To prepare delicious dishes from scallops, you first need to know how to process it. Typically, scallops go on sale in frozen form. At home, scallop meat can be thawed by pouring cold water in an ordinary pan for a couple of hours. Thawed meat is used raw for frying or boiled. To boil scallop meat well, put it in salted boiling water (one or two teaspoons of salt per liter of water) and cook for 10-15 minutes. To give the meat a flavor, add pepper, celery or parsley roots , carrots to the water. Finished meat is cut into slices, cubes across the fibers or divided into fibers immediately.
A salad of seemingly familiar products will be made unusual and festive by scallops added to it. There is more than one recipe. For example, a salad of scallop muscle with apples and cabbage, which will require the following set of products: 200 g of raw cabbage, 400 g of scallop meat, 2 fresh apples, 10 olives, 3 boiled eggs, 70 g of mayonnaise, salt.
Boil scallop muscle and chop. Shred cabbage thinly and gently rub with salt. Peel the apples from the core and peel, cut into slices, and also cut the egg whites. Combine all the ingredients, add salt and season with mayonnaise. To prevent apples from darkening, they must be cleaned and cut immediately before dressing the salad with mayonnaise. Transfer the salad into a salad bowl, garnish with chopped yolk, herbs and pitted olives.
Or, for example, scallops prepared in this way. The recipe is simple. Scallop muscle also needs to be boiled, cooled and cut into pieces across the fibers. Cut the eggs into slices and pickled pepper into strips. Hold the scallop meat for half an hour in a pepper marinade, then remove, decant the liquid, mix with eggs and pepper and season with mayonnaise. Garnish one half of the salad in the salad bowl with chopped yolk, and the other with protein. Ingredients for this salad: 400 g of scallop meat, 200 g of red Bulgarian pickled pepper, 4 boiled eggs, 0.5 packs of mayonnaise, salt.
Banal vegetable soup can be greatly ennobled by adding scallops to it. Recipe for vegetable soup with scallops. Components for the dish: 300 g of scallop meat, one liter of water, 200 grams of fresh cabbage, 4 potatoes, 1 carrot, 2 medium onion heads, one parsley root, 3 tablespoons of green beans and 3 tablespoons of green peas, 2 fresh tomatoes, any fat , spices, salt. Put peas, beans, cabbage and potatoes in boiling water, boil until half cooked and add toasted tomatoes. 15 minutes before the soup is ready, put in it a scallop, sliced and fried with onions, carrots and parsley. Before serving soup, pour sour cream on it and sprinkle with chopped herbs.
Fried scallops are no less tasty. Cut scallop meat into pieces, designed for one person, add salt, sprinkle with pepper, dip in flour, then in egg and breaded in breadcrumbs. Put in a preheated pan with enough fat to those. Pore, until a crispy light brown crust forms. Before serving, sprinkle scallops with chopped herbs and pour oil. The scallop goes well to the side dish. Ingredients: 500 g of scallop meat, 2 raw eggs, 2 tablespoons of wheat flour and breadcrumbs for breading, salt, spices.
Non-fish seafood can also be baked in the oven, including scallops. The recipe for scallop baked with mushrooms is as follows: take 300-400 g of scallop meat, 2-3 dried mushrooms, 2-3 small heads of onions, 300 g of sour cream, 1 tablespoon of butter, salt and pepper. Scallop muscle and mushrooms must first be boiled. Then divide the scallop meat across the fibers and cut into strips. Fry finely chopped onions with the addition of mushrooms, cut into small pieces, for 4 minutes. Combine scallops with onions and mushrooms, salt and pepper. Pour part of the sauce into the bottom of the form, put the prepared mass on it, pour the remaining sauce and butter on top. Sprinkle the top of the dish with grated hard cheese and put in the oven to bake. Instead of sour cream sauce, you can use tomato.