Good nutrition is hard to imagine without seafood. They have high nutritional value with low calorie content. Saturating an organism with protein and useful microelements, they do not threaten with extra kilos. Mistress makes seafood scallops less often than many other seafood, although they have a delicate flavor and are a valuable food item. The problem is that not everyone can cook this mollusk. Scallops in mustard sauce are among the most popular seafood snacks. For all its specificity, the taste of the dish is universal and is enjoyed by almost everyone.
Cooking Features
Preparing scallops for the culinary process is not difficult, because most often they go on sale already butchered, without shells. All that needs to be done with them is to defrost, wash, dry. The cooking process itself does not have a high level of complexity. However, knowledge of a few moments of a culinary specialist who cooks scallops in mustard sauce for the first time does not hurt.
- Do not expose scallops to sudden temperature changes. Because of this, the protein changes its structure, becomes hard and dry. You can defrost your shellfish in the refrigerator or at room temperature. Attempting to speed up the process by immersing a product in warm water or heating it in a microwave will not lead to anything good.
- Scallops are available for sale packaged in vacuum packs or packaged for sale in bulk. The first are more expensive, but most often are of high quality. Information can be found on the package, when the mollusks were packed, until what time they can be eaten. The expiration date of the unpacked scallops is difficult to determine, there is a risk to bring home the spoiled product.
- Scallops are prepared quickly, it is undesirable to digest them, so that they remain tender. Exceeding the cooking time indicated in the recipe is not worth it.
There is no single recipe for scallops in mustard sauce. Some options include cooking seafood, others - their pickling. The sauce is made from a different set of ingredients. This variation allows you to take the popular cooking options for the basis, adjusting the recipes to your liking.
Scallops in mustard sauce in the Far East
Composition:
- scallops - 0.5 kg;
- mayonnaise - 150 ml;
- onions - 150 g;
- soy sauce - 20 ml;
- table mustard - 10 ml;
- wasabi - 2-3 ml;
- rice or apple vinegar (6 percent) - 40 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Scallops, defrosting, rinse in running water. This should be done carefully, as getting into the package with sand or fragments of shells is not uncommon.
- Boil water, throw scallops in it, boil for 2 minutes.
- Flip out in a colander, let it drain.
- Onions cut into thin half-rings or whole ringlets, if the onion is not large.
- Fill with a mixture of water and vinegar (two tablespoons of vinegar in half a glass of water). Leave in this mixture for at least half an hour, then drain the vinegar solution.
- Cut the cooled scallops into thin plates. Mix with marinated onions.
- Mix mustard with a small amount of wasabi, dilute with soy sauce.
- Combine the mixture with mayonnaise, mix.
- Fill the scallops with mayonnaise sauce, mix and place in a cool place for at least 40 minutes.
Serve as a cold snack. It has a spicy taste, like lovers of Japanese cuisine.
A simple recipe for scallops in mustard sauce
Composition:
- scallops - 0.5 kg;
- onions - 0, 2 kg;
- mustard table - 80 ml;
- vegetable oil - 120 ml;
- lemon juice - 0, 2 l;
- sugar - 10 g;
- salt, black pepper powder - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Rinse thawed scallops in running water, dip into boiling water, cook for 3 minutes.
- Remove with a slotted spoon, cool, dry with napkins.
- Cut the scallops into strips.
- Using a blender, mix lemon juice, butter, sugar, salt, pepper, mustard.
- Cut onion into thin half rings.
- Mix the onions with the sauce.
- Fill the scallops straw with the sauce, mix. Let it stand in the fridge for 35-45 minutes.
A scallop snack made with this recipe is spicy. If you prefer a milder taste, reduce the amount of mustard by 2-3 times. Lemon juice in the recipe can be replaced with apple cider vinegar, diluted with half filtered water.
Marinated scallops in mustard sauce
Composition:
- scallops - 0.5 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- table mustard - 10 ml;
- lemon - 0, 5 pcs .;
- mayonnaise - 100 ml;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Scallops, rinsed and dried with a napkin, cut into large pieces.
- Peel and cut medium onions into cubes.
- Squeeze juice out of lemon, mix with pepper and salt.
- Pour scallops with onions, cover with lemon juice, mix. Marinate clams in a cool place for 2-3 hours.
- Remove the scallops from the marinade.
- Place mustard and mayonnaise in marinade, mix until a homogeneous composition is obtained.
- Fill seafood with mustard sauce. Put them in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
The recipe is interesting because it does not provide for heat treatment of products, so that they retain a maximum of useful substances.
Scallops in mustard sauce can be prepared according to various recipes. Whatever option you choose, the resulting snack will have a delicate and savory taste at the same time.
