Mussels are a special seafood. Handling it requires certain skills. But those who have several signature recipes in store will surely be able to surprise family and friends with original, spicy dishes.
Such an egg
Suppose you are planning a romantic evening, you want to cook something "sort of", but there is almost no time. Drop into the seafood store, and we will tell you how to cook mussels, peeled, frozen. In addition to clam meat, you will need a few eggs, a couple of tomatoes, onion, salt, pepper, spices. Cut and fry the onion in a sufficient amount of oil. Put frozen mussel meat , let it simmer a little. Break eggs, shake until smooth and pour in a skillet. Salt, mix. When the scrambled eggs “seize”, put the tomatoes sliced into small slices and simmer under the lid over low heat until cooked. Sprinkle with pepper, coriander. You can add a couple of cloves of garlic. Mussels taste like mushrooms. This is the first option, how to cook peeled, frozen mussels in haste.
Pilaf "Sea"
We all know well that pilaf is a meat dish and is prepared with lamb or pork. Down with the stereotypes! Strain your imagination and find out a completely original recipe. Here's how to cook peeled, frozen mussels in pilaf. We need: the meat itself - 200-300 grams or more - as you like. A few stalks of young onions with feathers. Cooking butter, chicken stock, cream,
white wine or cider. Salt, spices, pepper. So: finely chop the onion, fry until golden in butter. You need to do this in that cast iron where pilaf will cook. Pour a glass of rice into the frying pan. Add 2 cups of chicken or other meat broth and half a glass of alcohol. If necessary, pour in water, let it boil. Then reduce the fire and simmer for 20 minutes. The second stage of how to cook mussels - peeled, frozen, - in fact, put the clam meat itself and cook for another 7 minutes. At the end, cream is added to the pan - half a glass, salt, seasonings, spices, black pepper. Then remove the cast iron from the stove, and let it sit under the lid. Everything, pilaf "Sea" is ready!
Mussels with sauce
The meat from the mussel shells is very tasty and nutritious. It surpasses livestock meat and mushrooms in the amount of protein. The useful properties of seafood can not be counted, so it is often served in restaurants as a specialty. Let us and we discuss how to cook frozen mussels, for example, in sauce.
Ingredients : olive oil - 50 g; large onion, chopped into small cubes; balsamic vinegar or other - grape, apple; pickled tomatoes (fresh can be) - 400 g; sugar - 1 spoon (tablespoon); sauce for fish - 3-4 tablespoons; several cloves of garlic squeezed through the garlic; salt to taste; soy sauce; half a glass of white wine; a kilogram of mussel meat; 200 g chopped green onions.
How to cook frozen mussels? Preheat the pan, fry the onion in oil until golden brown. Add vinegar, wait to evaporate. Put tomatoes sliced in a frying pan, put sugar, fish sauce, garlic, soy sauce (a couple of spoons), pour the wine. Cut a bunch of parsley and also send to the pan. To salt. It should be clarified: the amount of salt, sugar, wine and vinegar can be adjusted to your liking. Then put the thoroughly washed mussels and simmer for 5-7 minutes over low heat. Just remember to stir. Rinse the shells, put them on a dish, fill them with meat sauce. Sprinkle with chopped herbs. Serve with French bread or white loaf.
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