Sea cocktail: a dish that evokes delight

In the shops you can find on sale assorted seafood, the so-called sea cocktail. Today, sea cocktail dishes are becoming increasingly popular, but not everyone knows how to use it.

Many housewives are interested in the questions: what is a part of the sea cocktail and can it be consumed at once, or is heat treatment necessary? And if you need heat treatment, how much to cook a sea cocktail? The sea cocktail can include various seafood: squid, shrimp, octopus, mussels, seashells and so on. If this product is frozen, then minimal heat treatment is required - it is enough to 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 needed.

From a sea cocktail prepare very tasty salads. One small pack of ready-made sea cocktail is enough to make two servings of salad.
You will need a couple of olives, a small bunch of green onions, mayonnaise, sweet Bulgarian pepper - 1 piece, 2 potatoes and one hard-boiled chicken egg.

Green onions are washed and finely chopped, the pepper is cleaned of seeds and cut into strips. Egg and potatoes are boiled, cooled and cut into cubes. We take the sea cocktail from the packet, boil it in salted boiling water and turn it over the sieve. When the cocktail cools down, mix it with the rest of the ingredients, add olives, season with mayonnaise and decorate with lemon wedges.

Sea cocktail is a useful and very easily digestible dish, which is often used as an appetizer, but if it is put out, it can be a hot dish.

To prepare four servings, you need to take the following ingredients: 0.5 kilograms of ready-made sea cocktail, two carrots and as many onions, 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise, 50 grams of butter, 0.5 liters of milk, juice of one orange, salt and black ground pepper taste. Carrots are peeled and grated, the onions are finely chopped and spread all into a sufficiently deep pan. All this is filled with milk, orange juice, butter and mayonnaise is 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 the liquid almost all boils away.

With a sea cocktail you can make a very delicious pasta with cream. For this sea cocktail preparation it does not take much time, boil in boiling water and discarded in a colander. Water is not poured - on it you can boil makorony or spaghetti (400 grams). In the frying pan pour olive oil and fry until finely chopped onions. Garlic must be finely chopped and added to onions.

Now add a sea cocktail to the pan and fry for a few minutes. The dish needs to be salted and peppered to taste, and then pour in twenty-percent cream (200 grams). The resulting sauce is cooked for another five minutes until ready. Sauce poured boiled pasta or spaghetti and sprinkled with grated cheese on top. For this, any solid cheese, for example Parmesan, is suitable.

Very delicious turns Julien from a sea cocktail Sea cocktail, without even thawing, pour cold water, put on the fire and bring to a boil. Do not forget to salt, add a 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 with butter.

Now you need to cook the sauce. To do this, on a dry frying pan brown the tablespoon of flour, add a piece of butter and mix everything until the butter completely melts. Now add the cream here, bring it to a boil, add salt and pepper, add nutmeg for a special taste (you can without it, only in this case you lose all the charm), pour this sauce form with a sea cocktail, sprinkle with grated cheese on top - and In a preheated to 200 degrees oven to the formation of an appetizing crust.

Everything, you can invite to the table a husband, children and mother-in-law and prepare to listen to compliments.