The meat of shrimp is rich in proteins and calcium, it contains useful mineral salts, zinc and potassium, low-fat acids. This is a low-calorie product and is considered dietary.
In the diet of patients who are recovering, shrimp meat plays an unimportant role. In particular, eating shrimp meat is recommended for asthma and rheumatoid arthritis. Among all the variety of seafood, shrimp is the first in iodine content.
How to boil the prawns? To do this, they need to be lowered into salted boiling water, and cook five to ten minutes from the time the water boils again. This is the easiest way to properly cook shrimp. Shrimps are very easy to prepare, and, despite the fact that this recipe is very simple, the meat turns delicious and tender. It's rather difficult to cook shrimp is not tasty. There are several more complex recipes. For example, a boiling broth along with shrimp can put spices. Carnations of cloves, a little bay leaf, black and fragrant pepper, half a cut lemon, a clove of garlic, and a few tablespoons of tomato paste, put salt to taste. After boiling, shrimp should be allowed to boil in this brine for ten to fifteen minutes. Often shrimp is boiled with the addition of caraway and dill.
Boiled shrimp can also be served with a sauce. To make it you will need one clove of garlic, a tablespoon of good olive oil, one sharp red pepper and one lemon. Peel and crush garlic with garlic, or just chop it. Red pepper should be finely chopped, and then fried in olive oil, adding to it chopped garlic. While the sauce is hot, squeeze fresh lemon juice into it, add salt and spices to taste. Before serving the shrimp on the table, pour them with this sauce.
When cooking shrimp, the most important thing is not to digest them. Prawns are cooked until they become bright orange and begin to float to the surface of the water. On average, the time for boiling shrimps is about five to ten minutes. If you cook shrimp more than this time, they will lose the tenderness of their taste, and the meat will be tough. After you turn off the fire you can leave the shrimp in the broth for about fifteen minutes, from which they will become even more succulent. Before you serve them on the table, flip the shrimp in a colander and allow the water to drain into the sink. For more aesthetics, shrimp can be beautifully placed on a platter and decorated with greens. In case you intend to use shrimp to make a salad or some other dishes, then after cooking they should be dipped in cold water for a short time, and then let it drain. Thanks to this action, the meat of the shrimp will be much easier to remove from the shell.
When buying shrimp in a store, you should carefully choose them. The color of good and quality shrimps is uniform and smooth, and their tail is slightly bent. There are several signs with which you can determine what shrimp is of poor quality. The dried shell, yellowish meat, small black spots on the shell and paws will indicate the old age of the shrimp. If the shrimps have white or faint spots, this indicates that they have been frozen. The presence of ice and snow in the package with shrimps will tell you that during their transportation and storage the temperature regime was violated. Experts argue that the unbent tail of the shrimp indicates that the shrimp has died before freezing. Although shrimp with a black head trying to cull the manufacturers themselves, sometimes they come across in packages. The black head of the shrimp is a sign that she was sick a lot.