If you believe that crayfish are tasty only as an independent snack for beer, then you are deeply mistaken. There is only one conclusion - you simply do not know how to cook real delicacies. For example, crayfish soup is a great, very tender and extremely healthy dish. Surely real gourmets know about the taste of such a soup.
An exotic dish came to us from France. And more than one century adorns the tables of our compatriots. It has a high energy value, richly digestible proteins and minerals. Despite the high nutritional value, it has very few calories, or rather, a low fat content. Therefore, we can say with confidence that the dish is dietary. Let's move on to the recipes.
Crayfish soup: recipe for yogurt
The composition is quite straightforward, one might even say very simple. We need: 15 pieces of fresh crayfish, a glass of yogurt, flour (50 g), one onion, two chicken eggs, garlic (four slices), black pepper, potatoes (two root vegetables), salt and parsley.
The cooking process should begin with a decoction of river invertebrates, in slightly salted water. Then cool them, remove claws, necks and carapace. Strain the broth, in it boil the potatoes, cut into small cubes.
Put the meat, separated from the shell, into the broth when the potatoes are almost ready. Strain the flour with butter, chopped onion and chopped garlic and transfer to a pan. Pour yogurt into the broth, drive eggs in, add spices and parsley. Bring the crayfish soup to a boil and turn it off. Let it brew for a few minutes and then serve with brown bread.
Creamy Crab Soup
It is difficult to refuse such a treat. And why, now you find out. Stock up on such products: 20 pcs. crustaceans, a glass of heavy cream, a spoonful of flour, two yolks, tomato paste (10 g), one onion, six liters of liquid. Spices: dill, celery root, pepper and salt.
Cooking
We boil water, salt it, throw whole stalks of dill and river animals. The cooking process takes an average of 15 minutes. Remove the carapace from the chilled crayfish, remove all of the legs and dry in a oven or microwave until crisp. Then turn the mass into powder.
In a stewpan, we pass chopped celery with onions in a mixture of vegetable and butter. As soon as the vegetables turn golden, you need to add tomato paste, shell powder and flour to them. The strained cancer broth is poured to the vegetable mass, weary for half an hour.
During this time, the liquid should decrease in volume by about three times. Beat the broth with a blender, add cream, mashed with yolks, boil the soup from the crayfish. Put meat and fresh greens cleaned from shells in the finished dish. Having tried once, you will fall in love with him forever.
Cold kvass crayfish soup
Just want to clarify that this dish is for everybody. Do not be alarmed by such an unusual composition, all the ingredients are perfectly combined with each other and give an amazing taste. You need to take: a liter of kvass, fresh cucumbers (3-4 pcs.), 10-15 crayfish, three boiled eggs, sour cream (two hundred grams), cucumber pickle (150 ml), horseradish, salt and green onions with feathers.
First, peel the cucumbers and cut into thin strips. Combine sour cream with bread kvass, cucumber pickle and pour vegetables. Put the mixture in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. During this time, boil river animals.
To make the meat tender, juicy and piquant, cook it with plenty of dill and salt. In this case, the last ingredient can not be spared, since the hard shell prevents the penetration of salt. Some put peppers in a pot during cooking.
We clear the meat from the shell and cut it. We take out the cucumbers in a brine, put in a cup of crumbled crayfish, chopped or grated eggs, chopped onions, grated horseradish, salt and pepper - send in the cold for 10 minutes. When you pour cold crayfish soup, add greens and sour cream to each serving.
Fish soup
Peerless soup is characterized by high nutritional value and satiety. Let's try to cook it from the following components: a pound of pike perch (you can take fish to your taste), ten small crustaceans, two lemons, fresh tomatoes (6 pcs.), Two heads of onions, carrots, garlic (three wedges), potatoes (three root vegetables) . Also take two eggs, rice (50 g), red pepper, salt, parsley and dill.
Pour about three liters of water into a deep bowl, put slices of carp, washed crayfish, chopped potatoes, one onion, whole garlic, one lemon and carrots in circles in a liquid - boil for 15 minutes. Take out the crayfish, remove the carapace from them - set aside the meat, and send the peel back to the broth. Boil another hour.
Take a large cauldron, put chopped onions and diced tomatoes in it. Add pepper and salt to vegetables - stew under the lid for at least 10 minutes without oil. Then boil the boiled mixture through a sieve.
Pour tomato-onion puree and eggs whipped with lemon juice into the fish stock . When adding the egg mixture, do not forget to constantly stir the liquid so that it does not coagulate from acid. Put the crayfish soup on the fire and heat to 40 degrees. Portion chopped greens and grate lemon zest.
Crawfish and Tomato Soup
For a kilogram of tomatoes, you need to take 10 crayfish, fresh cucumber, seedless black olives (7-8 pcs.), One onion, wine vinegar (large spoon), one hundred grams of vegetable or olive oil, basil, black pepper and salt.
Hold the tomatoes in boiling water, peel them and grind in a combine with basil, vinegar, oil and spices. Cool the mixture. Boil crayfish with dill - strain the broth. Remove the shell from the necks.
Spasser shredded onions. Cut the cucumber into strips, olives into circles. Transfer all the ingredients into the cancer broth (tomato puree, cucumbers, onions, olives, spices and meat) and heat. Garnish the soup with crayfish necks with a sprig of basil and a slice of lemon. Enjoy the taste and enjoy the prepared dishes!