Modern grocery stores offer their visitors such a wide range of products, but sometimes it’s not even clear that one can cook from one dish or another. For example, amazing clams, tasty and healthy - do you have an idea about how to cook frozen mussels so that all their fabulous taste is revealed, how not to spoil their tender “meat” and please all the connoisseurs and admirers of your culinary talent?
There are a lot of various recipes that allow you to cook mussels deliciously, and their number grows annually, about as fast as the popularity of these mollusks themselves. Many people like them for an unusual taste, someone likes the speed of their processing more, and for someone else their ability to satisfy hunger without settling in the form of extra pounds is important. In addition, there are real gourmets who like to experiment with this product, preparing it in different ways, adding various sauces and seasonings. It is these recipes that are used by professional chefs who can turn mussels into an exquisite “highlight” of any upscale restaurant.
If you want to know how to cook frozen mussels in the best way, refer to the Greek pilaf recipe, which will require shellfish (500 gr.), Some olive oil and rice (450 gr.). In addition, you need to take a sufficient amount of water (about 900 ml.), Onions (1 goal.) And carrots (1 pc.), Not to mention spices (salt, different types of pepper and turmeric - the minimum set). First of all, it is necessary to peel and chop carrots with onions, and then fry them in oil in a thick-walled pan or in a cauldron until the vegetables acquire an appetizing golden hue. Then you can send mussels there - thawed, peeled and well washed, and after five minutes of intensive mixing, washed rice grains can be added to them. The prepared pilaf should be sprinkled with spices to taste, diluted slightly with water so that the rice does not burn, and stir from time to time. As soon as the pilaf is ready - after about a quarter of an hour - you can put a couple of cloves of garlic in it for an even more seductive flavor, let it brew under the lid for several minutes and send it to the table.
And the next recipe on how to cook frozen mussels is very tasty, proposes to create a wonderful open pie, which in addition to mollusks includes salmon and green beans. To do this, you will have to take the following ingredients: finished dough (900 gr.), And mussels (250 gr.), Salmon (150 gr.), Green beans (200 gr.) Will serve as the filling. You will also need to take cheese (100 gr.), Eggs (4 pcs.), Carrots (1 pc.), As well as milk, bread crumbs and spices. The dough should be rolled out and put on a greased form, then sent to the cold for a quarter of an hour, and at this time boil the beans in water with lemon juice, mix with squeezed garlic and set aside, soak. Before preparing frozen mussels , they should be boiled with salmon, then mix the mussels with grated carrots and garlic residues, sort the fish, removing bones and breaking them into small pieces. At the last stage, the filling is finally combined and laid out on chilled dough, sprinkled with a mixture of grated cheese (it is best to choose hard varieties) and bread crumbs. After that, it remains only to beat the eggs with milk, fill them with the form and transfer it to the oven for a period of half an hour to 40 minutes.
And if you want to know how to cook mussels in shells, write down another small recipe: boil the clams in water, acidified with lemon juice, until the leaves open, pour the same juice and serve to the table still hot with tomato, soy or garlic sauces.