Sea cocktail: how to cook salads, snacks, second courses with him

It should be noted that the sea cocktail is a very convenient thing. First, this produt is not that expensive. Secondly, seafood is a dietary dish, both nutritious and rich in protein, phosphorus and other vitamins and microelements. The sea cocktail is very useful for those who carefully monitor their weight, being afraid of "eating superfluous." Thirdly, it is difficult to make the kids eat fish as such, but they certainly will like the options from the sea cocktail. And fourth, from it you can prepare a variety of dishes that will take a worthy place on both the festive and the everyday table.

A sea cocktail can be bought already ready, i.e. prepacked. In the package you will find an assortment of sea "reptiles": mussels, squid, shrimp, octopus. But if you, for example, adore shrimp, and octopuses do not like you, you can independently "work" on composing an author's sea cocktail right in the store, buying for it those products that you will then eat with pleasure.

Sea cocktail: how to prepare a salad with it

Sea cocktail throw into boiling water and cook for several minutes. Over time, it is important not to overdo it, otherwise the seafood will become harsh (especially in the case of squid). Therefore, five minutes will be more than enough.

Cut the red Bulgarian pepper into thin strips. Whisk olive oil (1 tablespoon), mayonnaise (1 tablespoon) and 1-2 slices of garlic squeezed through a press. It will be a refueling for a cocktail.

In the colander, throw away the ready-made sea cocktail, pour cold water, as you do with pasta, and mix with pepper. Sprinkle the mixture with lemon juice. On the plates, lay lettuce leaves, put a salad on top of them and pour each serving with a dressing. On top decorate your sea cocktail with a slice of lemon or lime, red eggs and fresh green leaves.

This salad also has variations. More refined and hearty will be a salad cocktail with chicken, seafood and avocado. Seafood can either be boiled, as in the previous version, or a little fry in a pan. Chicken fillet cut into thin strips and fry until a ruddy crust (you can just boil it). Avocado clean, and cut into cubes. To fill this version of salad with a sea cocktail follows a mixture of soy sauce, chopped garlic, lime juice and spring onions.

Sea cocktail: how to cook with him julienne

Seafood (400 g) throw in a pan of cold water, put on fire and wait for the moment of boiling. Now add water, throw a few peas of black pepper and laurel leaves. After two minutes we throw off the sea cocktail in a colander.

Melt butter on a skillet (70 g) and fry until golden in color. 2 finely chopped onions. Put a sea cocktail to the onion, mix everything, add the flour (2 tablespoons) and pour the cream (250 ml). Once the contents of the frying pan boil, salt, pepper to taste and add a pinch of nutmeg. Stir and immediately turn off the heat.

Spread the future julienne in the muffins, sprinkle each portion with grated cheese and remove everything in a preheated oven to 200 degrees. Bake until the appearance of a golden crust on the cheese - practice shows that it takes about 15 minutes.

Sea cocktail: how to cook rice with it

A sea cocktail with rice is a nutritious and tasty dish, which is perfect for a usual or romantic dinner, and as a hot dish on a festive table. Boil a glass of well-washed rice so that it turns friable, i.e. Water, take twice as much (2 cups), and pour the croup not into cold water, but already into boiling and salted water. You can also add a spoonful of olive oil.

Finely chop the onion. One carrot cut into thin strips or grate on a special grater for carrots in Korean. Bulgarian pepper also grind in the form of straws, and two cloves of garlic through the press.

Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and add the onions with garlic. Pass a couple of minutes over medium heat. Now add the carrots and fry for another 5 minutes. Then comes the turn of the Bulgarian pepper, as well as canned corn without liquid (3 tablespoons). Salt, pepper to taste, stir the contents of the frying pan. After another 5 minutes pour in a dry white wine (a quarter of a glass) and cook until it evaporates, that is 3-4 minutes. Now put into the frying pan ready rice, chopped fresh herbs and seafood (200 g). Stir gently, bring to a boil and cook for another 5 minutes.

Now you know everything about the sea cocktail - how to cook and what to serve. Bon Appetit!