How to cook a delicious shrimp soup at home

Shrimp soup is a delicious and easy-to-prepare dish, it is often served in elite restaurants. Any housewife will be able to cook such a light soup at home - in time the process takes no more than an hour, it is very convenient in the condition of lack of time.

A pleasant combination of cream and shrimp gives an amazingly delicate taste and a delicate aroma of seafood, which will please even the most sophisticated gourmet. A little later we will tell you how to prepare cream soup from shrimps.

Composition and useful properties of shrimps

In addition, that shrimps are very useful, so they are also low-calorie (for 100 grams of the product only 95 kcal), so they are recommended for people who watch their own weight. Also, they contain fifty times more useful micronutrients than meat.

They are composed of: iron, iodine, phosphorus, sodium, sulfur, potassium, magnesium, calcium, copper, zinc, manganese, fluorine, etc. They are rich in vitamins A, C, E, PP and a group of vitamins B (B3, B1, B9, B6 and B12).

High content of minerals, fatty acids and nutrients helps to strengthen the human immune system and maintain a hormonal background. Potassium helps to normalize the work of the nervous system and strengthen the vessels. Vitamin E prevents skin aging earlier, makes it supple and youthful.

Zinc is responsible for the condition of our nails and hair, and also helps the rapid healing of various skin lesions. Calcium, as is known, helps to strengthen and restore teeth and bones. This is a wonderful seafood, which has no contraindications, so it can be given to even small children without worrying about allergic reactions.

This seafood is often used in cooking, it adds a spicy taste and a superb taste, incomparable to nothing else. Today we will share a few delicious recipes, the main ingredient of which will be shrimp.

Shrimp cream soup with croutons

We will need:

• Freshly frozen shrimps - half a kilogram;
• A glass of pasteurized milk ;
• Butter 30 g;
• Wheat flour 20 g;
• Onions, carrots;
• Eight pieces of toast;
• Yolk of one egg.

Boiled shrimp in salted water is cleaned from the shell and cut into several parts. The remaining broth after shrimp is not poured. Wheat flour must be dried in a frying pan until a light yellow shade, allow it to cool slightly and gently dilute with broth.

Cut the shrimps with vegetables (onions and carrots) in butter - you can add a little broth. Then the resulting mass is passed through a meat grinder or a blender. In the mince of seafood, add a small amount of broth and flour, again sent to cook for just ten minutes.

While the shrimp soup is on fire, we prepare the egg-milk mass. Take the yolk and gradually add it to the hot milk - cook until a thick, uniform consistency is formed. In a cooled soup we pour our delicious mass and serve croutons. You can use greens for decoration.

Spicy shrimp soup with mushrooms

Ingredients:

• Champignons or oyster mushrooms 300 gr .;
• The same amount of shrimp;
• egg;
• Liter of mushroom broth ;
• Milk 50 g;
• butter;
• Vegetables (onions, garlic, carrots, green peas);
• Dill, coriander.

Washed prawns cook until ready, clean and cool. Broth, which cooked crustaceans, it is necessary to strain, then add the sliced mushrooms, cream onion and carrots and green peas, spread on butter.

Boil the vegetables with mushrooms for ten minutes, then add the purified seafood and egg-milk mixture. Prepare the mass as follows: combine the egg with milk and butter, mix well. Prepare the soup of shrimp and mushrooms in a blender and sprinkle it with chopped herbs. It turns out a delicate, fragrant cream-soup - you will lick your fingers!

To our great regret, there is a very unfavorable ecological situation on our planet that affects the quality of all products, including crustaceans, which accumulate all toxic substances. Shrimps caught in the most polluted countries are the most dangerous for health.

Therefore, it is highly discouraged to purchase seafood from suspicious and untested suppliers. When choosing, pay attention to the color of the head of the crustacean: if it is a black shade, this indicates an incorrect storage of the product and its deterioration. Cook with pleasure only from quality products!