Diversify your diet by adding new interesting dishes to the menu, for example, a salad with squids. Squid - a tasty product, healthy, besides dietary.
They prepare quickly, and cleaned with the right approach for long. And due to the fact that squid have a neutral taste of seafood, they are perfectly combined with many other products, so you can safely experiment, never losing.
Salad with squid: a step-by-step recipe - general principles
For the preparation of salad with squids mainly use fresh or canned product. You can add a savory flavor and aroma to the snack and purchase smoked squids.
Everything is simple with canned shellfish: I opened the can, took out the meat, cut it into the desired pieces. With a fresh product you have to tinker a bit. So, first squids are cleaned. And for this, it is not necessary to defrost the mollusks, just put them in a bowl of the right size, pour boiling water on it, turn it over, pour it on the other side. Put the bowl in the sink, turn on the cold water: the skin will come off by itself, it will be enough just to rub the surface of the squid with your fingers. After removing the inner long transparent rod - chord and remove, if necessary, the remnants of the viscera.
Prepared squids carcass spread in boiling salted water, boiled for 2-3 minutes, no more. Some people like to put peas, laurel leaves, parsley root and celery in boiling water besides salt. Here is a matter of taste.
The finished product is removed with a slotted spoon or thrown back in a colander, cooled. After it is cut in the manner indicated in the recipe: ringlets, half rings, straws, dice, etc. Do not overdo the cooked squid in the air longer than the cooling time, otherwise the meat will begin to dry and become harsh, like rubber. Squids can be mixed with boiled or raw chopped vegetables, eggs, herbs, cheese, seafood, cereals, mushrooms and other products. Salad is mostly seasoned with mayonnaise. From spices put only salt and pepper.
Salad with squid: a step by step recipe
Ingredients:
• three squid carcasses;
• egg - two pieces;
• 30 grams of any mayonnaise;
• parsley - three twigs;
• salt - ten grams.
In addition to all the ingredients, take about half a liter of purified water for cooking squid. And make some fresh parsley leaves to decorate the salad.
Preparation:
1. First, prepare all the ingredients for cooking salad with squid: wash eggs with warm water, put in a small metal saucepan, put on high heat, boil, reduce heat and boil for five minutes. After cooking, put them in another bowl with cold water and cool. Peel the boiled eggs. Rinse fresh squids with water, remove the skin from them, remove the insides and rub with salt.
2. In a deep saucepan, pour one and a half liters of purified water through the filter, add a pinch of salt, wait for boiling. Put squid in boiling water, boil again, remove the froth and cook for two or three minutes.
3. Remove the boiled squid from the water, cool, drain the water, it will no longer be useful, cut the squid into thin strips.
4. Boiled hard-boiled and peeled eggs cut into small cube with a knife.
5. Combine sliced squid with crushed eggs, add salt, season with mayonnaise, mix well.
6. Rinse the fresh parsley, chop with a knife, add to the salad, mix well again.
7. Put the prepared salad with squid in a deep portion salad bowl, garnish with parsley leaves.
Warm salad with canned squid and rice cereal: a step by step recipe
Ingredients:
• natural canned squid - one small jar; • onions - one head;
• one small carrot;
• two chicken eggs;
• Mistral Yantar rice groats or regular steamed - three large spoons;
• mayonnaise - 50 grams.
You will also need salt and a little ground black pepper, greens for decoration - ideally fresh parsley.
Preparation:
1. Open a jar of canned squid, drain the existing liquid, remove the squid, grind them with a knife.
2. Prepare the vegetables: wash the carrot under running water, put it right in the peel in a small saucepan with cold salted water, put on high heat, wait for the appearance of bubbling bubbles, reduce the gas, cook until ready. Cool the boiled carrot, peel and cut into small cubes. The peel will easily come off if you put another hot carrot in cold water.
3. Wash the eggs with warm water, put in a small saucepan with clean water (so that the eggs do not crack during cooking, add a little salt into the water), first cook over high heat until boiling, then reduce and cook for another five minutes. After this time, place the eggs in a deep cup with cold water to cool. Peel the cooled eggs, chop finely.
4. Free onions from the husk, rinse with water, cut into small pieces. If you do not want onions in a salad bitter, then pour it with boiling water for a few minutes, then drain the water, squeeze the onion.
5. Wash the rice cereal with running water, changing the water until it is clear, pour it with clean water, add some salt and cook on low heat until softened. If you use steamed rice, you can not rinse it. Rice cooked rice in a colander with cold water so that it becomes crumbly and does not stick together.
6. In a deep bowl, mix all the prepared ingredients, add some salt and pepper, if desired.
7. Add mayonnaise to the salad, stir well.
8. Before serving, place the salad in a deep salad bowl, garnish with parsley leaves.
Salad with squid: a step-by-step recipe with crab sticks and cheese
Ingredients:
• two medium fresh squid;
• three chicken eggs;
• one small pack of crab sticks;
• a small piece of Dutch or Russian cheese;
• green onion stalks - a bouquet floor;
• one clove of garlic;
• ten grams of black pepper and salt;
• Dill and parsley - three stalks each.
This recipe does not indicate the exact amount of mayonnaise, because each person has different preferences: some like to have a lot of it, others to have a little, so it's better to put mayonnaise in this salad according to your desire and taste. To decorate this salad you can take boiled shrimps.
Preparation:
1. As in the first recipe, first prepare the squids: gut them, remove all the insides, remove the skin, rinse thoroughly with water. Peeled and washed squids put in a small metal container with clean water, add a little salt into the water, put the container on the stove, bring to a boil. After boiling water, remove the froth and cook over low heat until softened for two minutes. Remove the cooked squid from the hot water and put it in a cup with cold water, soak it in a few minutes.
2. Cut the cooled squid into thin strips.
3. Wash chicken eggs with warm water, put in a saucepan with salted water, cook first on high heat, and after boiling on low. When the eggs are cooked, pour off the hot water, cover them with cold water so that they cool down.
4. Peel the cooled eggs and cut into small cubes with a knife.
5. Chop a piece of Dutch or Russian cheese with a knife or grate it.
6. Remove the crab sticks from the package, cut them into small, random pieces with a knife.
7. Rinse all greens, chop with a knife. Garlic free from the husk and squeeze through the garlic. Pour all the greens in a small cup, add garlic, a small amount of mayonnaise, mix thoroughly. If you do not have fresh greens and mayonnaise, you can buy ready-made garlic sauce. 8. Put all prepared ingredients in a deep cup, season with cooked garlic sauce, add black pepper, salt and mix well.
9. Take a small, not too high dish round shape, tamp it tightly salad. Turn over the dish with salad onto a large flat plate, carefully remove the deep salad bowl. When you remove the bowl, you should have an even round cone. It is advisable not to put too much into the salad with squids in this recipe for mayonnaise, otherwise the salad will be liquid and this may not produce the desired round shape of the salad.
10. Put three or four shrimps in a small saucepan, cover with water, add salt, put on the stove and cook on moderate heat. Readiness can be recognized by changing the color of shrimp. Cool the boiled shrimps and place them on the plate next to the side of the salad. Also, put two or three stalks of fresh dill and parsley.
Step-by-step recipe for salad with squid - tricks and tips
• Squids for salad and you can not cook. Pour boiled water over peeled mollusks, soak for a minute, drain the water and fill with new boiling water. Repeat the procedure 3-4 times.
• If you add boiled vegetables to a salad with squid, in order to preserve the vitamins, it is better to boil or bake them raw, so they will retain their taste and healthy properties.
• Mayonnaise for salad can be made independently from eggs, vegetable oil, mustard.
• Do not put too much greens in the finished salad, it will kill the taste of the remaining ingredients and the seafood itself.
