Boiled mussels recipe
Products
Frozen mussels - 300 grams
Water - 1 glass
Salt - 1 teaspoon
How to cook mussels
1. Pour 1 cup of water into a small saucepan.
2. Salt the water.
3. Put the mussels in the water without defrosting; cook for 7 minutes.
4. Drain the water, use boiled mussels in salads and main dishes.
How to cook mussels in gadgets
In a double boiler over steam - 10 minutes, so cooked mussels are the most useful.In a multicooker or in the open pressure cooker - 5 minutes after boiling water.
In the microwave it is better to cook mussels, slightly defrosting - literally 2-3 minutes at full power without adding water.
Fusofacts
- When cooking mussels, you must take into account that overcooked mussels will become rubbery and tasteless. Therefore, you should not cook mussels for too long.- Calorie content mussel meat - 70 kcal / 100 grams.
- The cost frozen mussels -500-600 rubles / 1 kilogram of boiled-frozen mussels (as of May 2016).
- Mussels are boiled in a small amount salted water - otherwise all the juice of the mussels will go into the broth, which is used very rarely in practice.
- Before cooking mussels do not defrostsince their size is too small for cooking frozen mussels to spoil the product - mussels will instantly be thawed in boiling water!
- When choosing mussels Reverse the weight of mussels without ice glaze (always indicated on the package and can reach up to 1/5 the weight of mussel meat) and the integrity of the ice glaze. Fresh, high quality mussels do not have a pungent smell, much less fish. There should be only a slight fresh seafood smell.
- How to clean mussels?
Boiled-frozen (most common) mussels do not need to be processed, because they are without shell. Sometimes mussels need to be cleaned of algae - filamentous tough plants. If the mussels are cheap, it is better to sort out the mussels and examine them for shell fragments.
Frozen and fresh mussels covered with a shell must be cleaned: using a brush, clean the mussels from inedible algae and other contaminants, and then rinse in several waters. Boiling will help the mussels to open, after opening the shells, remove the mussels and remove the rest of the algae.
- If mussels are supposed fry, then you can fry them without cooking - in oil for 5-7 minutes.
- When cooking, mussels can not open up - in this case, they are removed from the edible.
- What to cook from boiled mussels:
1. Cook soup.
2. Serve with spaghetti or other pasta.
3. Make pilaf with mussels.
4. Make a salad or appetizer "Seafood Cocktail".