Winter this year is failing everywhere. Somewhere even plus temperatures and the grass turns green, while frost should crack and snow should lie. Doctors sound the alarm: in such weather, the flu epidemic is expected to be severe. And this means that you need to urgently protect yourself with tasty and healthy food. A squid snack is what the doctor ordered.
Add to them lemon, apple, garlic and hot pepper. An explosion on the verge of a gastronomic show. Not a single microbe can stand it. Lemon vitamin C will strengthen immunity, apple pectin will cleanse the body of “garbage”, garlic is an excellent “goalkeeper” and an antibiotic, with it not a single “puck” will fly like a goal into your goal, but chili will give heat from the inside. With such a menu, the chances of influenza are zero. A few easy movements at the stove and you have the opportunity to have a good time at the table. Cooking
Total and active cooking time - 45 minutes
Cost - 5 $
Calorie content per 100 g - 82 kcal
Servings Per Container - 4 Servings
Ingredients:
Squid - 4 pcs. (carcass)
Rice - 1/2 tbsp.
Apple - 1 pc.
Lemon - 1 pc.
Cottage cheese - 80 gr.
Chili pepper - 3 pcs. (pod)
Garlic - 4 tooth.
Sweet paprika - 4-5 tablespoons
Salt to taste
Dill - for serving
Cooking:
Peel and boil squids. Cut off “ears” and “nose” and wavy lower edge. Visual carcass visually divided into two or three parts and cut. Slice the rest with a cube.
Boil rice and place on a sieve. For squid cups, I use Viola rice. As a true descendant of the best Italian rice varieties, Viola does not contain amylose in the composition of starch, therefore it gives the dishes a very delicate creamy-velvety taste. In addition, it is ideal for children's diets, because it does not contain gluten.
Remove the zest from the lemon, squeeze the juice out of half. Cut the apple into quarters, remove the core, chop the pulp into a small cube. Chili pod cut thin slices obliquely. Grate the garlic on a medium grater.
In a working bowl, mix rice, squid, apple, garlic, chili (leave some for decoration) and cottage cheese. Add the zest and lemon juice. To salt. Pour “cups” with this porridge.
Pour ground paprika onto a dry flat plate and, as it were, powder the squid pallor and roll the sides of each “cup” in pepper. Place on a plate, garnish with chili slices and dill. Squid appetizer "Hot glasses" is ready!
Squids in wine sauce Chop onion and garlic. Bake the pepper in the oven as soon as the skin is browned, cut the pepper in half, remove the seeds, then remove the skin from the pulp and cut the pulp into cubes. Pour the tomatoes over boiling water, peel off the skin, finely chop the flesh Pour over squids ...Required: squid - 4 pcs., Dry red wine - 100 g, fish broth - 100 g, tomatoes - 400 g, onions - 1 head, garlic - 1 clove, sweet red pepper - 1 pc., Parsley - 1 bunch , lemon - 1/2 pc., vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons, black milk pepper ...
Paste stuffed squids Squid carcasses, having cleaned from surface films and removing chitin plates, cook for 5 minutes in boiling salted water with lemon, bay leaf and pepper, cool. For minced meat, cut the vegetables into strips, fry in oil, cool. Mix vegetables with paste ...Required: squid carcasses - 1 kg, mayonnaise - 100 g, lemon - 1/4 pcs., Bay leaf - 1 pc., Black peppercorns - 3-4 pcs., Salt, paste - 300 g, carrots - 2 pcs. , onions - 2 heads, butter - 50 g, boiled eggs - 2 pcs.
Squid julienne Scald squids, strip off the film and remove the cartilage plate. Chop the squid into strips. Cut the mushrooms into slices and fry in pieces of oil, stirring constantly, for 10 minutes, put the squid, salt, pepper and fry for another 2-3 minutes. For the sauce, flour ...Required: squid - 500 g, mushrooms or porcini mushrooms - 100 g, sour cream - 200 g, grated hard cheese - 60 g, butter - 3 tbsp. spoons, wheat flour - 2 tbsp. spoons, ground paprika
Squid fries For squid, separate tail fins from carcasses, remove the chitin plate. Rinse the carcasses with cold water, remove a thin purple film. Dry the squid with a paper towel. Cut the carcasses into rings, and the tail fins into narrow stripes. On a flat plate ...Required: squid - 1 kg, wheat flour - 50 g, olive oil - 300 g, juice of 1 lemon, ground black pepper, salt
Squid with cottage cheese, eggs and sour cream Pass the squid through a meat grinder, mix with pasteurized cottage cheese, chopped boiled eggs, sour cream, salt, finely chopped parsley or dill and mix well. When serving, put in a plate with a slide and decorate the leaf ...Required: fillet of boiled squid - 400-500 g, cottage cheese - 200 g, eggs - 2-3 pcs., Sour cream - 4 tbsp. spoons, parsley or dill, salt - to taste
Teriyaki Squid Bring wine to a boil, set fire. When the flame goes out, add soy sauce, grated ginger and chopped garlic. Boil for 3 minutes, strain. Put it on the fire again, add sugar, stir. When it dissolves, tighten the starch sauce ...Required: squid - 800 g, asparagus - 150 g, broccoli - 150 g, champignons - 150 g, garlic - 2 cloves, chili pepper - 1/2 pcs., Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. spoons, soy sauce - 200 ml, dry white wine - 800 ml, ginger - 50 g, garlic - 2 cloves, sugar - 2 tbsp. l ...
Squid Stuffed Cucumbers Finely chop the squid and onion into thin rings. Mix squid with onion, salt, pepper, season with mayonnaise. Cut the cucumbers in half across. If the peel is rough, peel the cucumbers. After removing part of the core, fill the cucumbers with filling. ...Required: cucumbers - 6 pcs., Boiled squids - 300 g, green onions - 30 g, mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. spoons, white pepper powder, salt
Snack Assortment Cut the catfish and crab meat into pieces. Scale the squid and, having cleared the film and the chitin plate, cut into rings. Peel the shrimp. Sprinkle the prepared seafood with seasoning and fry separately in oil until golden brown. For ...Required: catfish - 150 g, shrimp - 150 g, crab meat - 150 g, squid - 150 g, vegetable oil - 6 tbsp. tablespoons, seasoning for fish - 2 tbsp. tablespoons, salt, tomatoes - 2 pcs., chili peppers - 1 pc., onions - 1 head, garlic - 3 cloves, soy sauce -...
Squid salad with crackers In boiling, salted water, lower the washed and peeled squids for 2-3 minutes and immediately remove. Cut into strips of 0.5-1 cm. Boil eggs, cool, cut not very finely. Drain the liquid from the olives, cut in half or on & ...Required: frozen squids - 500 g, eggs - 4 pcs., Pitted olives - 200 g, crackers - 100 g, onions - 1 pc., Mayonnaise
Snack Drunk Squid We prepare batter (egg, beer, flour, starch, spices), it should turn out as thick as a dough for fritters by consistency. Dip the squid in batter and deep-fried until golden brown. Serve with lemon.Required: 2 carcasses (medium) squid (or already cut into rings), batter: 1 pc. Egg, 50-100 gr. beer, 0.5 tsp of starch, 3-4 tbsp of flour (how much batter will take.), spices to taste, vegetable oil for deep fat., 1 pc. lemon.
Squid, at present, is a very popular product from which you can cook a large number of delicious dishes, including salads. As you know, the taste of this mollusk is neutral, and therefore it can be combined with a variety of ingredients. It is delicious with various vegetables, cereals, herbs, cheese, and of course with the same seafood as he is.
For a long time he was among the products belonging to the category of delicacies, and it was considered happiness to buy a can of canned squid. But now it’s not difficult to purchase it in the store, and we are happy to prepare it both for the holiday table and just for a regular lunch or dinner.
And rightly so, it is not only tasty and nutritious, but also very healthy. Eating the meat of this mollusk, in addition to the resulting proteins, vitamins and trace elements, helps to increase the vitality of the whole body, stimulates appetite, improves the emotional state, and even fights depression.
Therefore, this marine inhabitant is so popular among the people that each mistress has her own favorite recipes for its use. And especially salads.
Among them there are very simple recipes that can be prepared in 15 minutes. And there are recipes and more complicated, for the preparation of which will take more time. But all of them are united by one thing - they are very tasty!
With what kind of products they are not cooked, and what kind of sauces and dressings are not used. In today's selection, we will use the simplest ingredients as dressing. But if you like to experiment,
I hope that you like squid salads and find something new and interesting for you in today's selection.
This recipe is as tasty as simple. Cooking it is not difficult.
We will need:
Cooking:
Many people don’t like to cook dishes with squid due to the fact that they supposedly take a long time to clean, and they don’t want to bother with it. In fact, it’s not difficult to clean them and I will tell you how to do it,. Therefore, if you do not know that, then read it first. And here we will not delay readers who can easily cope with this.
1. Squid cleanse. Pour water into the pan; there should be plenty of water. Bring it to a boil, lightly salt and put the carcass or two. Close the lid, let it boil, then immediately open the lid and cook for 1.5 - 2 minutes.
There is a second way, in which the carcass is poured with boiling water and kept in it 3 times for one minute. Each time while draining the water.
I’ll tell you about all methods of heat treatment of squid
2. Remove the carcass from the water. If boiled, then it must be placed in cold water to stop the heat treatment process. Allow to cool, then cut into thin strips.
3. Cut boiled eggs and cheese into cubes.
4. Crab sticks in small pieces.
5. Grind greens and garlic. Chop green onions.
6. Mix 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise with garlic, add green onions, herbs and garlic. You can use ready-made garlic sauce, which can be bought at the store.
7. Mix in a bowl all the ingredients with sauce, salt and pepper.
8. Prepare a small hollow round shape, put it on a plate and tightly fill it with salad. Then carefully remove it. Mayonnaise will hold together all the ingredients and allow you to keep the shape of the salad.
9. Boil 6 - 7 shrimps, cool them and decorate the salad with them, add a sprig of greens as well.
A delicious and beautifully served salad is ready. Therefore, eat it with pleasure!
We will need:
Cooking:
1. Thoroughly clean squid carcasses of films and viscera. Boil them for 1.5 - 2 minutes in slightly salted water. Then rinse with cold water to stop the heat treatment process.
2. Make sure that there are no films left on the carcass and cut them into rings or half rings.
3. Boil eggs, cool, peel and cut into two halves. If desired, you can cut them into cubes.
4. Chop green onion and dill, mix with squid.
5. Put on a plate, beautifully lay the halves of the eggs. Sprinkle with salt and pour over olive oil.
If desired, you can serve a salad with sour cream or mayonnaise. It will be delicious, no matter how you serve it!
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Cooking:
1. Squid clean and boil.
2. Remove carcasses from water and allow to cool. Then cut into strips. You can cut both small and large straws, as anyone loves. If you want the taste of the salad to be more uniform, cut into thin strips, if you want the pieces of meat to be more tangible, cut larger.
3. Boil rice in slightly salted water in advance. So that it boils well and quickly, and is not too sticky, it must first be washed and soaked, and then rinsed again, until the water becomes clear.
Or you can use steamed rice, which does not stick during cooking.
4. Cooked rice should also be cooled. If you use excessively “sticky” varieties of rice, you can rinse it.
5. Dice boiled eggs, chop dill and chop onion feathers.
6. In a bowl, mix the squid, eggs and rice, try to do it carefully.
7. Prepare the dressing sauce. Mix sour cream, mayonnaise and chopped dill. Lightly salt, do not forget that the clams and rice were cooked in salted water, and mayonnaise also has a salty taste. Pepper to taste.
8. Add the sauce to the bowl and mix everything. Put on a plate and garnish with chopped onions.
This amount of ingredients is designed for 2 to 3 servings.
Using cucumbers and eggs, there are several delicious recipes. I like when crab sticks are also used with these ingredients. Although the simplest option can be cooked without them.
We will need:
Cooking:
1. Squids to clean and boil in slightly salted water for 2 minutes, or pour boiling water over them and let stand a little. Then remove from water and allow to cool.
Then cut into thin strips.
2. Dice eggs, crab sticks and cucumbers.
Fresh cucumbers are very good to use in combination with squid. They complement each other perfectly. And the smell and taste of the salad acquires notes of freshness of a good mood.
3. Cut green onions. Set aside a piece of onion for decoration.
4. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl, salt and pepper to taste. Season with mayonnaise. You may need 3 tablespoons, but if you like them more nutritious, add a little more mayonnaise.
5. Let the salad stand for 20-30 minutes, so that it starts up the juice and soaks in mayonnaise. And you can let him stand and a little more time.
6. Before serving, garnish with remaining green onions. For decoration, you can also use fresh parsley and cut into slices or straws cucumber.
Here we have such a salad, beautiful, nutritious and very tasty.
This recipe also involves the use of cucumbers, but only canned ones, as well as squids.
We will need:
Cooking:
1. Squids cut into cubes and put in a bowl. It can be cut both in large cubes and smaller. As you like more.
2. Potatoes also cut into cubes, about the same size as the squid. Add to bowl.
3. So that the shape of the salad is not uniform, cut the cucumbers into strips.
4. Put them in the already chopped ingredients and add green peas.
5. Season with salt and pepper to taste and season with mayonnaise.
6. Garnish with fresh herbs.
Do not look that it is so simple. It is as simple as tasty. Therefore, as a salad for every day, it is perfect for both lunch and dinner.
This salad has a name. It is called “Kamchatsky”, apparently there are quite a lot of squid in Kamchatka, and therefore it was called there.
We will need:
Cooking:
1. Squid clean and boil in slightly salted water, then remove and put briefly in cold water so that they cool quickly. Dry with paper towels, and if films are left, clean them.
Cut into strips and put in a bowl.
2. Cut the cucumber into small cubes, add to a bowl.
3. Chop the onion as finely as possible, also cut them into cubes and add to the ingredients already chopped.
4. Cut the egg into cubes, or you can use an egg slicer. Since using it turns out quite a small cut, you can cut the eggs into strips.
5. Add the egg and corn to the salad, from which it is necessary to drain all the liquid.
6. Season with salt and pepper to taste, season with sour cream or mayonnaise. You can also mix sour cream and mayonnaise together.
7. Let stand a little and serve.
Corn kernels give a positive bright color in the composition of the salad, and it looks very appetizing.
Another very delicious salad, which I recommend taking in my piggy bank of recipes. The amount of ingredients is calculated for a large company. And he can prepare for any holiday. I love to cook one for birthdays. It turns out not only tasty, but also beautiful. And never remains on the table, eaten all without a trace.
We will need:
Cooking:
1. Boil squids in salted water for 2 minutes or pour boiling water and soak in it. Then get, cool and cut into strips.
2. Boil shrimp in salted water. It is best to use unpeeled shrimp, and in this case, their cooking time will be 3-5 minutes, depending on their size. Cooking longer is not necessary so that they do not become hard.
When ready, let them cool and clear of the shell. We will not cut them, but we will use them in their entirety. With them, the dish will turn out to be very beautiful.
3. For cooking, you can use either the Beijing variety or the iceberg. Both have a neutral taste, and go well with all other ingredients.
Cut the salad into small strips, or in neat cubes.
4. If you cook it just for a weekday, then you can use chicken eggs, and if you cook for the holiday, I recommend taking quail eggs. They will be a wonderful decoration for the whole dish.
Peel quail eggs and cut into two halves. Chicken eggs can be cut into cubes, leaving two to three yolks also for decoration. Cut the yolks into two halves.
5. Cut the crab sticks into small pieces.
6. Chop dill, chop green onion as usual.
7. Combine all the ingredients in a bowl, leaving only the eggs and some greens for decoration. Add salt and pepper to taste. Season with mayonnaise and mix everything.
Use mayonnaise to taste as you like. You can mix mayonnaise with sour cream, both in half proportion, and in a proportion of two to one. It will be delicious and so and so.
8. Put the salad on a large flat plate in the form of a pea. Garnish with egg halves and sprinkle with herbs. Or put in portioned bowls.
That's it, our salad is ready. As you can see, it turned out to be very beautiful, and I guarantee you that it’s also delicious. Eat to your health and treat your guests!
This salad is also quite easy to prepare, and it also contains a minimum of ingredients. But do not look at it, it turns out very tasty and with such a composition of products.
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Cooking:
Squids can be boiled not only with the addition of salt. To give it a spicy taste, you can use the simplest spices.
1. Pour water into a saucepan and bring it to a boil, add bay leaf, peppercorns, salt and two to three sprigs of dill to the water. Boil for 5 minutes.
2. Put in a pair of squid carcasses in water and boil them for 2 to 3 minutes. Immediately remove and put in cold water to stop the heating process.
When the carcasses have completely cooled, cut them into strips.
3. Cut the champignons into small pieces. Then fry them in a small amount of vegetable oil until they become a little soft and ruddy. Do not overcook.
4. Onion cut into small cubes and add to the mushrooms. Fry everything together a little more until the onion is slightly browned. Salt to taste. Allow to cool.
5. Mix chopped squid and cooled mushrooms with onions. Add a little pepper for taste and the remaining chopped dill.
7. Serve with a slide on a flat plate. You can sprinkle with fresh herbs.
If you are preparing such a salad for the holiday, then you can decorate it with canned corn or green peas. Or it’s very beautiful, and festive, pomegranate seeds look on a white background, you can use them for decoration.
Another delicious and beautiful option that will decorate any holiday table will also be happy to eat on weekdays.
We will need:
To decorate:
Cooking:
1. Squid to clear of films and viscera and boil in salted water for 2 minutes. You can boil in water with the addition of bay leaf, peppercorns and dill, as was done in the previous recipe.
After the set time, remove the carcasses and place in cold water to stop the heating process.
Then dry with a paper towel, if necessary, remove the remaining film. Cut the carcass into two parts and cut into strips.
2. Cut the tomatoes into two parts, cut the stem and remove the core with a tablespoon, along with the juice and seeds. Cut the remaining pulp into cubes.
3. Hard cheese cut into not very small cubes.
4. Cut the eggs into strips, if there is an egg slicer, then you can use it.
5. Chop green onions.
6. Combine all ingredients in a bowl, mix.
7. Line a flat plate with lettuce and put the contents on them. Mix olive oil with mustard and pour on top.
8. If you are preparing a salad for the holiday, then you can use halves of olives or olives and lemon slices for decoration
9. Serve at the table, eat with pleasure.
This salad probably has Korean roots, and is made, which is called "based on". Such options are prepared using Korean carrots. The proposed recipe is prepared with fresh, but with some elements typical of Korean cuisine for the preparation of this same Korean carrot.
A distinctive feature of this recipe is that it is seasoned not with mayonnaise, but with vegetable oil.
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Cooking:
1. Peel and cut the carrots with a very thin long straw, cut as for, but much thinner. Then sprinkle it with sugar and add a pinch of salt. Mix the carrots and leave for a while, so that the carrots let the juice go, while it is slightly marinated, if this expression is acceptable for salt and sugar.
2. Meanwhile, prepare the squid. To clear them of films and entrails and to fill in with steep salted boiling water, hold in it 2 - 3 minutes, then to merge water. Leave them to cool.
As it cools down, cut into rather large strips so that the pieces feel when we eat them.
3. Onion cut into thin half rings, which are then cut again in half, should be thin quarters. Chop the garlic as finely as possible.
4. Meanwhile, the carrots had to let the juice go, so it should be squeezed and mixed with chopped squid.
5. Put all this beauty and yummy in a shallow bowl. Put the onion on top of the pot, taking it apart into separate rings. And put garlic on top of everything.
6. Sprinkle pepper over the entire surface of the salad, and sprinkle ground coriander over the onion and garlic.
7. Heat the oil in a small frying pan. Pour hot oil on top of garlic and coriander, thereby this will reveal the taste of coriander and make light roasting of garlic and parts of onion. Let the salad stand for 10 to 15 minutes.
8. Then mix everything together and serve. You can decorate with fresh herbs.
In this recipe, all products retain their original taste, they are not seasoned with mayonnaise. In addition, the taste and smell of garlic and coriander add spicy spicy flavor notes, which makes this salad just unforgettable in taste.
And the next option is prepared using Korean carrots, and also belongs to the category of delicious.
Such a salad can be prepared simply by chopping onions into it, or you can marinate the onions, and then it will become even tastier.
We will need:
Cooking:
1. Peel and boil squid in slightly salted water for 2 - 2.5 minutes. Then cool in cold water, dry with a paper towel and cut into strips.
2. Peel the onion, cut into half rings, or quarters, but thinner. Pour a little water, add sugar and vinegar. Leave to marinate for 20 minutes.
3. Peel boiled eggs and cut into small cubes.
4. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.
5. Mix in a bowl of squid, cheese, egg and squeezed onions, add carrots and corn, with which all the liquid is drained first.
And of course, it would be wrong to leave today's selection without the salad itself in Korean. And if you are already tired of reading recipes, then I suggest that you do not read this recipe, but look.
You can cook such a salad and very spicy, such as men like it very much, or less spicy. The sharpness, as you know, depends on the amount of pepper added. So add it to your liking.
The recipe is very simple, and very tasty! And if you are a lover of chamchi - spicy cabbage cooked in Korean or Korean carrots, then you will definitely like this salad.
This recipe is not so common, but if you like salads with squid, and cook them, then take this recipe for a note, it is very interesting!
We will need:
Cooking:
1. As always, clean the squid and boil in salted boiling water for 2 minutes. Then cool and cut into strips.
2. Rinse the prunes, dry and cut into slices in length, dividing each into 3 to 4 parts.
3. Adyghe cheese is better to choose unsalted, salty will not allow all other tastes to manifest. We need to cut it into thin strips.
4. Pepper is also cut into strips, after having previously removed the stalk with seeds.
5. Combine all chopped components in a bowl. Add sugar, salt to taste, about half a teaspoon.
6. Season with sour cream and mix. Let stand for 10 minutes, then mix again and put the slide on a flat plate or in a not very deep salad bowl.
Decorate as you wish and eat with pleasure!
We will need:
To decorate:
Cooking:
1. Clean squid from film and viscera, place in boiling salted water and cook for 2 minutes. Then get the carcasses and place in cold water until completely cooled.
2. Cut them into strips.
3. Place shrimps and mussels in boiling salted water and cook for 2 to 3 minutes, then turn off the heat and let the seafood lie in the water for another 5 minutes. So they will be even juicier and tastier.
4. Boil eggs, cool and peel. Then remove the yolk, it is useful to us for other dishes, and cut the protein into small cubes.
5. Cut the crab sticks as well.
6. Combine all seafood and chopped egg, add half the caviar. Salt to taste and season with mayonnaise.
7. Put on a plate, garnish with the remaining caviar, whole shrimps, halves of olives and parsley leaves on top. Serve to the table. Eat with pleasure!
The combination of products in this salad is very unusual. When I first saw this recipe, I thought that there was too much of everything in it; But since I like to experiment in the field of cooking, I prepared it somehow for the holiday.
And what can I say, they took him to Cheers! Everyone liked it, without exception. And of course, he took a place in my notebook with recipes. And today I will be happy to share it with you.
We will need:
Cooking:
1. Squid peel and boil in salted water for 2 minutes. Then briefly immerse in cold water. Then get it, dry it with a paper towel and cut into cubes.
2. Boil the tongue until cooked and peel. Cool and cut into strips. Similarly, chop the cheese.
3. Mushrooms cut into cubes, bell pepper strips.
4. Boil potatoes and eggs until tender, cool, peel and cut into small cubes.
5. Throw the peas onto a sieve so that all the liquid is in the glass.
6. Mix mustard with mayonnaise.
7. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl, add a little salt and season with mustard - mayonnaise sauce. Stir, try and salt if necessary.
8. Put in a flat dish. Garnish with left mushrooms, sprigs of greenery, or as your fantasy tells you.
A delicious and beautiful salad is ready and you can taste it. And there’s something to try, take my word for it!
And of course, in conclusion, the most important chapter, which will allow any salad to get just an unforgettable taste. After all, the taste as a whole sometimes depends on the taste of the main ingredient.
As you managed to notice, each recipe begins with the fact that first you need to clean and boil the squid. The time of cooking itself and, of course, the taste of the finished dish as a whole depend on how quickly and correctly we manage this task.
So, probably everyone knows that if you digest squid, their meat will become tough, chewing badly and tasteless. Therefore, in order not to spoil the product, you need to know a few basic rules
I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the video, which gives one of the traditional methods of cleaning and cooking squids, and below I will describe more ways that can be done.
As you can see from the video, everything is done quite simply. And now I will describe in more detail.
On the shelves of our stores mostly sold already peeled frozen squid, and we are accustomed to deal more with such a product. Non-frozen mollusks are sold with head and tentacles. Therefore, the cleaning methods of these two products are slightly different.
If you purchased whole carcasses, then they need to cut off the tentacles. After cleaning, they can also be used for cooking. Then, holding with one hand the carcass and the other with the head, you need to gently pull it. This action will make it easy to remove the head along with the insides.
Now, in both cases, we have whole carcasses with which we still have to work.
If you use frozen carcasses, then of course, they must first be thawed. This is best done at natural room temperature. Use a microwave to nothing, so as not to destroy the delicate structure of meat.
There are three cleaning methods:
With a fresh carcass, the film is removed in one motion. But with the frozen one you have to tinker a bit.
Then the carcasses should immediately be placed in cold or icy water. And you can put them in a colander under running water. At the same time, part of the film can be easily washed off with water, and another part can be easily removed with a knife, just scraping the surface.
The fact is that if you leave them to cool in a natural way, the heat treatment process will occur until the meat has completely cooled. And our task is only to remove the films, we do not need additional heating of the meat. We will deal with this a bit later.
Already peeled and washed carcasses are usually white, or slightly creamy. However, there is still a very thin film on the outer and inner surface that you just won’t see, but gently picking it up from the edge, it can easily be pulled by a rather long layer. This film also needs to be removed.
This almost invisible thin film, if not removed, can play a trick on us. It is she who does not make it possible to get tender and tasty meat at the exit. This is a secret that not everyone knows and naturally, not everyone removes it. And then they say that squids should not be cooked at all, since they have no taste.
And so before us is a whole carcass cleansed from the outside. If you use it for a salad, you can make a transverse incision and clean it also from the inside. If you use the carcass for stuffing, then you will not be able to cut it, so you will need to carefully turn it out and clean it from the inside.
Inside, we will definitely need to remove the chitin chord, it has a transparent color and is quite long and dense, but pulling it from the bottom, it is quite easily removed.
Also, sometimes inside the remains of the entrails, which also must be removed. And again, we need to remove the thin transparent film.
After all manipulations, the carcasses should be washed thoroughly again.
There are also three ways to cook squid. And now we will all consider them.
The disadvantage of this method is that it is not recommended to leave the pan during the entire process. Squids should cook for exactly a minute, and nothing more. The time is calculated from the moment when the first “bulks” appear on the water. Otherwise, the meat will turn out tough.
This is the easiest and fastest way in which the meat is tender, soft and very tasty.
In the last fill, water must be salted.
Clams should always be cooked in salted water. The structure of meat is such that then it will no longer be salted, it will not absorb the right amount of salt. And the desired taste will not get it.
The disadvantage of this method is that it is the longest in time. Three times you need to boil water, and three times soak for a minute. However, if there are a lot of carcasses, then this method can be justified. I will explain why.
Squid should be boiled in a large volume of water. Moreover, each time lower in water no more than two carcasses.
This is necessary so that the water heats up faster and the heat treatment process is minimal. If you put three or more carcasses in a pan, the heating process will be longer, and the meat will simply lie down in hot water, it will not really cook to the desired state, and it can become tough before it can cook.
Therefore, if there are a lot of squids, then with the second method it will also be a long time.
To the taste and softness of meat, squids cooked by any of these three methods do not differ in taste. Therefore, you can safely use any of them.
Sometimes they ask a question - what to do if squids turned out tough? They didn’t notice time, forgot about them and digested it ...
Never throw it away! Simmer them for at least another hour, or even two hours. The meat will again become soft, this is how a canned product is prepared. But this is only as a last resort, all the benefits and taste are just in a properly prepared product ..
From all that has been said, it can be concluded that cleaning and cooking squids is not so difficult. Having tried once, you yourself will understand this. It is enough to know only the basic techniques and rules, however, as elsewhere.
But the correct use of this useful, in all senses of the word, product will allow you to cook a lot of delicious, healthy and dietary dishes. Such, for example, as today's salads brought to your attention.
If you liked today's article, and all the more it turned out to be useful, share it with your friends. Perhaps one of them is not cooking squid salads yet. And the reason may be that they do not know delicious recipes. Or maybe because he doesn’t know how to clean them properly and cook them deliciously.
Enjoy your meal!
Squid dishes are incredibly tasty and fragrant if you can cook them properly. These seafood is very caribbean and not every cook will decide to try their hand at them, risking spoiling the dish rather than serving it perfectly cooked.
To prevent such incidents from happening in your home, we offer you the three most popular squid recipes in which you will never be disappointed. All your guests and friends will ask for recipes for creating such juicy, mouth-watering and stunningly delicious dishes.
Pickled mollusk rings are considered the easiest and quickest to create a squid snack.
It is really not difficult to cook them and you can serve such a dish just a few hours after its preparation.
You will need:
- 2 carcasses of squid;
- a few pinches of coriander and peas of black pepper;
- 1.5 tbsp 9% vinegar;
- 2-3 bay leaves;
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil;
- 1 tsp salt;
- 1 tsp granulated sugar;
- 300 g of water.
Rinse the peeled squid carcasses and cut them into rings in the bowl.
Pour in the stewpan all the necessary spices, except liquid, and pour water. Boil everything and fill the clam rings. Pour liquid spices into the container immediately. Stir everything so that the squids are wrapped in marinade and put in a cool place for 3 hours.
After this time, you can taste the appetizer - it is delicate in taste and completely saturated with spicy marinade.
This squid appetizer is adored by everyone, but most of all by beer lovers, as it is an ideal dish for serving under this foamy drink! The rings are fried in just a couple of minutes, but they fly off the plate just as quickly, so try to cook the maximum number of rings in batter at a time so that you don’t run a few more times to the kitchen.
You will need:
- 2-3 carcasses of squid;
- 1-2 tbsp ordinary water;
- 2 tbsp wheat flour;
- salt to taste;
- 150-200 ml of sunflower oil.
For snacks, it’s best to choose already peeled squid carcasses that are sold frozen. Thaw them beforehand and cut into rings approximately 0.5 cm wide.
In a bowl, mix the chicken egg with water, salt and wheat flour, whisking them in a batter.
Pour sunflower oil into the container (immediately pour everything so that the rings do not stick to the bottom) and place each ring into it, after dipping it in batter.
Fry for a couple of minutes on each side and put on a plate covered with a paper towel - all the excess fat will drain into it.
Serve the fried rings in any form - they are incredibly tasty.
You can talk a lot about this dish, but it’s much tastier to try it. You can choose your own filling according to your taste: potatoes, rice, mushrooms, eggs, etc. Boiled rice mixed with other foods is ideal for stuffing.
You will need:
- 2 carcasses of squid;
- 0.5 onions;
- 1 carrot;
- 100 g of rice;
- 100 g of crab sticks;
- parsley;
- salt to taste;
- 10 ml of vegetable oil.
Cut the crab sticks into small cubes.
Boil the rice until cooked for 20 minutes.
Grind onions and carrots on a fine grater and grind in vegetable oil for about 5 minutes.
Pour the preserved vegetables into the rice.
Then add crab sticks there.
Grind the herbs and add salt. Stir the minced meat and stuff it with peeled squid.
Pour the remaining stuffing into the mold, and place the stuffed squid on it. Bake for about 20 minutes. Serve the dish chopped on the washers. Good appetite!
The cost of any of these recipes will not be higher than 120 rubles, but the taste pleasure that they will present to you and your guests is invaluable!