In stores, you can find on sale assorted seafood, the so-called sea cocktail. Today, cocktail dishes are becoming increasingly popular, but not everyone knows how to use it.
Many housewives are interested in the questions: what is included in a sea cocktail and can it be consumed immediately, or is it necessary to heat treatment? And if heat treatment is required, then how much to cook a sea cocktail? The composition of a sea cocktail may include various seafood: squid, shrimp, octopus, mussels, shells and so on. If this product is frozen, then minimal heat treatment is required - just boil it in slightly salted boiling water without defrosting for only 3-4 minutes. And if it is packed in a sealed package with an oil solution, then no heat treatment is necessary.
Delicious salads are prepared from a sea cocktail. One small pack of ready-made sea cocktail is enough to prepare two servings of salad.
You will need a couple more olives, a small bunch of green onions, mayonnaise, sweet bell pepper - 1 piece, 2 pieces of potatoes and one hard-boiled chicken egg.
Green onions are washed and finely chopped, peppers are peeled from seeds and cut into strips. Egg and potatoes are boiled, cooled and diced. We take the sea cocktail from the bag, boil it in salted boiling water and put it on a sieve. When the cocktail cools down, mix it with the rest of the ingredients, add the olives, season with mayonnaise and garnish with lemon slices.
Sea cocktail is a healthy and very easily digestible dish that is more often used as an appetizer, but if you put it out, it can be a hot dish.
To prepare four servings, you need to take the following ingredients: 0.5 kilograms of the prepared sea cocktail, two carrots and the same amount of onions, 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise, 50 grams of butter, 0.5 liters of milk, juice of one orange, salt and black pepper taste. Peel the carrots and grate, finely chop the onion and spread everything into a fairly deep skillet. All this is poured with milk, orange juice, oil and mayonnaise are added and put on fire. The dish is stewed over low heat under the lid for an hour. Salt and pepper are added at the very end, when almost all of the liquid has boiled away.
With a sea cocktail you can cook a delicious pasta with cream. To do this, preparing a sea cocktail does not take long, it is boiled in boiling water and discarded in a colander. Water is not poured - you can boil macoroni or spaghetti (400 grams) on it. Olive oil is poured into the pan and finely chopped onions are fried until transparent. Chop the garlic and add to the onion.
Now a sea cocktail is added to the pan and fried for several minutes. The dish needs to be salt and pepper to taste, and then pour with twenty percent cream (200 grams). The resulting sauce is cooked for another five minutes until cooked. Boiled pasta or spaghetti is poured with sauce and sprinkled with grated cheese on top. Any hard cheese, such as parmesan, is suitable for this.
Julienne turns out to be very tasty from a sea cocktail A sea cocktail, even without defrosting, pour cold water, put on fire and bring to a boil. Do not forget to salt, add bay leaf and a few peas of black pepper. After boiling, turn off the stove, drain the water, and put the sea cocktail on a greased form with butter.
Now you need to make the sauce. To do this, on a dry frying pan, brown a tablespoon of flour, add a piece of butter and mix everything until the butter has completely melted. Now add cream here, bring everything to a boil, then add salt and pepper, add nutmeg for a special taste (you can also without it, only in this case all the charm will be lost), pour the sauce and sea cocktail in this sauce, sprinkle with grated cheese on top and in an oven preheated to 200 degrees until an appetizing crust is formed.
Everything, you can invite your husband, children and mother-in-law to the table and get ready to listen to compliments.