Seafood is becoming more and more popular not only in the Mediterranean countries. A mixture of marine life is very useful, not to mention its taste. The availability of this product posed a new challenge for the hostesses: how to make a frozen sea cocktail? Despite all the exoticism, the recipes are quite simple. The main thing is to know some subtleties to make the dish tender and tasty. The body absorbs seafood quite quickly, and it receives a large amount of protein and vitamins.

We select only quality products

Before preparing a frozen sea cocktail, it must be correctly selected. What is this product? These are fresh shrimps, mussels, octopuses, squids and crabs that were instantly frozen. This allows you to save the maximum amount of nutrients, and most importantly, the taste and aroma of sea delicacies. In addition, this processing method guarantees the quality of the cocktail. Seafood is a perishable product. Therefore, it is sometimes impossible to purchase them fresh. Dishes from a frozen sea cocktail are no less tasty.

Cooking principles

How to make a frozen sea cocktail? It all depends on the recipe. But there are general principles that allow you to cook not tasteless, but very fragrant dish. Seafood can be boiled or fried. Later they are used in salads or other culinary masterpieces. Before you cook a frozen sea cocktail, you do not need to defrost it first. We spread it immediately in boiling and slightly salted water.

Then we drain the broth, and we discard the seafood in a colander. We do not use broth in further preparation. Cooking time is no more than 5-7 minutes.

There are two ways to make a sea cocktail. In the first case, the product, not defrosting, spread in a frying pan with olive oil or cream. All liquid should evaporate. In the second case, the cocktail is thawed, thrown into a colander and spread in a frying pan. Primary processing depends on the further use of the seafood mix.

Easiest recipe

This is the easiest frozen cocktail recipe. The result is a delicious and delicate dish. Take 500 grams of frozen seafood, two carrots, one onion, a slice of butter (20 grams) and a glass of milk. For cooking, you need to take a stewpan or a deep frying pan. Finely chop the onions and carrots and fry in vegetable oil.

Then add a sea cocktail to the pan, which is previously defrosted. Fry all the ingredients and pour the milk. Also add a piece of butter. We extinguish a sea cocktail for about an hour, making the fire minimal. Salt and pepper are added to taste only at the end of cooking.

Salad "Sea surprise"

How else to use frozen sea cocktail? How to cook a delicious salad? You will need 100 grams of canned corn, 100 grams of olives, 100 grams of pickled mushrooms (champignons), lemon, mayonnaise, herbs and two boiled eggs. Pre-boil seafood.

How much to cook a frozen sea cocktail, you already know. Then we cut all the marine delicacies into small pieces. The remaining ingredients are also cut into small pieces. Mix everything and pour over lemon juice. Dress salad with mayonnaise. To make the taste more saturated, you can add half a small spoon of lemon zest. We serve salad to the table, decorating with greens.

Seafood and Cheese Salad

Salads from frozen sea cocktails are simple to prepare and at the same time original. Take 500 grams of seafood, 2 medium cucumbers, two boiled eggs, 100 grams of olives, 100 grams of feta cheese and leaf lettuce. We cut all the components into medium-sized cubes, and tear the leaves of the salad with our hands. Add salt and pepper to taste. Do not forget that the feta cheese is slightly brackish. Season salad with olive oil.

Seafood soup

Soups made from sea cocktails are extremely tasty and nutritious. We take a package of seafood (500 grams), one onion, two stalks of leek, a small celery root, half a glass of dry white wine, one carrot, a few peas of peppers, herbs and olive oil. All vegetables are peeled and cut into strips, but not large. Then fry them in olive oil and transfer to boiling salt water.

After 20 minutes, we take them out in a separate bowl, and pour the wine into the broth and put peppers in peas. When the liquid boils, put the seafood in the pan and reduce the heat. Stir for about 15 minutes, add greens and turn off the heat. A healthy soup rich in vitamins is ready.

Unusual sea cocktail salad

So, you have a frozen sea cocktail. How to cook an exotic dish and surprise guests? The recipe for an unusual salad in this case will be very appropriate. For cooking, you will need a glass of seafood, a head of red onion, 120 grams of garden strawberries, several lettuce, two large tablespoons of olive oil, a small spoon of mustard, a clove of garlic, salt, pepper and half a spoonful of vinegar.

Grind strawberries with a grater and mix it with mustard, olive oil, chopped garlic and onions. Fry a sea cocktail in a pan and spread on lettuce leaves. Pour it with cooked dressing, salt and pepper. We immediately serve the salad to the table.

Pilaf with sea cocktail

In what dishes do frozen sea cocktails be used! How to cook pilaf with this product? Yes, even this oriental dish can be prepared using seafood. It turns out to be a traditional pilaf with new taste notes. It will take 400 grams of long-grain rice, a pack (500 grams) of sea cocktail, one onion and carrot, one sweet pepper, a pinch of nutmeg, 100 grams of butter and 70 grams of vegetable oil, salt, pepper and ginger. Peel the seeds and cut them into medium cubes. Peel the carrots and three on a coarse grater. Chop the onion with a knife. Take a cauldron or a deep frying pan. We spread the onion there and fry it in vegetable oil. Then add pepper and carrots.

We make the fire small and simmer the vegetables for about 5 minutes. Next, lay out the sea cocktail and simmer for about 7 minutes. After that, we fill in the washed rice with a layer and pour three glasses of water. We do not mix pilaf and simmer for about 25 minutes. When the water boils, add salt and pepper to taste. After there is no liquid left in the cauldron, put spices and butter. Mix everything and simmer for about 5 minutes. Pilaf with seafood is ready, and it can be served at the table.

Braised sea cocktail

Seafood is a low-calorie product. But if you add cream, then the nutritional value of the dish is significantly increased. Take a kilogram of frozen marine life, 470 grams of 10 percent cream, salt, pepper and 30 grams of cognac. Pour thawed sea cocktail with cream, salt and pepper to taste. Add cognac and put the pan on the fire. Stew on low heat for about 20 minutes. Serve with any side dish or vegetables. This dish must be supplemented with greens. If desired, add any spices for a pungent taste.

Great shades of taste

Sea cocktail salads are unusual flavoring shades, magnificent appearance and original combination of products. The benefits of such dishes are very significant. And it will take 500 grams of sea cocktail, 250 grams of tomatoes, 200 grams of hard cheese, 150 grams of olives, two peeled garlic cloves, 50 grams of mayonnaise and two tablespoons of olive oil and soy sauce to prepare such a delicious masterpiece. We put a frying pan on the fire and pour a sea cocktail into it. It should be stewed in its own juice with the addition of oil. At this time, we wash the tomatoes and cut them into small cubes. Three cheese separately on a coarse grater.

Now let's prepare the dressing. Mix soy sauce and mayonnaise. Add chopped garlic to this mixture.
  Mix well. We remove seeds from olives and cut them in half. Put tomatoes and cheese in a salad bowl. Next, put the olives and seafood. Water the salad dressing and mix. This is how frozen seafood cocktails are used. How to cook such a dish is not difficult to understand.

It can't be easier

This is the easiest seafood cocktail salad recipe. Defrost seafood and lightly fry them. Put them in a bowl. We tear the iceberg salad into pieces with our hands and add to the sea cocktail. Peel yellow and red bell peppers and cut into strips. We mix all the ingredients and pour the juice of orange and vegetable oil. Add salt and pepper to taste. We put all products in arbitrary proportions. But the main ingredient in this dish is iceberg salad. We serve this culinary creation with slices of lemon and orange.

Spicy dish

This recipe is suitable for lovers of oriental cuisine. It turns out a spicy, spicy sea cocktail with a delicious aroma. For cooking, you will need 200 grams of salmon fillet, 500 grams of frozen seafood, salt, three tablespoons of olive oil, 100 milliliters of white wine (dry), a spoon of seasoning for fish, three peeled cloves of garlic, a spoon of chili seasoning and 150 milliliters of hot water. Seafood must first be thawed and thrown into a colander. In a stewpan, heat the olive oil and wine. Add seasoning and chili sauce. We mix everything well and put seafood in a stewpan. Add salt to taste. Now pour hot water and simmer the dish for about 25 minutes. After that, open the lid and let the liquid evaporate. At the end, add chopped garlic. Here is the answer to the question of how to make a frozen oriental sea cocktail.

In conclusion, we note that white wine goes well with seafood, giving the dish an unusual flavor.

The ingredients of a sea cocktail - squid, shrimp, mussels and octopus - are primarily a symbol of sophistication. But for Stroynyashka, it is also incredibly tasty and healthy food.

Today, women all the time have to balance between health and taste, which means sea cocktail is our find!

Sea cocktail in the gastronomic world is a unique phenomenon. Refinement, unique taste, good for the figure, reasonable price (and do not say that shrimp are expensive) allow us to arrange holidays of life at least every weekend.

One of the very first culinary books compiled in Ancient Greece by the Archestrate in the 4th century BC e. - three quarters was devoted to seafood. Seafood was appreciated even when such abstruse words as “calorie content”, “microelements”, “polyunsaturated fatty acids” did not yet take hold of the human mind.

Scientists, by the way, recently came to the conclusion that it is the generous seafood - the sea cocktail - that humanity owes its intelligence. According to studies, a great leap in the development of the intelligence of our ancestors, which happened about 20 thousand years ago, occurred due to the expansion of their diet due to seafood, which is extremely beneficial for the brain.

The benefits of sea cocktail

The benefits of seafood are endless.

It's tasty. A well-cooked lobster, stuffed squid or just boiled shrimp is delicious.

It is nutritious. The sea cocktail contains the amino acids necessary for the body, more than 38 trace elements, as well as the fat-soluble vitamins A, E, D. The nutritional value of the sea cocktail is superior to the meat of terrestrial animals, and such food is much easier to digest. If it takes 6 to 8 hours to digest beef or pork, then 2-3 hours for seafood.

They have few calories.

Sea cocktail - organic food. And in our century this is very important, because terrestrial animals suffer from forced hormones and chemicals.

Thanks to a rich and well-balanced set of trace elements, seafood stimulates the endocrine glands and restores metabolism.

The seafood contains the amino acid taurine, which regulates blood pressure and blood sugar.

Are you tired quickly, are you thinking tight? Perhaps you are missing iodine, which is in the seafood.

Vitamins A and E, which are part of the sea cocktail, are the main protectors against cancer and old age.

Seafood fat helps offset the damage caused by animal fats.

Regular consumption of sea cocktail prevents the development of atherosclerosis.

Seafood can also be used as a medicine. Can't fall asleep? Eat a shrimp or mussel salad and you are guaranteed a deep sleep.
What is a sea cocktail with?

1. The best addition to it is white wine. Non-gas mineral water and citrus juice are also welcome. Oysters are served with champagne or light beer.

2. The best side dish for a sea cocktail - rice. Possessing a neutral taste, it helps the sea cocktail to reveal its taste.

3. The best seasoning for a sea cocktail is lemon juice. As for spices, they must be used very carefully so as not to drown out the delicate taste of seafood.

Composition of sea cocktail

There are a lot of edible living creatures in the sea, but addiction is limited mainly to crustaceans (crabs, shrimps, lobsters, lobsters), bivalves (oysters, mussels, scallops), cephalopods (squid, octopuses) and echinoderms (trepangs, sea urchins). The composition of a sea cocktail, as a rule, includes squid, shrimp, mussels and octopuses.

Shrimp

Close relatives of cancers, only small ones. The colder the water in their native sea, the smaller their size and richer taste. For this reason, for salads and beer it is better to buy shrimp from the northern seas, and for grilling or roasting in batter - from the southern. Moreover, in large specimens, it is necessary to remove the intestinal vein, which runs along the back.

Mussels and scallops.

Bivalve mollusks. Tender meat, high nutritional value. You can bake, cook (including in cucumber pickle or white wine) and fry. Frozen briquettes from edible parts of mollusks are most often sold in stores. It is enough to boil in salted water - and the perfect base for salad, pilaf and other dishes in which meat is usually used is ready.

Squid and octopus.

Squid is a cephalopod mollusk. Like all seafood, it is very useful, for which it is also called sea ginseng. And at the same time, a meatman has something to chew. Before you put the squid in the case, it must be boiled. There is one trick: it should be in boiling water for no more than 4 minutes. If overexposed for at least a minute, the meat will be tough. And then, so that it becomes soft again, it must be cooked for an entire hour. Octopuses should be handled in the same way.

Advice  - we buy sea cocktail and seafood

It is best to buy a sea cocktail, frozen by the method of "shock freezing" - quick cooling to - 40 degrees. At the same time, water does not have time to turn into large ice crystals that destroy cells. As a result, the structure, taste of the product, nutrients are preserved.

When buying a package with a sea cocktail, knead it in your hands. If ice crystals creak under your fingers, then the product has already partially or completely thawed and should not be taken.

You can prepare from a sea cocktail not only a traditional salad, but literally anything. Their meat goes well with vegetables, cereals, cheese, and legumes.

What to eat to lose weight? What to cook for dinner? What to serve on the holiday table? For any situation, a frozen sea cocktail is suitable - a tasty and healthy mix of seafood that is prepared easily and very quickly. Most often, a sea cocktail is served in the form of a salad, but this semi-finished product can be prepared in many other ways.

The composition of the sea cocktail and its features

Sea cocktail is an assortment of boiled and frozen seafood. The composition may vary, but as a rule, the mixture consists of shrimp, squid rings , tentacles of octopuses and mussels. Rarely scallops or cuttlefish are added to these seafood.

The average calorie content of a frozen sea cocktail is eighty-one hundred kilocalories per hundred grams. Protein content is about 15%, fat is about 2%, carbohydrate content in seafood is not more than one percent. Of course, depending on the composition, calorie content and nutritional value can change: if you add more squid and octopus to the mixture, then the sea cocktail will be more caloric, and if crustaceans and mollusks prevail, then calorie content will decrease. It should be borne in mind that no matter how useful the sea cocktail is, the energy value of the finished dish also depends on what products it combines with. Obviously, pasta with a sea cocktail will be more high-calorie than a sea cocktail with vegetables.

The product is rich not only in protein, but also in vitamins, as well as iodine, phosphorus, calcium. Seafood is considered a healthy food: low fat and low calorie content are combined with a high protein content and a lot of vitamins and minerals. Frequent inclusion of seafood in the diet will help you lose weight. Of course, we are talking only about seafood in its pure form, without fatty sauces: a sea cocktail in a creamy sauce will not contribute to weight loss. It is not recommended for those who follow their figure, and a sea cocktail in oil - it is better to give preference to a frozen mixture, which does not contain excess fat. A sea cocktail in brine would not be the best choice for those who suffer from kidney disease or hypertension.

It should be borne in mind that in some people, a sea cocktail can cause allergic reactions. For this reason, shrimp, mussels and octopuses are not recommended for young children. However, in the absence of allergies in the diet of older children, you can safely introduce a sea cocktail in sour cream or in kind.

Subject approach

Each manufacturer in his own way combines seafood in the preparation of a sea cocktail - this affects both the energy value and the taste and usefulness of the product. It is worth considering the most common ingredients of this mixture separately.

Shrimps - small crustaceans with a delicate, slightly sweet taste. In addition to calcium, iodine, sodium, potassium and magnesium, shrimp contain rare compounds of molybdenum, cobalt and manganese. There are a lot of B vitamins in shrimp, as well as vitamins PP, A, D, E. At the same time, these small crustaceans are real champions in cholesterol content;

Tender squid meat is rich in vitamins of group B, PP and E, as well as trace elements: iodine, copper, phosphorus, selenium, iron. Squids also contain polyunsaturated fatty acids and components that can lower blood cholesterol. But, like shrimp, squid can be dangerous if caught in contaminated water;

Mussels are low in calories. They contain a lot of iodine, iron, phosphorus and cobalt. But it must be borne in mind that mussels accumulate toxic substances contained in sea water. Therefore, it is recommended to eat artificially bred mollusks;

Octopus meat contains omega-3 fatty acids in abundance, which today are considered almost a panacea and the best way to prevent cardiovascular disease. High protein and low calorie content make octopus a very desirable food for those who want to lose weight. There can be many dangerous compounds of heavy metals in octopuses - consequences of pollution of the world's oceans.

How to cook, how to pickle, how to fry a sea cocktail

The taste of a seafood dish largely depends on how to make a sea cocktail - frozen or thawed. Of great importance is the duration of the preparation. In fact, sea cocktails go on sale already brewed, which means that it should not be prepared for a long time. For example, a sea cocktail in a slow cooker is prepared in just a few minutes, and a sea cocktail in a pan is fried for a little longer. Extinguishing time cooks recommend different: julienne   from a sea cocktail will be ready five minutes after the start of baking, a sea cocktail in tomato sauce or a sea cocktail with cream are also prepared within ten minutes.

You don’t have to make a sea cocktail at all, but serve it to the table simply thawed with sauce or aromatic marinade. No special knowledge on how to pickle a sea cocktail is required. To prepare a marinade for a sea cocktail, you just need to mix to taste in arbitrary proportions lemon juice, a drop of oil and pepper, garlic   or ginger.

Seafood goes well with rice. Pilaf from a sea cocktail is a great substitute for regular pilaf with fatty meat. Fans of Italian cuisine will prefer a risotto with a sea cocktail. Even just boiled sea cocktail with rice will turn into a hearty, tasty dish with a low fat content.

Another proven combination is a sea cocktail with pasta. Spaghetti with a sea cocktail has long been a real symbol of Italian cuisine along with pizza.

Maria Bykova

Knowing how to make a frozen sea cocktail deliciously, every culinary specialist can serve a delicious healthy dinner or an original appetizer to the table in a matter of minutes. This set of seafood will be the basis of salad, soup, as well as a filling for pizza. Even low-calorie pilaf is prepared from it. In general, choose for yourself!

Ingredients: 430 g of sea cocktail, 2 to 4 cloves of garlic, 370 g of a mixture of vegetables, 60 ml of soy sauce, salt, a bunch of herbs, 2 tbsp. l vegetable oil, ground pepper.

1. In heated oil, first pieces of garlic are fried until golden. Then they are removed from the pan.
2. Seafood is laid out in hot oil.
3. After 3 to 4 minutes of frying, the prepared frozen vegetable mixture is added. It should have onions, carrots, sweet bell peppers, green beans.
4. Food is fried with frequent stirring for 10 to 12 minutes.
5. On top of the cooled contents of the pan, crushed greens pour out.

Salad with sea cocktail salted, peppered, seasoned with soy sauce.

Italian Risotto with Seafood

Ingredients: 90 g of onion, 1.5 tbsp. long-grain rice, 40 ml of olive oil, a glass of white dry wine, a pound of sea cocktail, a pinch of saffron, 1 liter of fish broth, a pinch of salt.

1. Onions are finely chopped and fried in hot oil. Washed rice is added to it. Cooking continues for another 3 to 4 minutes.
2. White wine is poured into the pan. The mass is quenched until the liquid evaporates completely.
3. Next, saffron is added and fish soup is added one ladle each. The next portion of the liquid is added after evaporation of the previous one.
4. After about 15 to 17 minutes, the rice is salted and mixed with a thawed sea cocktail.

Cooking continues for another 7 to 8 minutes.

Sea cocktail for beer

Ingredients: 2 tbsp. l soy sauce, a pound of seafood cocktail in brine, lemon juice, olive oil. How to make a delicious sea cocktail for beer, we will consider further.

1. Seafood is completely thawed, and then recline in a colander and washed well.
2. When the water drains completely, citrus juice and soy sauce are added to the sea cocktail.
3. After thorough mixing, the ingredients are removed in cool for 15 - 17 minutes.
4. Seafood is again laid out in a colander so that they have an extra marinade stack.
5. Then, with constant stirring, the cocktail is fried in well-heated oil. It will be enough 3-4 minutes.

The dish is immediately laid out on a large plate and served on the foam.

Tasty pizza with frozen sea cocktail

Ingredients: a pound of frozen sheet dough, 60 g of mayonnaise and ketchup, 220 g of already grated cheese, large tomato, 330 g of boiled-frozen sea cocktail.

1. Seafood is laid out in a bowl, poured with boiling water and left in this form for 6 - 7 minutes. Further, water merges from them.
2. The dough is thawed, rolled thinly on a baking sheet and lightly sprinkled with flour. The base is lubricated with a mixture of ketchup and mayonnaise.
3. First, thawed sea bastards are poured over the dough, and then circles of fresh tomatoes and cheese chips are laid out.

A pizza is prepared with a seafood sea cocktail until the dough is light brown and the cheese is completely melted.

Mediterranean style pasta

Ingredients: a pound of seafood, 230 g of pasta, a glass of grated cheese, the same amount of cream, a slice of butter, salt, spices.

1. Pasta is boiled in salt water until half cooked. Water drains from it.
2. Seafood is cooked for 10 - 12 minutes in salted boiling water and recline in a colander.
3. Sea cocktail is fried in butter, after which grated cheese is added to it and salted cream is poured. The mass is flavored with spices.
4. The pasta is laid out on plates in portions. When the sauce begins to thicken, you can remove it from the heat. The contents of the pan are laid out on the side dish in small portions.

The dish is served for dinner hot. This cream recipe can be slightly modified by adding your favorite spices.

Unusual pilaf with frozen sea cocktail

Ingredients: sweet bell pepper, 1 pc. onions and carrots, 2 - 4 garlic cloves, a pound of sea cocktail, salt, pepper, a glass of dry rice.

1. All vegetables and garlic are finely chopped. Then they are fried until soft, salted and pepper.
2. Seafood is immersed in salted boiling water for 4 - 5 minutes, after which they are laid out in a colander.
3. Sea cocktail spills out into a pan with vegetables. Well-washed rice and 2.5 tbsp are added. hot water.

A sea cocktail with rice is simmered over a fire under a lid until the dishes are ready.

Seafood Soup Recipe

Ingredients: 4 potatoes, 1 pc. onions and carrots, 230 g of cauliflower, 400 g of frozen seafood cocktail, 2 l of purified water, salt, pepper, spices.

1. All peeled vegetables are poured whole with water and sent to cook. When the liquid boils, it needs to be salt and pepper. Boil the ingredients for about half an hour.
2. Next, the broth is filtered, and all the thick is deposited on a separate dish. The onion is thrown.
3. In the broth for 14 - 16 minutes, a sea cocktail is brewed.
4. The remaining boiled finely chopped vegetables are returned to the soup.

The dish is salted to taste and served for dinner.

Seafood stewed with soy sauce

Ingredients: 370 g of seafood, 2 sweet bell peppers, 230 g of string beans, 270 g of broccoli, 130 g of olives, 60 ml of soy sauce, 1 tsp. liquid honey, salt, a mixture of peppers.

1. Pepper is baked in the spirit. cabinet until soft and cut into large strips.
2. Beans are immersed in boiling water for 2 minutes, after which they are reclined in a colander and immediately doused with ice water.
3. Umbrellas of broccoli are boiled in boiling water for 3 to 4 minutes.
4. Seafood is boiled in a separate pan.
5. For refueling, honey and classic soy sauce are combined.
6. All prepared ingredients are combined, pouring dressing from the last step to them. Salt and pepper are added to taste. Shredded pitted olives are poured into the pan. You can add a little water.

On low heat, seafood with vegetables is stewed under a lid for 15 - 17 minutes. This delicious yummy is best served warm.

But be careful, there is a lot of protein in such a dish, it will be difficult for the stomach to cope with a large amount of it.

Cooking option with mushrooms

Ingredients: 230 g champignons, a pound of sea cocktail, onion, 5 tbsp. l sour cream, 2 tbsp. l classic soy sauce, salt, spices.

1. Finely chopped mushrooms with onion cubes are fried until cooked. Next, thawed sea cocktail is added to the products.
2. Stew together foods for 7 to 8 minutes. Salted, sprinkled with spices.
3. After adding sour cream, the stewing continues for another 5-6 minutes. The finished treat is sprinkled with soy sauce.

It is delicious to serve it with boiled rice. You can use this composition as a sauce for pasta. Such a sea cocktail with pasta and mushrooms will be delicious!

Pan fried with garlic

Ingredients: a pound of assorted seafood, 3 tbsp. l olive oil, 2 cloves of garlic, lemon, a pinch of salt and pepper, 2 tbsp. l hot tomato sauce.

1. Frozen seafood is fried in a pan in olive oil for 2 to 3 minutes.
2. When they are completely thawed, garlic, salt and pepper are added to the dishes.
3. After 7 - 8 minutes of frying, hot sauce is laid out in the pan. The process continues until the seafood is ready.

Often, such a cocktail consists of a mixture of mussels, shrimp, octopus and squid. All these are seafood, hence the name. This is a wonderful ingredient for many dishes, mixing different products and vegetables, you can come up with countless recipes. But do not underestimate the seafood cocktail, it is also useful and tasty as an independent dish, even without additives.

What is the use of sea cocktail?

The benefits of seafood have been proven for a long time, they contain vitamins A, E, D, more than 38 trace elements.

What does a seafood cocktail consist of?

As a rule, seafood cocktails include shrimp, mussels, octopus and squid.

Shrimp

Crustaceans. Their size depends on the temperature of the water in which they live, the colder, the smaller they are, but their meat is much tastier. Small shrimps from the northern seas are more suitable for salads and beer, and southern shrimps are suitable for grilling and frying in batter. Do not forget to clean large shrimp from the shell, as well as from the intestinal vein, which runs along the back.

Octopus and squid

These are mollusks. Squid is very useful, it is called marine ginseng. Before cooking, it must be boiled, in order to make the meat tasty, you need to keep it in boiling water for no more than 4 minutes. You need to cook octopuses the same way. Octopus meat contains many useful substances - potassium, selenium, taurine, zinc, iron and B vitamins. It improves immunity, improves vision, and regulates cholesterol. Octopuses must be carefully and carefully cleaned, mucus and ink can lead to poisoning of the body.

Mussels

Clam. In nutrition, they are exactly the same as oysters, only cheaper and less nutritious. AT 100 gr. mussels contain 52% of the daily norm of selenium, without it iodine is not absorbed in the body, 13% of the daily norm of vitamin C, and 22% of iron.

What can be prepared from a sea cocktail?

Avocado and Seafood Cocktail Salad

• avocado,
• garlic,
• soy sauce,
• green onions
• lemon juice (lime possible).

Preparation: fry a sea cocktail. Peel the avocado and cut into small slices. Cut the smaller green onions. Squeeze the garlic through a press, add to the juice of lemon and soy sauce. Mix seafood with avocado and pour the sauce.

Sea cocktail salad with tomatoes and eggs

• 1 purple onion,
• 2 tomatoes
• 3 eggs (hard boiled), crackers (preferably wheat),
• for refueling - olive oil,
• 100 ml yogurt
• pepper,
• salt,
• a little bit of mustard.

Preparation: fry a sea cocktail in oil, salt, add pepper. Cut onions, eggs, tomatoes. Mix yogurt with mustard, oil, salt and pepper. Mix everything, season with yogurt sauce, sprinkle with crackers on top.

Bon Appetit!