Few people are ready, not crooked, to say that they hate seafood. Almost everyone loves them. True, in-kind seafood is available most of all to those who live in the immediate vicinity of the place where they are harvested. Residents of remote areas can only buy this delicacy in the form of frozen convenience foods. But there is nothing to worry about. Prepared in compliance with the rules of the technological process, sea cocktails are in no way inferior in quality to the “living” product. And you can make anything from such seafood - and soup, and a great appetizer, and a delicious second course.
Today we’ll talk about such dishes as sea cocktail soup. We will give some excellent recipes, as well as talk about how to cook it in a newfangled miracle pan - a slow cooker. So here we go. But first, a small educational program on the topic: "What is a soup from a sea cocktail."
Culinary secrets
There are many recipes for preparing the first dish of sea cocktail . Each mistress already has her own, tested, and sometimes on its basis she experiments, removes or adds various ingredients, and as a result creates a completely different dish. However, there are a few basic rules that you must definitely consider if you decide to make soup from a sea cocktail.
- The more basic ingredients in a dish, the tastier and more aromatic it turns out.
- Like any other first course, this soup is prepared on the basis of the broth. What it will be depends on the recipe.
- A sea cocktail, as a rule, includes the following seafood: oysters, fish, shrimp, mussels, squid. You need to know this if the hostess decided not to buy the finished cocktail in a bag, but to make it on her own.
- Sea cocktail soup can also be prepared on a milk or tomato basis. It all depends on the selected recipe. In addition, sometimes cheese, pasta and even sea kale can be added to it as additional ingredients.
Now go directly to our recipes. Ready?
Sea cocktail puree soup
We agree immediately that each of our recipe as the main ingredient - a sea cocktail - involves the use of a ready-made frozen semi-finished product. Here we buy it, and at the same time stocking up:
- a cube of chicken stock;
- cream 20% fat (200 g);
- dry white wine (need 250 ml);
- champignons (150 g);
- butter (50 g);
- celery.
How to cook
Defrost a sea cocktail, boil, as indicated on the package. In a saucepan, melt the butter, fry the champignons and our cocktail on it. It will take about five minutes. And then we pour in wine, chicken broth from a cube (250 ml), when it boils, add celery, salt. Cook over low heat for twenty minutes. Let the dish cool, get rid of celery, and send the rest of the contents of the pan to a blender. After that, add the cream. Done!
Some housewives are mistaken in calling this dish nothing more than “cream soup”. A sea cocktail made with cream would be more correct, if one really wants, to call creamy soup. But the first definition indicates more about culinary illiteracy than about the availability of recipes for the preparation of such soups. Or maybe the housewives are just trying to find some recipe that is not quite traditional for our cuisine, who knows. By the way, if the latter is the case, then we will be happy to help you replenish the piggy bank of recipes for making seafood soups . Let’s look at oriental cuisine for this. There certainly is something to learn.
"Tom Yam"
To cook this exotic dish, “arm” with the following products:
- allspice - 2 g;
- chili pepper - 1 pc.;
- garlic - 4 cloves;
- soy sauce - 50 ml;
- lime - 1 pc.;
- long-grain rice - 100 g;
- parsley - 1 bunch;
- tomato - 1 pc.;
- salt (to whom it is how much is necessary).
Cooking process
We chop the garlic very finely with a knife, send it to the pot with water (one liter will be enough), salt. After the contents boil, throw the rice there and cook it for no more than five minutes. Add the pre-thawed sea cocktail, pour the lime juice in three minutes and throw the chilli, cut into thin strips. Season with pepper, add diced tomato. Cook for another three minutes. Sprinkle with parsley before serving.
Well, of course, you can’t ignore the multicooker that has become so popular today. Therefore, in conclusion, a few words about how you can cook such a soup in it.
Sea cocktail in a multicooker
It must be said that absolutely all recipes for sea cocktail soup are suitable for a miracle pan. That is, more simply, specific, for a multicooker, practically does not exist. Everything that is offered in culinary forums and is interpreted as a recipe for cooking in a slow cooker is based on a traditional recipe. And therefore do not bother yourself especially! If you have already started a crock-pot in the kitchen, feel free to cook any kind of soup made from sea cocktails in it. Just follow one rule: if food needs to be fried, then use the “Baking” mode, and to cook it, boldly press the “Soup” key. As for the cooking time itself, it will be the same as indicated in the usual recipe.