Seafood is known for its nutritional value and a unique combination of useful trace elements, vitamins, amino acids and high-quality protein. Crabs, octopuses, squids - the variety of gourmets is breathtaking. Do not forget about dishes from mussels - frozen peeled, in shells or even fresh.
They are distinguished by tender meat with a sweet aftertaste and a delicate aroma. There are many ways to
cook frozen peeled
mussels . It can be soup, and salad, and the second, and even marinade. The main thing is to eat dishes rather, so as not to poison the spoiled food. However, asking for this is hardly worth it - the mussels disappear from the table instantly.
Preparing for Eating
Before frying the mussels peeled frozen or fresh, it is worth preparing them. Otherwise, sand may creak on the teeth. Try to rinse the seafood as thoroughly as possible. If you bought unpeeled mussels, carefully inspect all the sinks - those that are damaged cannot be eaten, so you will have to throw them away. To clean the mollusks, you need to lower them for a couple of minutes in boiling water or send them to a hot pan. When they open, it remains only to remove the growths with which the mussels cling to the stones, and once again thoroughly rinse everything.
How to cook frozen peeled musselsTry making pickled mussels. The finished dish will be a great appetizer, as well as a component for gourmet salads. For cooking, you need a pound of seafood, a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil, lemon juice, one hundred and fifty milliliters of dry white wine, a clove of garlic, a teaspoon of mustard and honey, salt, bay leaf, pepper, fresh herbs. Before preparing frozen peeled mussels, you need to make a sauce for them. Boil the wine, put the whole garlic, bay leaf in it, season and boil the mussels in a mixture. Throw it in a colander. Make a marinade of fresh herbs, lemon juice, oil, pepper, mustard and salt.
Transfer warm mussels to it along with the bay leaves and garlic left over from cooking and leave for five hours in the refrigerator in a glass jar or bowl. This method is also suitable for cooking shrimp. Roasting is another tasty way to cook mussels. Frozen peeled or whole, clams are baked with cheese or sauce. For cheese baking, you will need mussels in shells in the amount of half a kilogram, a couple of tomatoes, a few cloves of garlic, fifty grams of butter, spices and one hundred and fifty grams of hard cheese. Rinse and boil seafood with salt, spices and bay leaves. Those that remain closed should be thrown away. Halve and gently separate the meat, leaving it in the sinks. Grind the garlic and tomatoes in a blender. Put a little oil in each sink, a teaspoon of sauce and rub on top with cheese. Bake for twenty minutes at a temperature of one hundred eighty degrees. If you are more interested in how to cook peeled frozen mussels, use another sauce - from soft cream cheese, two hundred milliliters of cream, twenty-five grams of butter, yolk, a tablespoon of flour and a clove of garlic. Peeled meat you just need to pour sauce with all the ingredients, sprinkle with hard cheese and bake for twenty minutes at two hundred degrees.