Squid is a valuable protein product that is affordable, quickly and easily prepared. There are lots of interesting recipes, one of the popular options - stewing in a creamy sauce.
In it exactly seafood will not be tough, will delight you with tenderness and aroma. Smash seafood?
Squids in a creamy sauce - general principles of cooking
Squid need to be cleaned. You can throw the carcass mollusk for a few seconds in boiling water, then scrape the film with a knife. Pre-boil the carcass is not necessary, as they are further stewed in the sauce. In general, the cooking time should not exceed 5 minutes, it is enough even 2 after boiling water. But in fatty sauces, it is allowed to keep seafood a little longer, but not desirable. It is from the time of preparation that taste will depend directly. In a few minutes you can spoil everything, squid will be hard, dry, rubber.
Cream for sauce, you can use any, but without additives, vegetable substitutes are not suitable. If the fat content is high, it can be diluted with milk or water.
What else do they put in the sauce:
• onions, garlic, tomatoes;
• cheese of different types;
• flour;
• olive, butter.
All dishes with squids are seasoned with spices. Black pepper is ideal, Italian herbs give a wonderful aroma: oregano, basil, you can use ready-made Provencal mixture. There are many interesting recipes with the addition of mushrooms, various vegetables, olives, wine, they can be found below.
Usually, the mollusks are cooked on the stove, since the quenching time is very small, everything is done quickly and simply, there is simply no need to reheat the oven. It will take a good wide pan. It is desirable that there should be a tight lid to it, which will not allow steaming, boiling down the sauce.
Quick squids in cream sauce
The easiest recipe of squid in a creamy sauce. The dish is prepared very quickly, requires a minimum set of products, it turns out juicy, tender. It is suitable for any side dish of potatoes, rice. Ingredients
• 2 squid;
• onion head;
• spices and oil;
• 1 tbsp. l flour;
• 120 ml of cream (any fat content).
Cooking
1. Scald carcasses, clean, do not forget to remove the cartilage. Cut into strips or half rings. We'll see how it goes. We set aside.
2. Cut the peeled onion, put it in the pan with oil. Fry over moderate heat, it is not necessary to fry much, but the vegetable must be cooked so that it does not crunch.
3. Add flour to the onion, quickly stir. If you pour it later in the sauce, lumps may appear.
4. Fill the cream, give boil.
5. Immediately fall asleep squid, mix. Salt, season the dish with black pepper, which is ideally suited to it.
6. Stew for no more than 3 minutes. If squid will not be consumed immediately, one minute is enough. Turn off, supplement with greens.
Squids in a creamy sauce with cheese
Quite a famous recipe of squid in a creamy sauce with onions, cheese. More precisely, there are two types of cheese. If there is no Parmesan, then you can take another similar variety. Milk is also added to the sauce, but it is allowed to dilute the cream with plain water.
Ingredients
• kilogram of squid;
• a pair of onions;
• 100 g of processed cheese;
• 30 g parmesan;
• 1 spoonful of flour;
• 250 g of cream;
• 160 g whole cow milk;
• 2 spoons of butter.
Cooking
1. Immediately begin with squid: clean, cut into strips, like noodles. We set aside for seafood to be on hand.
2. Cut the onion, fry in butter for a couple of minutes.
3. Whip cream with flour, dilute with milk, add all spices, pour to onions, boil for a minute.
4. Add melted cheese to the pan. It needs to be cut or grated. We are waiting for the product to completely disperse, and the sauce will be homogeneous, without lumps.
5. It's time to add stripes of squid. Stir.
6. Stew 3-4 minutes, we look at readiness. There is no need to make a big fire.
7. Spread on a plate, it is possible on top of the side dish.
8. Top sleep with grated Parmesan cheese, add the greens on top of the plates.
Squids in cream sauce with champignons
Best for this dish to take fresh mushrooms. If the champignons were frozen, this will complicate the cooking process, evaporation of water will be required, and boiled mushrooms in advance are not so tasty.
Ingredients
• 4 squid;
• 300 g of mushrooms;
• 350 g of cream;
• 20 g butter;
• 2 spoons of vegetable oil;
• 2 onions;
• 150 ml of water or milk;
• 1.5 tablespoons of flour;
• 0.5 bunches of fresh dill.
Cooking
1. Starting with mushrooms. They need to be thoroughly washed, removed all unnecessary, cut into plates. Thickness is no more than four millimeters.
2. Melt the butter, add the vegetable oil, lay out the mushrooms, fry on high heat for 5-7 minutes so that all the moisture leaves the mushrooms.
3. Now you can add onions. Not shallow, cut into strips or half rings. Fry with mushrooms until transparent.
4. Combine flour with 3-4 tablespoons of cream, grind. Gradually introduce the remaining cream. Fill the mushrooms.
5. Simmer for about five minutes, dilute the sauce with water, give to boil.
6. Dish salted. You can add any seasoning to it.
7. Cut the peeled squids into any pieces, as you like, but you should not make too wide ribbons. Spread to the mushrooms.
8. Stir, cover. Stew under the lid for about four minutes. Sprinkle with dill.
Fried calamari in cream sauce with garlic
For this dish you do not need to add flour to the sauce, everything is cooked much easier and faster. Fatty cream is arbitrary, you can even use sour cream, but it will have to be diluted with water.
Ingredients
• 2 squid;
• 150 ml of cream;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 25 ml of oil (olive oil is better);
• dill, any seasoning flour.
Cooking
1. Prepare squid. Cut them into straws or any other shape, as you prefer. But if the pieces are larger, then the time will need to be increased by a minute.
2. Combine cream with minced garlic. Immediately need to prisal sauce. He should be ready, because you can no longer be distracted. 3. Put the pan on the fire, heat the oil. It should fire well.
4. Sprinkle squid on top with flour, about three spoons. Quickly mix it with your hands in order to powder the pieces on all sides as best as possible and shift them into the heated pan.
5. Fry over high heat for a minute, quickly mix. Mostly there will appear a ruddy crust.
6. Pour the cream sauce, stir.
7. We cover, mark two minutes, turn off.
8. Sprinkle with fresh dill, but you can use Italian herbs such as oregano for this dish.
Squids in a creamy sauce with wine and cherry tomatoes
A dish of Mediterranean cuisine that will require dry white wine. The drink will give the sauce a refined taste, delicate, unusual aroma.
Ingredients
• 400 g squid;
• 10 cherry tomatoes;
• 1 tbsp. cream (200 l);
• 0.5 glasses of white wine;
• a clove of garlic;
• oil, spices;
• one onion head.
Cooking
1. Cut the peeled mollusks into thin ringlets or simply into strips. Set aside for a while.
2. Cut the onion into small cubes.
3. A clove of garlic must be crushed, fry in a skillet with oil, then discarded. Fall asleep prepared onions. Fry until ruddy color.
4. Add white wine to onions, evaporate over medium heat.
5. Now add the cream. This recipe does not need flour. Immediately salt the sauce, pepper. We warm up almost to boiling.
6. Fall asleep prepared in advance of shellfish. Stir. Cover the pan for a minute.
7. Cut the cherry in quarters. Add to the pan, just lay out on top. It should warm up, but it is not necessary to bring tomatoes to full readiness.
8. We heat the squids for about two minutes, turn off the stove.
Squids in a creamy sauce with pasta in Italian
A hearty, flavorful and full dish of squid in a creamy sauce, which does not require any additives. You can take any pasta, even simple spaghetti will do.
Ingredients
• 250 g of dry pasta;
• 3 squid;
• 30 ml olive. oils;
• 250 ml of cream; • 15 olives;
• 5 cherry tomatoes;
• 1 spoonful of flour;
• 1/3 cup grated parmesan;
• onion.
Cooking
1. Prepare pasta according to the instructions indicated on the package. Good pasta can not be greased.
2. Remove the olives from the liquid, use the product without the stones, cut into neat circles.
3. We wash, we clear squids, we cut by strips.
4. Cut the onion. Fry in olive oil to a light blush, add cherry tomatoes, cut in half. We warm up for a moment.
5. Shake cream with wheat flour, try not to lumps. Fill onion with tomatoes, bring the sauce to a boil.
6. We put the squids cut by straws, we salt, we pepper, we refuel with Provencal herbs.
7. A minute later we fall asleep sliced olives.
8. After another 2 minutes, turn off the dish.
9. Spread pasta on the plates, on top of the squid and sauce, sprinkle with parmesan, decorate with greens.
Squids in a creamy sauce - tips and tricks
• If the sauce has become too thick, it is diluted. But you can not add cold water to squid, this product does not tolerate sudden changes in temperature, it becomes tasteless, dry.
• Taste of fresh squids differs from frozen products, it is better to choose chilled carcasses. If there is no such opportunity, then spices will be saved. Shellfish love garlic, different types of pepper, perfectly combined with Italian herbs. You can add chopped dried mushroom to the cream.
• Fry squid is better in olive oil, and vegetables are more tasty in butter, it is usually on them that pass over the onions for the cream sauce.
