For a long time, everyone knows that the use of seafood is very beneficial for the human body. That they contain a bunch of nutrients, vitamins, minerals, etc. In addition, they are found not only in sea fish, but also in seafood such as squid, mussels, octopus, scallops and crabs.

But I know from myself that not every housewife prepares seafood dishes for her family. And in vain, it turns out, they make very tasty and, moreover, healthy salads.

The main ingredient in these salads is a seafood cocktail, which is most often sold in stores in ice cream. Therefore, when buying, you must always pay for the date of manufacture, and of course the appearance. In order not to buy a frozen product or frozen several times, which is fraught with unpleasant consequences.

Since the frozen seafood cocktail is on sale all year round, it will not be difficult to prepare a seafood salad. And the number of ingredients, as a rule, in such salads does not exceed 3-4 pieces.

You can fill them with any dressings to your taste - mayonnaise, lemon juice, any vegetable oil, or you can prepare specially sauces that will definitely set off the taste of the sea cocktail products.

Seafood salad recipes included in the seafood cocktail

All salads contain seafood cocktail and are dressed with mayonnaise. For those who follow the figure or do not particularly prefer mayonnaise, I recommend trying.

Ingredients:

• 80 grams of mayonnaise
• 3 chicken eggs
• gram 300 mussels (boiled-frozen)
• 15 grams of green onions
• two fresh cucumbers
• 15 grams of dill
• mayonnaise

Preparation:

1. We prepare the necessary products:
- in boiling, slightly salty water, boil the mussels for 2-3 minutes, then put them in a separate bowl and cool;
- we also boil chicken eggs and let them cool;
- wash cucumbers and herbs well;
- it is better to take mayonnaise on quail eggs.

2. Cut the cucumbers into small cubes, then transfer them to a large salad bowl.

3. Mussels and onions (green), cut into small rings, add to the cucumbers.

4. We also cut the eggs into small cubes, then chop the dill and put them in a salad bowl. Mix everything, add to taste and season with mayonnaise.

Now you know how to make a seafood salad with mussels.

Ingredients:

• 400 grams of boiled squid
• a few stalks of fresh parsley
• 2 p. Art. corn (canned)
• one can of krill meat
• some red caviar for decoration
• 100 g of Peking cabbage
• salad mayonnaise

Preparation:

1. Cut the squid into strips.

2. Chop the cabbage.

3. Drain the krill meat, then mash with a fork.

4. Drain the liquid from the corn can too.

5. Combine all ingredients, then season with mayonnaise.

6. You can put it in a salad bowl, but you can also put it in portions.

7. Garnish with roe in the shape of a bunch of grapes. Make a sprig out of the parsley.

Ingredients:

• 5 lettuce leaves
• 150 grams of cheese (hard)
• salad mayonnaise
• 12 pcs. olives
• three tomatoes (fresh)
• 500 grams of seafood (frozen seafood mix)
• soy sauce
• one clove of garlic

Preparation:

1. Defrost the cocktail (seafood) and fry it in a skillet with the addition of vegetable oil.

2. Finely grate the cheese.

3. Cut the tomatoes into thin slices.

4. Cut olives (pitted) into rings.

5. Squeeze out the garlic.

6. Add mayonnaise and some soy sauce. Mix.

7. Put a few sheets of salad on a nice flat plate. Tear one sheet finely.

8. Place tomato slices on lettuce leaves. Brush with mayonnaise dressing.

10. Sprinkle with grated cheese.

11. Top with the roasted cocktail (seafood). Brush with mayonnaise dressing.

Salad with seafood and tomatoes, recipe with photo

Ingredients:

• 200 grams of boiled squid
• 30 g mayonnaise (light)
• one tomato
• 2-3 feathers of green onions
• 100 grams of hard cheese
• two cloves of garlic
• 10 g toasted sesame seeds
• black pepper
• 18 ml lemon juice
• 150 grams of canned pineapple
• Dill
• 10 olives (pitted)

Preparation:

1. When you cook squid, try not to overcook it, otherwise it will become tough. Cut the cooled and boiled squid into thin strips. Cut the washed tomato into small cubes. Remove excess juice.

2. Drain the liquid from the opened can of pineapple. If you bought canned pineapple rings, then we also cut it into cubes. And it is better to buy pineapple pieces in jars right away.

3. Rub hard cheese on a coarse grater. Chop dill and green onions.

4. In a separate bowl, combine mayonnaise, lemon juice, minced garlic and black pepper. We get a dressing for our salad.

5. Fill the salad with it, mix gently. Now it needs to be decorated with olives and sesame seeds.

As you can see, all salad recipes are so simple and do not require a lot of time that any housewife can cook them 2-3 times a week for the whole family. And if you conjure a little over the decoration, then such salads can be safely put on the festive table. And in you will find out how you can beautifully serve holiday salads.

If you want to pamper yourself or your guests with delicious gourmet seafood, a seafood salad is the best solution in this situation. It has an excellent delicate taste, good for health, shape, contains a lot of vitamins. Even ladies on strict diets will appreciate the easy recipe and the benefits of this dish.

The usual seafood cocktail includes pieces of octopus, mussels, squid rings, various small shrimps. This assortment will appeal to lovers of fresh seafood. This mixture is sold in stores almost always frozen; you just need to defrost the bag in advance and boil the contents on the stove. A cocktail salad can be prepared from various vegetables, cheese, eggs, adding them to the mixture in a chopped form - each housewife has her own recipe.

Two ways to make a seafood cocktail at home

To make a delicious cocktail salad from a variety of delicious seafood, you need to prepare them in two different ways in advance, choosing the most suitable:

• You can boil a seafood cocktail in boiling water by adding salt, pepper, bay leaf, and the mixture to a saucepan. The boiling time should not be more than 3 minutes, it is worth watching by the clock.
• You can fry the mixture in a preheated pan with vegetable oil, salt and pepper to taste. However, it is also impossible to keep a frying pan on the fire for a long time - a maximum of 3 minutes, otherwise the squid with octopuses will turn into something like rubber.

Delicious salad with seafood and fresh tomatoes

A seafood cocktail salad with fresh tomatoes turns out to be spicy and spicy. Chopped garlic with olives, sauce, and shrimp with hard cheese add spice to it. Green crispy salad combined with seafood provides a lot of vitamins, so there are a lot of benefits from this dish. The recipe is quite simple, the cooking time takes about 20 minutes.

Ingredients:

• a package of seafood cocktail weighing 500 grams;
• 3 medium tomatoes, but it is better to take a package of small dishes for beauty;
• 10 olives;
• 100 grams of hard cheese;
• a few lettuce leaves;
• a clove of garlic;
• a spoonful of soy sauce to taste;
• olive oil for dressing.

Preparation:

1. To prepare a sea salad quickly, the seafood mixture should be boiled and cooled in a plate beforehand.
2. Carefully cut the tomatoes into small slices.
3. Grate the cheese with fine shavings.
4. Chop the garlic, mix with soy sauce, a spoonful of olive or ordinary vegetable oil.
5. Wash the leaves of fresh lettuce, shake off the droplets, tear them into small pieces with our hands.
6. It is better to chop the olives finely; if they are pitted, remove them.
7. Pour the cooled seafood mixture, pieces of lettuce, cheese, olives, tomatoes into a large dish, pour hot sauce on top, mix with a wooden spatula or spoon.

Hints:

1. If juice on the board comes out of the tomato slices, be sure to drain it into the sink.
2. The sauce can be replaced with a mixture of mayonnaise and mustard, as the recipe suggests. The taste will be more intense, in this case you will need to salt the finished cocktail salad.

Salad with seafood cocktail and fresh cucumber

This cocktail salad will be appreciated by lovers of shrimps, spicy mussels, fresh cucumbers. Raisins with corn give the finished dish a sweetish taste, seeds with herbs add spices. At first glance, such an exotic composition of the salad may seem strange, however, after trying a couple of spoons, all guests will appreciate the recipe and will happily eat the treat.

Ingredients:

• 500 grams of a mixture of squid, shrimp, mussels;
• 2 cucumbers;
• small tomato;
• 5 lettuce leaves;
• 3 tablespoons of canned corn;
• a bunch of green onion feathers;
• a pinch of peeled seeds;
• a handful of raisins;
• egg;
• greens, mayonnaise, lemon juice, salt.

Preparation:

• The sea mixture must be boiled or presented, cooled.
• Cut the cucumbers, tomatoes and green onions into pieces with a sharp knife.
• The egg must be boiled, peeled, chopped with a fork.
• Squeeze the juice of half a lemon into mayonnaise, mix.
• All ingredients must be mixed in a large bowl, adding salt, herbs, mayonnaise, and put in a glass salad bowl.

Hints:

1. If you don't like mayonnaise, you can make a delicious dressing sauce at home. The recipe is simple: mix 2 tablespoons of olive oil with lemon juice squeezed into a cup, ground pepper.
2. If desired, raisins and seeds can be replaced with olives, fried sesame seeds.

Delicate salad with seafood and vegetables

A spicy cocktail salad of delicious seafood, vegetables and spices will please even men. Red onions, mussels, and garlic add spice to the vegetables, while the gentle dressing adds lightness to this dish. Cooking such a treat is not long, if the seafood is boiled in advance, the recipe is also simple.

Ingredients:

• package of seafood mix;
• red onion;
• a clove of garlic;
• 2 medium tomatoes;
• parsley, asparagus, celery;
• egg;
• olive oil;
• lemon juice, salt, spices.

Preparation:

1. The salad will cook in 10 minutes if you boil seafood and an egg in advance.
2. Cut the red onion into rings or half rings.
3. Cut the tomatoes into slices.
4. Rub the egg on a fine grater.
5. Chop the greens with a clove of garlic with a knife.
6. Mix lemon juice, oil and spices in a plate to make a spicy sauce.
7. Mix all the ingredients with a wooden spatula, season with the prepared sauce.

Hints:

1. Sea salad cocktail, if desired, can be laid out in a flat dish, glass salad bowl, tall wine glasses on legs.
2. It is better to let the dish stand in the plate for half an hour before serving, so that excess juice stands out.

Seafood cocktail salad with pepper

A delicate cocktail salad of seafood, bell pepper and tomatoes will delight the hostesses with an unusual spicy taste and aroma. Making it is quite simple, there are no exotic products in the composition. Shrimps, mussels and tender squids add spice to the dish, green salad with tomatoes add vitamins.

Ingredients:

• packaging of a sea cocktail weighing 500 grams;
• 3 small tomatoes;
• 1 yellow bell pepper;
• a few crispy lettuce leaves;
• 100 grams of cheese;
• a clove of garlic;
• any oil for refueling;
• spices, salt, herbs optional.

Preparation:

1. Seafood must be fried in a dry frying pan, put in a dish, and cooled.
2. Cut tomatoes into slices, pepper into thin strips.
3. Tear lettuce leaves into pieces with our hands.
4. Grate the cheese with fine shavings.
5. Chop the garlic, mix with pepper, salt, oil.
6. We mix all the products, trying not to knead the tomatoes, pour the sauce on top, putting the sea salad cocktail in a salad bowl or glass.

Hints:

1. To make the pepper pieces softer, you need to scald them with boiling water and hold them in water for about a minute, then pour into a colander.
2. You can squeeze lemon or grapefruit juice into the sauce for aroma, add particles of dill, parsley.

Any seafood cocktail salad made according to clear and simple recipes will decorate a festive or family table. You can put it in beautiful salad bowls, bowls, wine glasses, decorate on top with rings of olives, corn grains, grated cheese. If you have time and desire, it is recommended to make a layered cocktail salad, smearing each layer with mayonnaise.

I love sea cocktail salad very much, this salad is always present on any festive table, and today I want to tell you its cooking recipe with step by step photos. I buy a ready-made seafood cocktail, but sometimes, depending on my mood, I can buy frozen and marinate it myself in olive oil, wine vinegar, with the addition of spices and peppers, olives, olives. It doesn't matter whether the seafood cocktail will be homemade or store-bought, the main thing is that the cocktail itself is tasty and contains a large number of various seafood delicacies - mussels, shrimps, squids, octopuses, etc. I always add a tomato and a fresh cucumber to this delicious marinated seafood cocktail salad, also a little Chinese cabbage or lettuce leaves, chicken eggs and mayonnaise dressing - it turns out just incomparable! I also want to suggest you cook one like this.

- seafood cocktail - 200 gr.,
- fresh tomatoes - 1 pc.,
- fresh cucumbers - 1 pc.,
- Chinese cabbage - 60 gr.,
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.,
- mayonnaise - 1-2 tablespoons,
- salt, pepper - to taste.

How to cook from a photo step by step

Prepare Chinese cabbage - remove the top leaves and remove them. Chop a small piece of Chinese cabbage into strips. Unload the Chinese cabbage into a deep bowl.




Rinse and dry the juicy ripe tomato, then cut the tomato into small cubes, add to the cabbage.




Then add a fresh cucumber to the salad, after washing it and drying it, then cutting it into cubes or medium-sized strips.






Now add all the prepared seafood cocktail to the salad. If the seafood cocktail has been marinated in oil, drain the oil first.




Boil chicken eggs hard-boiled, cool under running cold water, peel from the shell. Cut chicken eggs into oblong strips, add to a salad bowl.




Add a portion of mayonnaise to the ingredients, you can use homemade mayonnaise. Season the salad with a pinch of ground black pepper, salt to taste.






Stir all the ingredients of the salad and be sure to take a sample for salt. That's all, a delicious salad with sea cocktail is ready, you can immediately serve it to the table. Be sure to try this one too.

Seafood is no longer a delicacy today. They can be purchased year-round and at a reasonable price in almost any supermarket. Especially if you use frozen platter. Such products will form the basis of delicious seafood cocktail salads.

Canned seafood salad in brine

Ingredients:

• cocktail in brine - half a kilo;
• fresh medium cucumber - 1 pc .;
• leeks - 100 g (only the white part);
• large egg - 1 pc.;
• kefir (fatty) - 3 dessert spoons;
• lettuce and parsley - 1 bunch;
• salt.

Preparation:

1. Cut the leek into small rings.
2. Drain the brine from the canned seafood cocktail. Mix part of it with onion. Leave in this form for 8 - 9 minutes.
3. Beat the contents of the raw egg lightly. Send a couple of spoons of the remaining brine to him. Pour into a dry skillet and stir with a spatula. Fry the slices until browned.
4. Chop the cucumber at random and mix with other foods. Add the cocktail itself without liquid, as well as the herbs torn by hands.

Season the treat with a mixture of salted kefir and the same brine (a couple of large spoons).

From frozen seafood cocktail

Ingredients:

• frozen seafood - 600 g;
• fresh cucumbers - 2 pcs.;
• cherry - 6 - 7 pcs.;
• pitted olives - 10 pcs.;
• garlic - several cloves;
• lettuce leaves - 6 pcs.;
• grated cheese - 2/3 tbsp.;
• soy sauce - 2 dessert spoons.

Preparation:

1. Send frozen seafood to a dry skillet first. While stirring the cocktail, wait until all the melted ice has evaporated.
2. Only then send a small amount of any fat to the pan. Fry the assorted on it until tender.
3. Chop fresh vegetables at random. A salad with miniature cherry and cucumber circles looks especially impressive. Also chop the olives. You can choose options with fish / cheese filling instead of seeds.
4. Mix the ingredients (including pre-shredded cheese). Add mashed garlic to them.