Boiled frozen mussels are boiled for 2-3 minutes after boiling water.
Frozen mussels are boiled for 5-7 minutes.
Cook fresh mussels in shells for 12 minutes. In the microwave at full power, boiled and frozen mussels can be cooked with a little water (half a kilo of mussels, half a glass of water) for 7 minutes at a power of 800 watts.
Boiled mussels recipe
Products
Frozen mussels – 300 grams
Water – 1 glass
Salt – 1 teaspoon
How to cook mussels
1. Pour 1 cup of water into a small saucepan.
2. Salt the water.
3. Put the mussels in the water without defrosting; cook for 7 minutes.
4. Drain the water, use boiled mussels in salads and main dishes.
How to cook mussels in gadgets
In a double boiler over steam – 10 minutes, so cooked mussels are the most useful.
In the multivariate or in the open pressure cooker – 5 minutes after boiling water.
In the microwave it is better to cook mussels, slightly defrosting – literally 2-3 minutes at full power without adding water.
Delicious facts
– When boiling mussels, it must be taken into account that overcooked mussels will become rubbery and tasteless. Therefore, you should not cook mussels for too long.
– Calorie value mussel meat – 70 kcal / 100 grams.
– Cost frozen mussels -500-600 rubles / 1 kilogram of boiled-frozen mussels (as of May 2016).
– Mussels are boiled in a small amount salted water – otherwise all the juice of the mussels will go into the broth, which in practice is used very rarely.
– Before cooking mussels do not defrostsince their size is too small for cooking frozen mussels to spoil the product – mussels will instantly be thawed in boiling water!
– When choosing mussels Reverse the weight of mussels without ice glaze (always indicated on the package and can reach up to 1/5 the weight of mussel meat) and the integrity of the ice glaze. Fresh high quality mussels do not have a pungent smell, much less fish. There should be only a slight fresh scent of seafood.
– How to clean mussels?
Boiled-frozen (the most common) mussels do not need to be processed, because they are without shell. Sometimes mussels need to be cleaned of algae – filamentous tough plants. If the mussels are cheap, it is better to sort out the mussels and examine them for shell fragments.
Frozen and fresh mussels covered with a shell must be cleaned: using a brush, clean the mussels from inedible algae and other contaminants, and then rinse in several waters. Cooking will help the mussels to open, after opening the shells, remove the mussels and remove the rest of the algae.
– If mussels are supposed fry, then you can fry them without cooking – in oil for 5-7 minutes.
– When boiling, mussels can not open up – in this case, they are removed from the edible.
– What to cook from boiled mussels:
1. Cook the soup.
2. Serve with spaghetti or other pasta.
3. Make pilaf with mussels.
4. Make a salad or seafood appetizer.