Seafood Recipes Make Excellent Dinners For You And Your Family

Seafood recipes can be EASY, yet they are fun and healthy as well! Using your favorite seafood, such as shrimp, mussels scallops or crab and a few of the ideas given in this article you can continue to create unique and healthy seafood recipes each and every time.

Time is short for a working woman who is also a wife and mother. Clambake recipes are good but they take a long time to cook, and lobster recipes are of course also good but lobster is expensive. These recipes are non traditional and I must put dinner in on the table in a good amount of time. The recipes are good but not worth it if they take too long to make. However pleasing my family is also a priority.

I personally have trouble eyeballing ingredients to see if I have added the right amount. I have a few ingredients that I use frequently in many dishes and have adapted them into my new healthier menu. Seafood is excellent for a tasty, low-calorie menu becuase it can be cooked in almost any fashion without losing its flavor.

Let’s think about shrimp for example… a pound of 26 - 35 count shrimp on sale should cost you about $8.00 and what a treat your whole family will love! Peel and de-vein your shrimp using a small paring knife fed through the back of the shrimp from the top to the tail (knife facing away from shrimp body and cutting through the shell) making it easy to open up the shell so your shrimp will pop right out! And save even more time, by purchasing the already peeled and de-veined frozen version.

Use about a teaspoon of butter and a teaspoon of extra-virgin olive oil in the bottom of a saute pan, add a clove or garlic (let’s be honest - we are not peeling and mincing our own garlic here, we are using a teaspoon of already chopped garlic in the jar), a half of finely chopped sweet onion, some salt and pepper, some parsley and your favorite seafood seasoning. You can just as easily wrap all of your ingredients in foil and pop on the grill or under the broiler for about 20 minutes for no-fuss cooking.

The shrimp should be served on a bed of wild rice cooked with chicken broth. Asparagus and tender baby portabella mushrooms, cooked together on the stove or over the grill with salt to taste and a dash of extra virgin olive oil, make an excellent side dish. These items combine to make a delicious dinner that is low in calories and quickly prepared (in no more than 45 minutes). Cleaning up shouldn’t be a problem either.

Seafood cooking with crab/shrimp/scallops is fun/easy/nutritious/low calories. Although clambake recipes and lobster recipes are good, they consume more time and money, which are precious for a working wife/mother. One would use a few favorite ingredients in any seafood recipes to give healthier/tastier food and they are amenable for grilling/sauteing/broiling. A pound of shrimp containing 26/27 pieces cost $8 and is sufficient for a family. Shrimps are peeled using a knife, remove the veins and open the shell. The ingredients used are butter/olive oil /clove/chopped garlic/onion/salt/pepper/parsley. Oil is heated on a saucepan and the ingredients with shrimp are wrapped in foil and grilled/broiled. Serve the shrimps with rice/asparagus/mushrooms.

- Matthew Lewis