Shrimps are a popular and quite common product, but not only because it is a great beer snack, but also because of its composition, undoubted benefits for the body and low calorie content.
Shrimps are used to make soups, salads, main dishes, appetizers, pies.
The most important thing is to be able to cook them properly.
Some, having tasted boiled shrimps for the first time, are delighted and firmly introduce this healthy seafood into the diet, while others insist that there is nothing tasty in shrimps - they are supposedly rubber and tasteless.
As you may have guessed, the whole thing is in their preparation. So how to cook shrimp so that the meat turned out soft, and the taste and aroma delicate?
How to cook shrimp, how much to cook shrimp - general principles of cooking
To cook delicious shrimp, you need to choose the right ones:
• First of all, be guided by the size of sea creatures, which ones you need to prepare this or that dish. There are two types of shrimp sold in stores: small Atlantic and large royal. Their main difference is the size. The package contains the caliber of crustaceans: small - 50/70, 70/90, 90/120; large - 30/40, and even 2/4. These numbers indicate the approximate amount of shrimp per kilogram of weight. A good product has a caliber of no more than 120. If there are no numbers on the package, this means that there is every little thing and re-grading in the package.
• Purchase the product in clear packages so that you can see the appearance of the shrimp. Crustaceans should be covered with a thin transparent layer of ice - seafood after catching is subjected to instant freezing. Thick snow or ice cover indicates that the product has been re-frozen, which means that it is already of poor quality. Such shrimp will not bring benefits to the body and will not give a pleasant delicate taste of seafood.
• Some other qualities that indicate that the product is of poor quality and should not be purchased. Snow in the package indicates that the product has been thawed and frozen again several times; faded or yellow shrimp - frozen, old; a straight tail suggests that the shrimp was dead long before freezing; black spots on the body and head talk about the diseases of individuals. So, how much to cook the shrimp, so that the meat turned out to be tender and tasty, and not hard and sticky? Shrimp is a protein, low-calorie, but at the same time nutritious product. It takes a few minutes to prepare it, and if you buy shrimps already peeled from the shell, then it will take no more than two minutes to cook them. Let us consider in more detail for the most popular varieties of shrimp sold.
How to cook frozen unripe shrimp? Before cooking, they are thawed, washed and put in boiling water for three minutes, then thrown back in a colander.
How to cook boiled frozen unripe shrimp? Such shrimp before freezing has already been subjected to heat treatment, and therefore for their preparation is enough one or two minutes in boiling water or brine.
How much to cook peeled shrimp? But it is not necessary to cook cleaned individuals, it is enough to fill them with boiling water or brine for three or four minutes. But, if you are afraid of possible infections, boil the crustaceans in boiling water, but not more than one minute.
How to cook king prawns? In fact, this is not a separate type of shrimp, they are ordinary, just very large. Unrefined frozen cooks for 10 minutes, cooked frozen for 5 minutes, peeled king prawns are cooked for about 3 minutes.
How much to cook tiger shrimp? They, as well as other species, should not be digested, tiger shrimps are cooked after boiling the liquid for 3-5 minutes depending on the size. You can determine the readiness by changing the color: from gray they turn into juicy orange.
How to Cook Shrimp: The Best Recipes
It is not enough to know how much to cook these or other shrimp. It is not enough just to throw seafood into boiling water. To give them a special taste and aroma, you need to cook a tasty pickle.
Recipe 1. A simple way to cook shrimp
If, before cooking, you decide to defrost and clean the shrimp from the shell, take a teaspoon of salt per liter of water. If you are ready to clean the finished seafood - take a tablespoon of salt without a slide. To make soups and broths, lay the shrimp in cold water and boil as much as stated in general principles after boiling. If you are cooking shrimp for salads or main dishes, lay seafood in boiling salted water. Recipe 2. Classic way: salad shrimp
Take three pounds of water a kilogram of seafood. In the boiling water, first cast the salt to taste, a few leaves of laurel, peas of black pepper. Put the shrimp and cook for 3 to 10 minutes depending on the size of the fish.
Recipe 3. How to cook shrimp in a spicy brine
Put two tablespoons of adjika, salt, peeled onion, cut into two to four parts, laurel, and ground red pepper in boiling three liters of water. Tomit the pickle on low heat for about three minutes, then lay the shrimp. Boil for 2 to 10 minutes. Sprinkle with herbs before serving.
Recipe 4. How to cook boiled and frozen unrefined shrimps in beer brine
To prepare seafood in spicy brine, you will need a kilo of shrimp size 70/90 or 90/120, half a liter of beer, two liters of water, one and a half tablespoons of salt, to taste of black peppers and allspice, and laurel leaves.
Mix beer and water in a saucepan, add all spices and salt, bring the mixture to a boil. Put the shrimp, cook for two minutes. Throw in a colander, serve hot.
Recipe 5. How to cook shrimp peeled with lemon
Boil three liters of water, pour the juice of half a lemon, put a few parsley leaves, two or three leaves of laurel, salt and pepper to taste. Boil the brine over low heat for a couple of minutes. Remove the pan from the heat, put the shrimps in a hot pickle, soak them in the liquid for 3 minutes, then fold them into a colander.
Recipe 6. How and how much to cook shrimp in a slow cooker
Take a pound of unpeeled shrimp, put them in a bowl for cooking food for a couple. Pour a liter of water into the multi-cooker bowl, add one and a half tablespoons of salt, bay leaves and spices to taste. Select the function “Steaming” by setting the time to 10 minutes.
Recipes of dishes with boiled shrimps
As you have already seen, cooking shrimp is a matter of a few minutes, and how much delicious you can cook from this delicacy is not to be considered.
Salad with shrimps, cherry tomatoes and parmesan
Ingredients:
• 300 grams of boiled peeled shrimp;
• 100 grams of lettuce leaves;
• 300 grams of cherry tomatoes;
• two cloves of garlic;
• a small pod of chili;
• 80 ml of olive oil;
• 50 grams of grated parmesan;
• two tablespoons of balsamic vinegar;
• to taste salt and pepper.
Cooking Method:
1. Pour olive oil into the pan, heat it. Put the peeled, chopped garlic and chili rings. Fry both ingredients for 1-2 minutes to a characteristic flavor.
2. Carefully remove the garlic and chilli, throw out both ingredients. Put the boiled shrimps in the same aromatic oil, pepper them. Fry on all sides, stirring for two minutes.
3. Rinse the lettuce leaves and shake off excess liquid on a flat dish.
4. On top of the salad, place the halves of cherry tomatoes and shrimp in random order.
5. Sprinkle the ingredients to taste with salt, sprinkle with balsamic vinegar, sprinkle with grated parmesan.
Pasta with shrimps and cream cheese
Ingredients:
• 250 grams of pasta (best to take spaghetti);
• one lemon;
• a pound of boiled peeled large shrimp (50/70);
• three cloves of garlic;
• ground red and black pepper;
• salt;
• half a cup of grated Mascarpone cheese;
• a quarter cup of dry white wine;
• 30-40 grams of butter;
• two tablespoons of chopped onion shnit.
Cooking Method:
1. Boil the spaghetti, following the instructions on the package, but under-deplete a little. This condition of the paste is called al dente, i.e. pasta is slightly undercooked. Flip the spaghetti in a colander.
2. Put the shrimps in a large bowl, mix them with two tablespoons of lemon juice and half a teaspoon of the lemon zest. Add a pinch of salt and a little ground pepper.
3. Heat the butter in a deep large frying pan or stewpot, toss the peeled garlic, fry for one minute, remove. 4. Put the shrimp in the fragrant oil, pour them with wine and the remaining lemon juice. As soon as the wine boils, boil seafood for a minute.
5. Transfer the spaghetti from the colander to the shrimp, mix thoroughly, salt and pepper the ingredients to taste.
6. Sprinkle all the products with cheese, soak the dish on the stove on the quietest fire for a couple of minutes.
7. Remove the pan from the stove, add the remaining lemon zest and shnit to the ready-made pasta with shrimps and mix.
8. Serve hot.
Milk-vegetable soup with shrimps
Ingredients:
• half a kilo of shrimp;
• half onion;
• two celery stalks;
• three cloves of garlic;
• two tablespoons of flour;
• 60 ml of olive oil;
• 50 grams of tomato paste;
• three glasses of milk;
• two glasses of vegetable broth;
• salt, pepper, laurel - to taste;
• green onion feathers and basil leaves.
Cooking Method:
1. Fry chopped onion, garlic and celery stalk in hot olive oil, cutting it into cubes.
2. Add tomato paste and flour to vegetables. Simmer, stirring, until thick, about two minutes.
3. Pour in the milk, after mixing it with the broth, salt to taste. Add pepper and bay leaves, basil leaves and chopped green onions.
4. Bring milk broth to a boil, put peeled shrimps in the soup.
5. Tomit for five minutes, then immediately pour into plates and serve on the table.
Paella with shrimps and bell peppers
Ingredients:
• 250 grams of large shrimp;
• 130 grams of smoked chorizo type sausages;
• a glass of frozen green peas;
• red sweet pepper;
• a glass of long grain rice;
• 30 ml of olive oil;
• onion;
• 3.5 cups fish broth;
• salt, pepper, parsley leaves;
• A pinch of saffron.
Cooking Method:
1. Heat the oil in a large frying pan, place the thin onion rings and strips of red sweet pepper in it. Cook vegetables for about two minutes.
2. Add thoroughly washed rice, mix well. 3. Lay out the sausages, fry all the ingredients on high heat, stirring all the time, for a couple of minutes.
4. Pour in fish broth, sprinkle with saffron, bring the liquid to a boil.
5. Cover the pan with a lid, stew on low heat, without touching or disturbing, for 10-12 minutes, until the rice is soft.
6. Add the green peas, salt and pepper, peeled, thawed shrimps. Stir, soak under the lid closed for five minutes.
7. Serve the paella with the shrimps, sprinkle with chopped parsley leaves.
How to cook shrimp tasty - tricks and useful tips
• Do not cook shrimp above the specified minutes, otherwise instead of appetizing tender meat you will get something hard and rubber.
• If you see that the head of a brownish shrimp - do not worry, the individual is not sick. The head is darker in pregnant shrimp. The meat of such an individual is much more nutritious and healthy.
• Peeled shrimps are usually more expensive than unpeeled, but if you count, then a kilogram of peeled shrimp is about three kilograms of shrimp in the shell. Therefore, it is more profitable to purchase already purified seafood.
