Steam cooking
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Shellfish
Preparation
Defrost frozen shellfish before cooking with steam.
Peel, remove and discard the intestines, and then wash the shellfish.
Cooking containers
If using a perforated container, grease it first.
Duration
The longer shellfish are cooked, the tougher they become. Use the cooking dura‐
tion
s given in the chart.
When cooking shellfish in sauce or stock, we recommend that you increase the
coo
king duration quoted by a few minutes.
Settings
| Shellfish | ... | Steam cooking
or
T
emperature: see chart
Duration: see chart
[°C] [min]
Crevettes 90 3
Prawns 90 3
King prawns 90 4
Small shrimps 90 3
Lobster 95 10–15
Large shrimps 90 3
T
emperature / Cooking duration