Sea cocktail soup: cooking recipes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Few people are ready, without prejudice, to say that they cannot stand seafood. Almost everyone loves them. True, in its natural form, seafood is most accessible to those who live in close proximity to the place where they are mined. Residents of remote areas can buy this delicacy only in the form of frozen semi-finished products. But there is nothing wrong with that. Prepared in compliance with the rules of the technological process, sea cocktails are in no way inferior in their qualities to a "live" product. And you can make anything out of such seafood - soup, and a great appetizer, and a very tasty second course.

Today we will talk about such a dish as sea cocktail soup. We will give some great recipes, and also tell you how to cook it in a newfangled miracle pot - a slow cooker. So let's start. But first, a small educational program on the topic: “What is sea cocktail soup.”

Cooking Secrets

There are many recipes for preparing the first course of a sea cocktail. Each hostess already has her own, tested, and sometimes, on its basis, she experiments, removes or addsdifferent ingredients, and in the end creates a completely different dish. However, there are a few basic rules that must be taken into account if you decide to make soup from a sea cocktail.

• The more main ingredients in a dish, the tastier and more aromatic it turns out.
• Like any other first course, this soup is prepared on the basis of broth. What it will be depends on the recipe.
• Sea cocktail, as a rule, includes the following seafood: oysters, fish, shrimp, mussels, squid. You need to know this in order if the hostess decided not to buy a ready-made cocktail in a bag, but to make it herself.
• Sea cocktail soup can also be prepared on a milk or tomato basis. It all depends on the chosen recipe. In addition, sometimes cheese, pasta and even seaweed can be added as additional ingredients.

And now we go directly to our recipes. Ready?

Sea cocktail puree soup

Let's agree right away that each of our recipes as the main ingredient - a sea cocktail - involves the use of a ready-made frozen semi-finished product. Here we buy it, and at the same time stock up:

• chicken stock cube;
• cream 20% fat (200 g);
• dry white wine (you need 250 ml);
• champignons (150 g);
• butter (50 g);
• celery.

How will we cook

Defrost the sea cocktail, boil it likeindicated on the package. Melt the butter in a saucepan, fry the mushrooms and our cocktail on it. This will take five minutes. And then pour in wine, chicken broth from a cube (250 ml), when it boils, add celery, s alt. Cook over low heat for twenty minutes. We let the dish cool, get rid of the celery, and send the rest of the contents of the pan to a blender. After that add cream. Done!

Some housewives are mistaken, calling this dish only “cream soup”. A sea cocktail made with cream would be more correct, if you really want to, to call it a creamy soup. But the first definition testifies more to culinary illiteracy than to the availability of recipes for making such soups. Or maybe the hostesses are just trying to find some recipe that is not quite traditional for our cuisine, who knows. By the way, if it is the latter, then we will be happy to help you replenish the piggy bank of recipes for making seafood soups. Let's take a look at oriental cuisine for this. There's definitely a lot to learn there.

Tom Yum

To prepare this exotic dish, we “arm ourselves” with the following products:

• allspice - 2 g;
• chili pepper - 1 pc.;
• garlic - 4 cloves;
• soy sauce - 50 ml;
• lime - 1 piece;
• long grain rice - 100g;
• parsley - 1 bunch;
• tomato - 1 pc.;
• s alt (as much as you need).

Cooking process

Chop the garlic very finely with a knife, send it to a pot of water (one liter will be enough), s alt. After the contents boil, throw in the rice and cook it for no more than five minutes. Add a pre-defrosted sea cocktail, after three minutes pour lime juice and throw in chili pepper, cut into thin strips. Season with pepper, add diced tomato. Cooking for another three minutes. Sprinkle with parsley before serving.

And, of course, you can't ignore the multicooker that has become so popular today. Therefore, in conclusion, a few words about how you can cook such a soup in it.

Sea cocktail in a slow cooker

I must say that absolutely all recipes for sea cocktail soup are suitable for a miracle pot. That is, to put it simply, there are practically no specific ones, specifically for a multicooker. Everything that is offered on culinary forums and is interpreted as a recipe for cooking in a slow cooker is based on a traditional recipe. Therefore, do not break your head especially! If you already have a slow cooker in your kitchen, feel free to cook in it any of the types of soups you like from sea cocktails. Just follow one rule: if the products need to be fried, then use the “Baking” mode for this, and to cook, feel free to press the “Soup” button. As for the cooking time itself, it will be the same as indicated in the usual recipe.