Shrimps are tasty and healthy, they are a great addition to salads and main dishes, and boiled or fried in themselves are a self-sufficient dish and a wonderful snack for beer and wine. The store shelves are filled with a variety of species of these wonderful crustaceans, from very small to royal, reaching thirty centimeters in length. The shrimp meat is white, tender, fairly dense and, as noted by many millions of lovers of this
delicacy, delicious. It is not only tasty, but also a real storehouse of unique nutrients, it also has very little fat, so this product belongs to low-calorie and dietary.
There are a lot of ways to cook shrimp . In Europe, Asia and America, each nation has its own recipes. The Italians, of course, make pasta sauce from them, the Japanese make sushi with them incomparably, the Chinese fry shrimps with vegetables, and the French gourmets add a lot of different herbs to them, giving delicate meat a few delicious spicy notes. Shrimp was not consumed in Russian cuisine, this product has always been considered exotic and overseas, so we cook them in a variety of ways, adopting the best from different cuisines. But, before cooking shrimp dishes, you need to know how to cook shrimps to emphasize their taste, and not to "kill". There is one very important rule: boil shrimps for no more than 7-10 minutes, throwing them into boiling water. Otherwise, tender meat turns into stiff and loses taste.
So, how to cook shrimp in the most common way. Crustaceans are immersed in a pot of boiling water and added salt and boiled at a moderate temperature for several minutes after secondary boiling. Frozen shrimp is thrown into the water without defrosting, but before being lowered into water, poured with boiling water. During the boil, add various spices as desired and literally a few drops of table vinegar. Shrimp meat goes well with bay leaf, dill, allspice, parsley and thyme. Before you enjoy the dish, you can sprinkle it with lemon juice, but just a little bit.
How to cook shrimp in another way? There is a cooking method where shrimps are languished in a mixture of vegetables, seasonings, with the addition of white wine. This recipe is well known in southern Europe. So, how to cook shrimp in the Mediterranean. In a pan with high walls, or in a flat wide pan, warm olive oil and lightly fry the onions and garlic, then throw finely grated stem celery. Two minutes later, finely chopped tomatoes and peppers are sent to the pan, salt and pepper, a quarter of a glass of wine and a spoonful of tomato puree are poured. After twenty minutes of simmering over a low heat, peeled shrimp is immersed in this mixture and boiled for another five minutes. This is such an exotic way, how to cook shrimp, but very tasty. Give it a try.
To make a seafood dish delicious, it is important not only to know how to cook shrimp, but also to be able to choose them correctly. The most significant signs of a good and high-quality product are the shape in the form of a “squiggle”, an even and pleasant pale pink color in small species and dark gray in king prawns. There should not be black dots or yellow spots on the shell and head of the crustaceans. Finally, in a qualitatively frozen product there cannot be a lot of snow and a thick ice crust.
Shrimps are sold in shell and peeled, without shell, often freeze already cooked product. Shrimp in shell is very convenient to cook. By its color, you can immediately determine the degree of their readiness, in cooked shrimp it becomes bright orange. How to cook shrimp in shell? The methods are the same, only before cooking they should be washed thoroughly and sorted out.