Seafood Cocktail. Salad and other delicious dishes

Seafood in Russian cooking is becoming more popular. Not so long ago, seafood appeared in our kitchens, and cooking methods, recipes for a wide variety of dishes with them and from them appeared a lot: salads, hot snacks, pizza.

In the sale of shrimp, squid, mussels, octopuses, usually come in frozen form. These can be individual packages of each product, or an already prepared mixture of various seafood. Assorted it usually consists of the same, the above products. It is called the "sea cocktail", the salad from it became almost mandatory, traditional for the festive table.

Japanese salad

Take the usual set of frozen seafood (peeled mussels, shrimps, "rings" of squid and octopus - 500 grams), boil for two minutes in boiling water, folded into a colander. We prepare friable rice (a glass of rice cook in a liter of water).

Finely chopped garlic (2-3 large cloves) fry in vegetable oil, add soy sauce (one to two tablespoons).

All the finished products (cocktail, rice, sauce) are cooled, mixed and add the juice of one lemon.

There is no exact information that in Japan they eat just the cooked sea cocktail. This salad can be diversified by adding a small amount of stewed vegetables - celery root, sweet pepper, pumpkin.

A sea cocktail, a salad, a hot dish made from it, or a cold snack, a pizza toppings - all this can be of the most varied taste and not be repeated if you mix the seafood mixture yourself, changing their proportional proportions, and even adding other, not so common , Products. For example, meat scallops, canned crabs, finally, crab sticks.

Slimming and diet are often recommended for a sea cocktail. Ways of making it as an independent dish are varied, the simplest and low-calorie recipe is available even for a beginner cook.

Sea cocktail in marinade

In the finished mixture, all the ingredients of this dish are already available, but if not, we need two portions of peeled shrimps and mussels (200 grams), squid and octopus (100 grams each). In boiling water, cook all the components of the cocktail for no more than two minutes.

For the marinade mix olive oil (a quarter of a glass), a teaspoon of wine vinegar, juice of one lemon, salt, red and black ground pepper on the tip of the knife. We put the boiled seafood in a wide glass or kremanku, fill them with marinade, decorate with a slice of lemon.

The next dish, which we propose to cook, always causes an enthusiastic exclamation "How delicious!". Prepare a sea cocktail as an exquisite French julien can be in 15 minutes, but it is difficult to call it diet.

Julienne Seafood

We need to pack a sea cocktail (500 grams), two tablespoons of wheat flour, 200 grams of fatty cream, a little butter, 100 grams of grated hard cheese, black peppercorns, 3-5 leaves of bay leaves, two medium sized bulbs, grated nutmeg .

In salted boiling water with spices (bay leaf and pepper) boil seafood for no more than two minutes, then drain the water.

Melt the butter in the saucepan and fry in it chopped onions. Boiled shrimps, mussels, squid, octopus are added to the onions, mix and add cream. As soon as the mixture boils, remove from heat. Add the nutmeg.

Grated cheese, sprinkle the dish and put in a heated to 180 degrees oven for twenty minutes. As soon as the golden crust appeared, our julienne is ready.

A wonderful product is a frozen sea cocktail. Salad or a delicacy from it can be cooked quickly and without much trouble.