The scallop meat used in cooking is rich in minerals, proteins, vitamins and carbohydrates. Its systematic use positively affects human health: improves metabolism and increases the overall tone of the body.
You can cook scallops with sauce according to this recipe. Boil the sea scallop , cut into strips, pour the sour cream sauce and boil for a couple of minutes. Serve it, sprinkled with herbs, you can with mashed potatoes, rice, pasta or just potatoes, boiled slices.
A set of products: 300 g of scallop, the same amount of sour cream, salt and spices to taste.
For the preparation of cutlets, you can use not only meat, but also scallops. How to cook? Just like ordinary cutlets. Grind the scallop washed and squeezed from the water in a meat grinder. Add to the resulting mass onion, white bread with a cut crust and soaked in milk, pepper, butter, salt, mix all the ingredients and grind in a meat grinder again. Divide the resulting mixture into small cakes, in the center of which put the minced meat, and form cutlets.
Stuffing is prepared from porcini mushrooms, previously boiled, cut into strips, washed, and then fried in vegetable oil. Chilled minced meat is mixed with butter, herbs and used for filling. Formed cutlets, you must first roll in wheat flour, dip in a beaten egg, and then in breadcrumbs for breading. Fat for frying cutlets should be a lot in the pan.
As a side dish , eggplant, fried zucchini, cauliflower or green peas are suitable for scallops.
Ingredients for cutlets: 250-300 g of scallop, white bread - a few small slices, a couple of onions, salt, a spoonful of butter and wheat flour, pepper, half a glass of vegetable oil, an egg.
Ingredients for minced meat: chopped green onions - one spoon, dried mushrooms - pieces 2-3, 2 tablespoons butter.
Scallop recipes are more diverse than you might expect.
For example, scallops are also suitable for aspic. How to cook jellied from the muscles of scallop on bread, the following recipe will tell. Thaw the scallop muscles, if necessary, rinse thoroughly under running water, put in boiling and salted water. It is necessary to observe the ratio of water to meat 3: 1. Wait for the moment to boil and, counting from it, boil another ten minutes. Put the finished scallop meat in a sieve or colander and, after letting the liquid drain, cut the meat into circles weighing 6-8 grams. Pour a little jelly into the deep dish when it hardens, put on the top boiled scallop meat at the rate of 2-3 circles per serving and garnish with greens. Pour all the cold, but not yet frozen jelly and bring to the cold until completely solidified. Serving jelly, you need to cut into portions of grams of 20-25 each and put on a slice of bread.
Components per serving: 120 g of scallop muscle, 100 g of jelly, herbs and 150 g of bread.
It is even easier to build an elementary sandwich using non-fish products of the sea: squid, shrimp or scallops. How to cook? Boil the scallop muscles, cut, lay on slices of bread and pour in mayonnaise. It is not superfluous to decorate the sandwich with slices of fresh vegetables (tomato, cucumbers), lettuce. For 100 g of boiled seafood, you need to take 80 g of vegetables, 20 g of salad leaves, a couple of spoons of mayonnaise and 200 g of bread (preferably wheat).
Scallops are good as cold snacks. How to cook such a dish? Very simple. Sea scallop meat (200 g), dip in water, in which salt, carrots, pepper and parsley root are added . Boil for about ten minutes. Leave the scallops to cool in the same broth. Then cut the meat into thin slices, put on a plate, and put a thinly sliced lemon (1/2 lemon) next to it. Pickled vegetables (pepper, cucumber, tomatoes - 300 g) are suitable for scallop. Salt, carrots, pepper and parsley root for the broth add to taste.
Of course, scallop dishes are not limited to these recipes, because it can also be fried, stewed, used in salads.