Showing posts with label octopus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label octopus. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Sea Food Risotto


                                                                Sea food risotto
Ingredients:
2 cups of chicken stock
1/4 tea spoon saffron threads

2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 cup of chopped shallots
1 cup arborio rice or medium-grain white rice
4 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 glass dry white wine
1 cup of bottled clam juice
20 mussels, scrubbed, debearded
12 littleneck clams, scrubbed
12 uncooked large shrimp, peeled, deveined, tails left intact
3/4 cup chopped tomatoes
1/4 cup of green onions, sliced
Lemon wedges

How to cook: 

Bring stock and saffron to simmer in medium saucepan. Remove from heat; cover to keep warm.
Heat olive oil in a pan. Add shallots; sauté until tender, about 2 minutes. Add rice and garlic; stir 1 minute. Add white wine and stir until absorbed, about 2 minutes. Add 1/2 cup saffron stock and simmer until absorbed, stirring frequently. Add remaining stock 1/2 cup at a time, allowing stock to be absorbed before adding more and stirring frequently until rice is cooked halfway, about 10 minutes. Add clam juice, mussels, littleneck clams, shrimp and chopped tomatoes. Cover and simmer until rice is tender, mussels and clams open, shrimp are cooked through and liquid is absorbed, about 10 minutes (discard any mussels and clams that do not open). Divide seafood and saffron risotto equally among 4 bowls. Sprinkle with sliced green onions. Garnish with lemon wedges. Serve, passing Green Olive Relish separately



Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Seafood Pizza/Crepes

You can cook seafood pizza but if you can also make it with crepes. Here, i will tell you how to make seafood crep.
Ingredients:
300 grams sea bass
2 pieces of mushrooms
50 grams of boiled shrimps
50 grams of boiled mussels
1 red pepper
1 tea glass of grated cheese
1 spoon of tomato paste
Salt
Thyme
Red pepper

For the crepe:
2 eggs
1.5 glass of flour
1 glass of water
1/2 glass of milk
1 teaspoon of salt
Butter

For crepe, mix flour, salt, milk and water. Add the eggs and mix well until it becomes like dough. Cook both sides of the crepe.
Cut the sea bass into small pieces and start cooking in a pan. Add all the ingredients. Place this mixture inside your crepe, put grated cheese on top and cook in oven (160 C)

Aubergine filled with shrimps and octopus



Ingredients:

1 aubergine
100 grams shrimp
100 grams octopus
1 onion
1 clove of garlic
1 piece of red pepper
1 piece of green pepper
1 tomato
50 grams of grated cheese

How to cook:
 
Cut the aubergine into two pieces and fry. After they become cold, clean inside. 
Cut onion, garlic, peppers, domato and octopus into small pieces. First, saute onions, then garlic, peppers, octopus, tomato and finally shrimps. Fill the aubergine with this mixture. Put grated cheese on top and cook in the oven for 15 minutes. Kali oreksi