Pilaf with seafood

This dish will be appreciated by lovers of seafood and rice. Cooking pilaf from a seafood cocktail with vegetables and dry wine. Pilaf is baked in the oven in portioned pots or ceramic dishes. Shrimps are served with pilaf in the form of kebabs. Ingredients are listed for 2 servings and 2 pots.

Pilaf with seafood, like any other pilaf, is very convenient to cook in a slow cooker. In a tall bowl, the ingredients are easy to fry and mix - nothing will fall out and oil splashes won't get anywhere. And the temperature regime of the multicooker itself is designed for cooking rice as well as possible. Before placing seafood in the bowl, be sure to defrost it. In this recipe, we use mussels, but it can be just a mixture of different seafood, which are usually sold in the freezer departments.

This pilaf has direct Mediterranean roots and immediately conjures up thoughts of paella. However, there are more vegetables in the composition, and the cooking technology is still slightly different. Ideally, of course, you need to use fresh seafood, but in our conditions this is problematic. Therefore, we take frozen ones - it comes out a little less aromatic, but everything is also delicious! Rice should be crumbly, so we pay attention to the long-grain variety or parboiled rice.

To prepare a fragrant Crimean pilaf, it is not necessary to use the freshest seafood from the Black Sea coast. We take frozen mussels and rapanas, which can be found in any supermarket in the freezer section. Rice, of course, we take long-grain: ordinary white or unpolished.We recommend preparing the dish in a thick-walled frying pan or cauldron - heating in such a dish is uniform and of high quality, practically excluding burning.

Cooking pilaf based on Spanish paella. First of all, we will fry the spices so that they reveal their aroma and give it to all the other ingredients. Then fry the chicken and pieces of vegetables. Last but not least, add the washed rice and shrimp. Under the lid, the pilaf will be cooked over low heat for no more than twenty minutes, and then it will still come to readiness with the stove off. The result is an aromatic, satisfying meal for the whole family.

You can pamper yourself and your family with pilaf with shrimps even when there is no time for "feats" in the kitchen. After all, special efforts and a lot of time are not required for cooking. Fast, simple, tasty - this is just about such a pilaf. If there is a package of peeled frozen shrimps in the freezer, this is a direct way for such seafood to delicious pilaf.

One of the options for pilaf with squid, where we first prepare a “base” of rice and vegetables, and only then add the squid. Delicate seafood will stay soft as the cooking time is reduced to a minimum. Rice is best used long and parboiled is also good. The grains will not stick together during cooking and the pilaf will be crumbly.

We offer to cook delicious pilaf with shrimps and squid. For a complete "company" of seafood, you can also add mussels. Such a dish can be prepared both at home on the stove and on the grill in the fresh air - and this is a great alternative to kebabs, by the way. Serve hot flavored pilaf - it is juicy and full-bodied. Additionally, we serve vegetables and herbs.

In order not to bother with cleaning squid, you can buy already peeled or even already cut into rings. The cooking time in the kitchen will be reduced significantly. Pilaf with squid does not take long to cook, and if the seafood is already prepared, then even faster. We recommend using olive oil for frying onions: it gives a characteristic delicate aroma that will only decorate the dish.

If you are tired of meat pilaf, you can add variety and cook pilaf with seafood - squid. It is not entirely clear whether this dish will correspond to the name "pilaf", but according to the principle of preparation and the final result, it is very similar. It is important not to stew the tender squid, as it becomes tough in this case. Therefore, we pre-boil the rice until half cooked, fry the vegetables separately until fully cooked. Mix everything together with raw squid and cook for just a few minutes.

Experienced culinary experts say that pilaf with shrimps should be cooked in a slightly different way than pilaf with meat, and it is undesirable to pre-fry the shrimps, otherwise they will quickly become rubbery, and they must disintegrate when pricked on a fork. This allows you to make a multicooker. For such pilaf, it is better to take peeled frozen shrimp. Any rice can be used, just not round, so that rice porridge does not turn out. Spices are added to pilaf by personal choice. Your dish will turn out to be not only tasty, but also low-calorie.

Of the many options for shrimp and rice dishes, many choose pilaf. This hearty and at the same time light dish can be quickly prepared both for a family dinner and for gatherings with friends. Cooking pilaf in a cauldron.

Each housewife prepares pilaf according to her own recipe: someone with meat, someone with mushrooms, someone with dried fruits, and those who like to experiment often cook pilaf with seafood. Pilaf with shrimps and mussels turns out to be incredibly tasty and outwardly very beautiful. You can change the amount of seafood and vegetables to your liking. Any dish for cooking such pilaf is suitable.

Pilaf with mussels cannot be called real pilaf, but it is delicious, and a slow cooker will make it fragrant and crumbly. You will pleasantly surprise both your family and invited guests with this exclusive dish. The recipe is simple and doesn't require any special culinary skills.

Of the many options for various pilaf without meat, pilaf with mussels will be attractive, which, thanks to high-quality protein, unsaturated fatty acids, make the dish not only healthy and exotic, but also delicious. You will get an exquisite dish for dinner with friends and for fasting days.

Pilaf is one of those dishes in the preparation of which you can vary with the ingredients to your taste and budget. In this recipe, you are invited to replace meat in pilaf with seafood. The dish will turn out to be spicy, healthy and light for the body. You can take any seafood, individually or in a cocktail. If instead of regular rice, you use quickly boiled rice, then you will cook the dish in 30 minutes.