Sea cabbage, or laminaria, – the real well of useful substances: iodine, organic acids, mineral minerals, vitamins A, In and Page. Inclusion in a diet of dishes with a sea cabbage increases immunity, normalizes a metabolism, regulates cholesterol level. Shops sell a sea cabbage in the tinned, dried and frozen types. Before the use it should be boiled.
It is required to you
- For a pickled sea cabbage:
- - 600 g of a boiled laminaria;
- - 2 glasses of water;
- - sugar;
- - salt;
- - bay leaf;
- - carnation;
- - tablespoon of 3% of vinegar.
Instruction
1. Touch a dehydrated sea cabbage, put on a sieve and wash with warm boiled water. Shift in other capacity and fill in with fresh water at the rate of 1:8 (one part of a laminaria, eight parts of water). Leave a sea cabbage to be presoaked for ten-twelve hours.
2. Carefully wash out a laminaria in flowing water, put in a pan, fill in with hot water in the same proportion 1:8 and put on average fire. After boiling boil thoroughly a sea cabbage until ready within thirty-forty minutes. Then merge broth.
3. For double cooking fill in the laminaria which is washed out after soaking with water 1:4 (one part of a sea cabbage, four parts of water), boil thoroughly thirty after boiling of minutes. Cast away a laminaria on a colander, and merge broth. Fill in a sea cabbage with hot boiled water and boil thoroughly half an hour more. Catch a skimmer a laminaria, cool and use for preparation of various dishes: borsches, rassolniks, soups, salads, ragout, cutlets and casseroles.
4. Defreeze the frozen sea cabbage before cooking. For this purpose lower it for about thirty minutes in cool water (15-20 degrees). Then very carefully wash out in a large amount of water.
5. Fill in a laminaria with cold water at the rate of 1:2, put on strong fire and bring to the boil. Boil thoroughly minutes fifteen-twenty and merge broth. Do this procedure two more times. Triple heat treatment of a sea cabbage considerably will improve its gustatory qualities.
6. The tinned sea cabbage is ready-to-serve. But minutes five recommend to boil thoroughly it too.
7. Pickled sea cabbage. Boil water, add sugar, salt, a carnation, bay leaf and you cook within ten-fifteen minutes. Cool marinade and pour in vinegar. Chop a boiled sea cabbage noodles, fill in with a cold marinade and put to the cool place for about eight-ten hours to be pickled. The laminaria prepared according to this recipe can be given as a garnish to vegetable and fish dishes, to add to salads.