Easy Seafood Recipes To Whet Your Appetite

Many people avoid buying or cooking with seafood because they wrongly assume it is difficult to use. Actually, it is very easy to cook and there are many great seafood recipes you can make at home, even if you are new to using this exciting ingredient. So rather than eating at a seafood restaurant Los Angeles, why not make your own shellfish delights?

Easy Seafood Casserole

Meat Casseroles

If you want to combine various kinds of shellfish in one dish, what about making a delicious seafood casserole? You will need half a pound each of jumbo shrimp, lobster meat, crabmeat, and sea scallops. Chop the scallops and lobster into quarter inch pieces, and peel and de-vein the shrimp.

Saute the scallops in a little butter, salt and pepper until they are translucent, then add them to the rest of the seafood in a big bowl. Add quarter of a cup of mayonnaise, a tablespoon of Old Bay seafood seasoning and the juice of a lemon. Pour quarter of a cup of heavy cream over the mixture, and then sprinkle quarter of a cup of flax meal on top.

A little dry sherry added at this point will give the seafood casserole recipe a wonderful flavor. Stir the mixture well and put it in a big casserole dish. Sprinkle parmesan cheese on top and bake it for half an hour at 400 degrees F or until it is golden brown on top.

Italian Style Scallops

This recipe is very simple and it you can make it in less than ten minutes. Heat two teaspoons of oil in a skillet and saute a pound of sea scallops in there until they are translucent. Keep the heat moderately high for this. Take the scallops out of the skillet and keep them warm. Add half a sliced onion and a minced garlic clove to the skillet and saute them for a couple of minutes.

Add a cup of diced tomatoes, quarter of a cup of chopped olives, quarter of a teaspoon of dried thyme, a pinch each of salt and black pepper and a tablespoon of dried basil. Saute the mixture for a couple of minutes or until everything is tender. Spoon this sauce over the scallops and serve.

Simple Crab Fried Rice

This is another quick and easy dish, which features crabmeat, rice and vegetables, as well as eggs and garlic. To make this, you need to heat a tablespoon of peanut oil in a wok, and then add two minced cloves of garlic and a minced onion. Stir fry them over a high heat for a minute, then add two tablespoons of fish sauce and eight ounces of white crabmeat.

Cook for five minutes or until the crab is hot. Take the mixture out of the wok. Add another tablespoon of peanut oil to the wok and cook two lightly beaten eggs in there until they are set. Stir in three cups of cooked white rice, the crabmeat mixture, half a cup of green peas and a tablespoon of sesame oil. Season the crab fried rice with salt and pepper and add five sliced green onions. Take it off the heat and serve hot.

Easy Seafood Recipes To Whet Your Appetite

There are many easy recipes you can make with seafood and this healthy ingredient is always popular whether you eat dinner at a seafood restaurant Los Angeles or whether you make your own shellfish dish.

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