Seafood Meadaly

Bedlam

So I saw a seafood meadaly at Wal-mart when grocery shopping and had to have it. It contains shrimp, crab, squid, and surimi. It is all precooked but I need advice on how to prepare it.

I was thinking of serving it with white rice. I was also thinking of heating it up in the frying pan with a little butter for flavor. What I was wondering is if I should go out and get some kind of a sauce to serve it with or if that sounds good by itself. Its kind of a large portion so Im just a little bit afriad of screwing it up and not wanting the leftovers.

Any advice would be helpful as I would be cooking this tomorrow for lunch. (7/29)

bsjezz

Spaghetti Marinara is the bomb. Simmer up a sauce with onions, garlic, tinned tomatoes and some tomato paste, salt, pepper, a chilli if you like it spicy and some italian herbs (basil and oregano) and lemon juice. Since the seafood's already cooked (always a bit dodgy with seafood, but if you don't have it available fresh, why not?) just chuck it in for long enough to make sure it's hot. Serve on Spaghetti (or even better, Linguine), a bit of parmesan if you're brave enough to do Cheese + Seafood. Awesome.

(If you want to be quick you could always just chuck it in a pre-made jar of spaghetti sauce, but where's the fun in that?)

Omnicron9999

Not a bad plan bsjezz. Personally though, tomato sauce really kills the flavor in a good deal of seafood. It can work though.

To Bedlam, gentle heating in some butter would be very nice. A low temperature pan with a bit of butter would be ideal. Get it all hot, not for too long, while its cooking, add (if you have it: some dill, maybe basil...basically a small amount of some herbs). Salt and pepper, and then some lemon juice and zest. (I like alot)

It comes down to how you like your sea meat. Flavor it how you like, just warm it very slowly. Too much heat will make it rubbery.

Lemon is ideal, other additions are up to you. I know it requires a good deal of experimentation.

The best canned seafood I have ever had was canned lobster with a bit of lemon and butter on a toasted roll. Simplicity wins!



I assumed this was cooked meat from the get-go, I could be wrong.

TychoCelchuuu

It's good stir-fried with chopped bell peppers and whatever sauce you want, like soy or teriyaki. Feel free to add more than just bell peppers, of course.