How to cook shrimp?
It would seem that difficult to cook shrimp, which should be tasty anyway? However, this is simply a matter of a lot of if not difficulties, then the nuances that need to be considered in each case, because overcooked shrimp will lose all your taste and charm.
Cook and defrost correctly
The main thing to do before embarking on cooking shrimp – moderate culinary passion and show restraint and caution. After that, you need to decide which shrimp are needed for the dish or what are available Available: raw or already cooked. The first ones are grayish in color, and the second is pink.
About 90% of manufacturers supply store shelves shrimps that are cooked in a factory way. In this case, the method preparations come down to eliminating and giving ice to the product required absorption temperature.
Cooking options
- If the shrimp is frozen and already cooked by the factory way, then it’s enough to put them in a colander and shed qualitatively boiling water. The last one needs so much with shrimp the ice is completely gone. If the container is small and you need to defrost a large number of shrimp, then they need to be divided into small party.
After the shrimp thawed, they need to be laid out in a bowl and pour boiling water so that a layer of water covers the upper shrimp. Wait literally 30 seconds (if the shrimp is very large, then you can 40 seconds) and drain the water. Peeled shrimp put on a dish, pour with lemon juice and serve or use as a semi-finished product for further cooking.
- Cooking in the sauce. We take the pan and pour water into it in 2 times the volume of shrimp. We put on the fire. As soon as water starts to boil (the first bubbles appear), add the juice there, squeezed from half a lemon, 1 bay leaf, black pepper and a couple carnations. For fans to diversify the standard taste, you can suggest putting a piece of ginger or the head of garlic.
The starting point here is boiling water. If the shrimp is cooked manufacturer, then dip them in boiling water, close the lid and generally turn off the fire without removing from the burner. We are waiting for exactly 2 minutes, then with the help of a slotted spoon lay out the shrimp on a plate.
In the case when the shrimp are raw, for cooking take more time, so after lowering the ingredient in boiling water, reduce the fire to a minimum and just cover saucepan lid, let’s go out a couple. For 5-7 minutes stir the shrimp carefully so that they do not fall apart or broke down. Shrimps that have surfaced come out with a slotted spoon or but we drain the water through a colander.
