Many Russians who live far from the sea, have seen only on TV, how to eat mussels kinogeroi.Why not try these shellfish themselves?Preparing them is very simple, the taste - excellent, the product can be used in soup and as a hot appetizer and main course.Below I give some unpretentious recipes.But first, a few words about how to do this a few exotic animals.
Connoisseurs claim that tastes best to cook fresh clams, and caught from June to October.Oyster farming in the Black Sea supply to stores already frozen mussels, brine and other seafood.Of course, you can buy them - not poison.If you decide to still treat yourself to natural Black Sea clams, and for this purpose went to Odessa Privoz, I advise you to look closely at the products offered.Good fresh mussel has the following characteristics:
- wing shells are tightly closed;
- hanging from the slot so-called "beard", which the mussels clinging to the rocks;
- shellfish have the smell of the sea.
Let's say you already bought thawed or fresh seafood store-bought a pack.What to do next, how to eat mussels?Our human logic is that if the edible part is located in a thick shell or peel, this tasty serdtsevinku is necessary to start to extract.The method works in the case of nuts, but absolutely incorrect when applied to mussels.If you pick a knife, a screwdriver, a fork to open the shell (a mollusk would resist fiercely), then - in case of victory - your eyes will appear something like a snot unappetizing.
like eating mussels right?Algorithm such action.Beard cut with a knife, rinse under running water (carefully with a brush).In a saucepan with a thick pouring a glass of dry white wine, chopped herbs, a little black pepper.Put a little less than a kilogram, or clams and bring to a boil.Cook their need for long - the main thing that all the shells have opened.Serve them often either on the wings or on lettuce leaves with sauce "Aioli" or "pesto".
I love seafood peanut sauce "bazhe."A bulb should be cut into strips and put out.Walnuts three mince.Stir in onions, nuts, clove or two of finely crumbled garlic, a pinch of hops-suneli, saffron and paprika, add some chopped coriander and cinnamon.Gradually pour in a lot of hot broth (can be the liquid in which the cooked shellfish) until the consistency of sour cream.Mussels, photos you see, look pretty appetizing.
If you have any seafood, in any case they do not warm up - it is fraught with indigestion.It is better to put it to use in a salad: Mix boiled eggs, mussels, fresh parsley, and season with mayonnaise sauce, "Thousand Islands".But how to eat mussels romance, which can often be seen at the pebble beach of the Crimea: they simply washed clams, scraped his "beard", are laid out on the lattice or metal sheet and bake over a fire.As the product is often fished personally, you need to carefully look closely to the eats.Ready mussel can have color from white to bright orange.But if clam gray and wrinkled, it is better to throw it away - he's too old.Also in the large shells can get the pearls, which have no market value, but it can damage the teeth.
