Mussel salad "Sea Queen" Desperate Housewife
Unfortunately, mussels in our country have not received proper distribution, such as shrimp. And in vain, because their meat has not only a pleasant delicate taste, high nutritional value, but also highly effective medicinal properties. They are useful for improving metabolism, stimulating the process of hematopoiesis, lowering cholesterol levels in the blood, increasing overall tone and strengthening immunity.
Also, mussel meat is distinguished by a high content of minerals, various micro and macro elements - more than thirty. Mussels contain a large amount of proteins - they are superior in protein content to meat and fish. Moreover, mussels are an excellent antioxidant, since they contain vitamin E, as well as vitamins B and D, trace elements and biologically active substances.
And don't let the price of mussels scare you. They have absolutely no bones, in fact it is only protein in its purest form. And if you count, then they come out at a price no more expensive, and even cheaper than meat fillets. And there will definitely be more benefits :)
Ingredients:
- 1 pack of mussel meat (500 grams);
- 2 cans of seaweed;
- 5 eggs;
- 150 grams of cheese (I take Dutch or Gouda);
- 1 small jar of green peas;
- mayonnaise;
- Apple vinegar;
- 1 small onion.
How to make a salad of mussels and seaweed
- After cooking you will get 4 servings
- Cooking time: 40 minutes
If you do not add mayonnaise, eggs and season with olive oil, then the salad will be very beautiful and not so spicy.
When choosing seaweed, give preference to producers located in "sea" cities. This means that they take fresh raw materials, and do not make them from dried ones.
You can also add squid, shrimp, octopus to this salad. Get a sea adventure :)
Additional Information
- Time for preparing: 40 minutes
- Difficulty: for beginners
- Dish type: Festive, Vegetarian
- Festive: No
- Cuisine of the peoples of the world: Russian
Everyone knows perfectly well that by consuming seafood, we enrich our body with useful microelements and vitamins. But do not forget that not only are useful for our body sea fish, but also scallops, squids, mussels, octopuses, crabs and even seaweed (kelp). Thanks to such a wide range, you can cook various dishes, both first and second, and delicious salads, both hot and cold. All these seafood are very nutritious and rich in useful trace elements, I would especially like to highlight the unique mussels. From them we propose to prepare delicious salad seaweed.
Salad with mussels
Calorie content of mussels 80 kcal. Mussels contain iodine, magnesium, calcium. Seaweed in this salad will enrich it with additional minerals and give the salad originality.
Of course, you can use mayonnaise as a quick, banal dressing for such a salad, but it will only burden this dish, but a fragrant home-made dressing from vegetable oil and lemon juice or apple cider vinegar will come in handy. This sauce or dressing can give your salad a special taste.
Ingredients:
- Mussels - 300-350 grams,
- Seaweed - 1 can,
- Bulb small - 1 piece,
- Eggs - 3 pieces,
- Lemon - half
- White wine - 3-4 tablespoons,
- Garlic 1-2 cloves (optional)
- Greens - optional
- Olive oil 3-4 tablespoons
- Apple cider vinegar - 2 tablespoons.
Cooking process:
By eating mussels, you protect your body from the effects of stress and take care of the thyroid gland. And in the diet of men, mussels are simply irreplaceable, as they are responsible for male power and prolong the youth of a man.
When choosing frozen mussels, pay attention to the expiration date, do not take bags with a lot of ice, as they can be re-frozen. And when buying mussels by weight, you need to smell them, they should have a marine smell, but not sour or rancid. In addition, in mussels in shells, the valves must be tightly closed.
So, how to choose mussels figured out, let's move on to the salad recipe.
We put the eggs on the stove to boil.
We cut the onion into half rings, and marinate in apple cider vinegar, two tablespoons was enough for me. Marinate for about thirty minutes.
While the eggs are being cooked and the onions are marinating, we take the mussels (I have frozen ones), rinse running water let the water drain.
Take a frying pan and put it on the stove to heat up. Mussels without defrosting, spread on a hot pan and lightly fry without oil, while they give juice. When all the liquid has evaporated, you need to add wine and darken them again. If there is no wine, you can add a little water with lemon juice. How long to cook peeled mussels without wings? The total cooking time for mussels is five minutes.
Remove the cooked mussels from the stove and let them cool. As soon as the mussels have cooled, we remove the hairs and remnants of the valves in the mussels.
Peel the eggs and cut into cubes.
We open a jar of seaweed, and put it on a plate, making sure that sea sand does not come across. Here we spread the mussels, chopped egg. Drain the vinegar from the onion, add to the salad. Squeeze the garlic and mix everything.
We season the mussel salad with olive oil, lemon juice, taste, if necessary, salt. Salt is a great substitute for soy sauce. Soy sauce combined with lemon juice will give the salad an unforgettable taste.
The dressing can be prepared separately. Combine in a small bowl olive oil, lemon juice and garlic, mix well, add to.
Decorate the salad of mussels and seaweed with half a boiled egg and serve.
Try and enjoy the taste, bon appetit!
for the recipe and step by step photos cooking salad with mussels, we thank Svetlana Kislovskaya.
Salad with mussels and squid "Sea of taste"
Seafood has firmly entered our menu, more precisely, the menu of many people who try to eat right, but at the same time not to the detriment of the taste characteristics of ready-made dishes. So on these holidays, I decided to make a small contribution to our menu and prepared a salad, which I called “Sea of Taste”. Why such a name? Yes, because in a salad they perfectly coexist crab sticks, smoked mussels, squid and cheese, which fit perfectly into this marine brotherhood. But chicken eggs brought some connection to this salad, or to be more precise, helped to connect all the ingredients together. Anyway, write, it's time to cook and start tasting.
In order to prepare a seafood salad with crab sticks, you will need the following ingredients:
- Smoked mussels in oil - 1 jar,
- canned squid - 1 jar,
- Crab sticks 6 - 8 pieces,
- Cheese (hard) - 100 grams,
- Onion - 2 heads,
- Chicken eggs 2 - 3 pieces,
- Vegetable oil - 5 tbsp. spoons
- Salt and ground black pepper to taste.
Recipe for salad with mussels, squid and crab sticks "Sea of Taste"
First, let's boil the eggs. Be sure to add salt to the water when boiling eggs. Salt makes boiled eggs easy to peel. Boiled eggs need to be poured cold water and cool, then clean. For my salad, I took canned mussels and squid.
So, we take out the mussels from the oil (we do not pour out the oil, it will come in handy in the future) and transfer it to a deep bowl. We also send squids ready for use there. If necessary, cut the squid into small pieces or chop into strips. Crab sticks must first be thawed, then cut into thin long strips. We shift the mussels, squids and crab sticks into a common bowl.
Boiled eggs need to be chopped into cubes and sent to a delicious sea cocktail.
Then we will need to peel the onion and cut it into super thin strips, I almost got it. Then heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and heat it up. Next, send the onion to the pan and simmer it until transparent, do not fry. Pour the onion with oil to the already prepared ingredients.
Now you will need to grate the cheese on a coarse grater and also send it to a common bowl. It's time to add salt and black pepper, all to taste.
And we will refuel the salad with oil, which remained in the jar, from where we took out the smoked mussels. If you don't like the idea of dressing your salad with this smoky butter, then use mayonnaise. So, we just have to mix the salad and put it in a salad bowl. Either a slide on a dish, or using a special ring.
I garnished the salad a little with fresh herbs, which gave it freshness.
Enjoy your meal!
We thank Slavyana for the Sea of Taste salad recipe.
Sincerely, Anyuta!
You will need:
Seaweed salad - 200 g
Mussels in oil - 150 g
Parsley root - 1 pc.
Garlic - 3 cloves
Celery root - about 100 g
Medium-sized carrots - 4 pcs.
Dill greens - 4 sprigs
Parsley greens - 4 sprigs
cilantro - 4 sprigs
Salt - ½ teaspoon
Ground black pepper - a pinch
Hot red pepper - a pinch
Ground coriander - a pinch
Vinegar - 1 teaspoon
Vegetable oil - ¼ cup
Hard cheese - 50 g
For refueling:
Soy sauce - 1 tbsp. a spoon
Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. spoons
Cooking seaweed salad with mussels
1. Peel the carrots, wash them and, using a paring knife, cut them into wide, thin strips. Season with salt, lightly knead with your hands, stirring, and leave for half an hour. Then add ground coriander, black pepper and crushed garlic. Stir again.
2. In a small bowl, mix vegetable oil with vinegar and pour into chopped carrots, sprinkle red pepper on top and leave to infuse for 2 hours.
3. Peel and cut into strips the parsley root and celery. Grate hard cheese on a coarse grater.
4. Remove the mussels from a jar or other package, drain the oil and dry on a paper towel.
5. In a large salad bowl, put seaweed, chopped white roots, pickled strips of carrots, mussels, grated cheese. Wash, dry and finely chop three types of greens and add to a salad bowl. Mix all ingredients.
6. Prepare dressing by mixing soy sauce with vegetable oil. Pour dressing over salad and toss gently again.
Bon appetit and delicious salad!
On a note
Replacing hard cheese on the ingredient list with soy tofu makes for a delicious and incredibly healthy lean meal. Seaweed, seafood and soy product tofu more than compensate for the lack of an animal component in the diet.
