Assorted seafood salad

The delicious seafood salad here comes from Greek cuisine. Seafood salads, recipes for light dishes of shrimp, squid and other sea creatures with olives and olive oil dressing are generally typical of Mediterranean cuisine. This salad, light and filling at the same time, will perfectly satisfy hunger on a hot day or become the main course of a romantic dinner. This seafood salad recipe is also suitable for fans of healthy eating.

Ingredients

• Mussels in the sink - 1 kg
• or Mussels, peeled - 300 g
• Peeled sea molluscs - 0.5 kg
• Shell-on shrimp - 2 cups
• or Peeled Shrimp - 0.75 cups
• Squids (carcasses) - 3 pcs.
• Garlic - 1 clove
• Parsley greens - 1 bunch
• Pitted olives - 1 cup
• Olive oil - 0.3 cups
• Lemon juice - 2 tbsp. spoons
• Ground black pepper - 0.3 tsp
• Salt - 3 pinches

Directions

1. Cook shrimp for 5-7 minutes, remove from water, cool. Clean if necessary: ​​remove shells, heads, antennae and viscera (remove from back).
2. Dip the mussels in boiling water and cook over high heat for 5-6 minutes under a closed lid until they open. Then remove the pan from the heat. If the clams were in the shells, remove the mussels from the shells.
3. In the broth of mussels, boil sea mollusks (for example, rapanas or scallops). Boil the clams for 5-10 minutes.
4. Defrost the frozen squid. If necessary, peel the squid carcasses, wash and cut the body into rings.
5. Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a frying pan, add a pinch of salt and simmer the squid meat until soft. (1 minute).
6. Then place the squid rings on a deep platter or on a large plate.
7. Finely chop the parsley.
8. Lightly dry the olives and cut into small slices.
9. Prepare the seasoning: peel the garlic, crush it, squeeze out lemon juice, mix olive oil with lemon juice, black pepper, salt to taste (2-3 pinches), add chopped olives and parsley.
10. Mix everything thoroughly.
11. If large clams are used, they must be chopped up.
12. Combine shrimp, mussels, sea clams and season with cooked seasoning.
13. Stir gently and place in a heap on the squid rings.
14. The finished salad can be garnished with boiled shrimp. Serve the seafood salad chilled.