Seafood has long ceased to be exotic: in any supermarket at any time of the year you can buy seafood mix: a mixture of shrimp, octopus, squid and mussels. But there is little to buy a semi-finished product, you also need to be able to apply it correctly. Knowing how to cook seafood mix, you can surprise your guests with delicious dishes.

Benefit or harm

Seafood is a symbol of healthy eating. Protein-rich and at the same time, lean, with a delicate flavor and delicate aroma, nutritious diet and seafood are the basis for the preparation of a variety of delicious dishes. They are believed to help to lose weight and are used for prevention of various diseases of the cardiovascular system. Due to the high content of iodine, seafood is very good for health of both adults and children.

Seafood people began to eat even in ancient times. Preserved recipes that are still used antique cook, but it is likely that before the "fruits of the sea" is actively used as food by those who lived on the coast.

Unfortunately, the water in the ocean is not as clean as in ancient times. Accordingly, the inhabitants of the sea often contain a lot of potentially dangerous substances - from heavy metal salts to the mercury. This applies both to fish and aquatic invertebrates - octopus, squid, mussels and shrimp. Therefore it is important to buy seafood from a reputable manufacturer with a good reputation and pamper yourself with a cocktail from the sea Dish of seafood cocktail: always delicious   not every day.

How to choose and how to prepare seafood mix

Seafood perishable, so fresh they traditionally eaten only on the sea coasts. Seafood production immediately after boiled and frozen by the "shock freezing", which allows you to keep all the nutrients and, more importantly, good taste and delicate flavor.

Buying refrigerated seafood - it's always a risk, so experts advise to buy it frozen seafood mix. Not the best option - the purchase of such mixtures by weight. It is better to buy Packaged products, and it is desirable that the bags were transparent "windows" through which you can see part of the cocktail. Pieces of seafood should be neat, straight, natural shades. Frozen cooked mussels - light yellow, squid rings - milky white, octopus - pale lilac and shrimp - light pink.

And one more important detail. If the package can be seen with seafood ice crystals, it means that the seafood mix properly stored and subjected to repeated freeze - this product is better not to take.

Properly selected seafood mix can be the basis for the different dishes - appetizers Low calorie snacks , Salads, soups, hot. Since all seafood before freezing subjected to a heat treatment during their preparation is minimal.

No need for a prolonged heat treatment is not - in most cases, simply defrost seafood mixture and bring it to the desired temperature.

Cooking Seafood Cocktail

Cooking, quick frying, stewing or roasting sauce - ways of preparing seafood cocktails are very numerous. From this semi-finished product, you can make a variety of delicious and healthy diet meals. Perhaps each chef has his own signature cocktail recipe sea, but the principles of treatment are very similar.

How to cook seafood mix? First of all, it should be remembered that, like other products subjected to freezing, seafood mix in any case should not be thawed before cooking. During defrosting delicate seafood lose moisture and become hard and tasteless. Therefore, you should omit them only in boiling salted liquid.

Typically, seafood mix boil in boiling water, but possible options. For example, a fish or vegetable broth. Especially delicate flavor will get seafood when boil them in salted water with the addition of herbs - dill, parsley, bay leaf. For the preparation of festive dishes instead of water use dry white wine - it gives seafood exquisite delicate taste.

Cook seafood to be very long. When the contents of the package will be in the pot of water, boil stop. As soon as it resumes again, the fire can be turned off. After that, the pan should cover and leave for a minute or two, and then drain the water: sea cocktail cooked.

Roasting - less common way of cooking. It is heat the oil (preferably olive, but can be used and refined sunflower) to the pan and pour the frozen seafood mix. Fry two or three minutes, stirring occasionally. The dish is ready when seafood are tender.

Boiled or fried seafood pour sauce or added to salads. Sauces are best used with slight acidity that perfectly emphasize the refined taste. It goes well with seafood cocktail Seafood Cocktail: for all occasions   sauces or sour cream base, gourmets prefer tomato sauce, perhaps with the addition of pepper and garlic.

If you want to have infiltrated the seafood flavors of the sauce, it is best to bake or stew sea cocktail sauce. In this case, the cooking time can be increased to ten or even fifteen minutes to an hour. Ready sea cocktail sauce is good with any side dish (spaghetti, boiled rice, tender vegetables) or by itself.

Maria Bykov

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