour, boiled sea cocktail, pour cream, pepper and salt into the frying pan. The contents are laid out in a voluminous form and, sprinkling with cheese, at a temperature of 180 ° C we cook in the oven.
The products in this quantity are designed for 8 people.
Note
You can use small molds for personal portions instead of a large form, so that the dish you have prepared will look especially presentable.
Sea cocktail with pasta (or rice)
Ingredients:
- pasta - 300 g (or 250 grams of rice);
- sea cocktail - 1 packet (usually its weight is 450 - 500 g);
- cream - 200 g;
- Sunflower deodorized oil - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- tomato - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- a few twigs of parsley;
- butter - 50 g.
Preparation
Boiled, but slightly undercooked until ready, pasta (or rice) we put in a colander, removing water. We spread the seafood in a frying pan with butter. Lightly fry, add tomato, cream. Pour out the same pasta (or rice) and stew for 15 minutes. Cook the prepared dish into a three-dimensional plate and sprinkle with parsley.
Cooked seafood dishes will please your family and you will repeat them for an encore more than once!