Seafood has a low calorie content, contains a lot of protein, phosphorus and other essential elements. In the diet they are indispensable. One of the most affordable varieties of seafood delicacies is squid. If you cannot cook it, you can get pieces resembling rubber instead of a delicious dish, but with proper preparation, these clams will surprise you with a delicate refined taste. Squids in cream sauce work out even for inexperienced cooks. It is only necessary to pick up a recipe and learn a few technological subtleties.
Cooking Features
At first glance, the process of cooking squid may seem complicated. But experience comes quickly. Over time, cooking seafood will not take much time and effort. To master the technology of cooking squid in sour cream sauce will help tips of experienced chefs:
- Product quality plays an important role. The main is squid. If it has been thawed and frozen again, its structure will be broken, it will become hard during preparation. Damage to the carcasses, a large layer of ice covering them, snow and water in a package with seafood suggests that the product was defrosted. From such a purchase is better to refuse.
- Some shoppers are confused by the purple, pink or yellowish color of the squid skin. According to its shade, the degree of freshness of the product cannot be determined, the color can be any - it depends only on the squid variety. But his meat should be white, not painted in other colors.
- Chishchenny squid carcasses look attractive on the shelves, but connoisseurs bypass them, giving preference to undivided mollusks. Peeled more often they sell the meat of the giant Peruvian squid, and the uncleaned sell the Commander and Patagonian squids. The first are harsh, the meat of the latter is tender and soft, quickly cooked.
- If you know how to cut squid properly, it will take only 5-10 minutes. First of all, you need to separate the head with the tentacles, pulling it and removing the insides with it. Then the carcass must be turned out to remove the chord (this can be done without turning the clam up). After that, the carcass of the squid is placed for a minute in boiling water, then transferred to a container of cold water - from these procedures, the film on the surface is rolled up and easily washed off with running water.
- Do not exceed the recipe preparation time recommended by the recipe, especially if you boil it. Otherwise, his meat will become tough as rubber. If during the extinguishing of the mollusk it became necessary to add water, use hot, so that the protein does not change its structure due to the temperature difference.
Squid in sour cream sauce can be cooked in a pan, in a saucepan, multi-cooker or oven. According to some recipes, it is stewed, cut into pieces, while others are baked in stuffed form with whole carcasses. Technology of preparation depends on the specific recipe, but the above rules remain unchanged.
Squids in cream sauce with onions in a pan
Composition:
- squid - 0, 7 kg;
- onions - 150 g;
- sour cream - 0, 2 l;
- vegetable oil - 80 ml;
- fresh dill - 100 g;
- allspice - 3 pcs .;
- bay leaf - 2 pcs .;
- salt - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Thaw the carcass of the squid, avoiding temperature drops.
- Gut and clean if necessary. Cleaned carcasses enough to rinse.
- Cut the squid into rings or stripes about half a centimeter thick.
- Peel onions, cut into half rings or whole rings (depending on the size of the onions).
- Heat oil in a pan, put onions in it. Fry until golden brown.
- Put pieces of clam onion and fry, stirring, for a minute.
- Mix finely chopped dill with sour cream and salt.
- Fill squid with cream sauce.
- Add allspice and bay leaf.
- Stew squid in sour cream for 3-4 minutes. The intensity of the flame should be small, the pan should be covered with a lid.
After turning off the fire, it is recommended to leave the frying pan with squid on the stove for another 10-15 minutes so that it is better soaked in the taste and aroma of the sauce. Before serving, pour mollusks with sour cream, in which they were stewed. To this dish will not hurt the side dish. Fit rice, pasta, steamed vegetables.
By the same recipe, you can cook squids in a slow cooker. Frying products should be in the “Frying” or “Baking” mode, then cook using the “Quenching” program, then leave for a quarter of an hour in the heating mode.
Squids in Sour Cream with Garlic
Composition:
- squid - 0, 5 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- dill - 50 g;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- salt, black pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- sour cream - 0, 2 l.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the prepared squid carcass into small strips.
- Cut onions into small cubes.
- Crush garlic with a press, mix with sour cream.
- In vegetable oil fry until golden onions.
- Lay out the squids. Salt and pepper them. Fry a minute or a half.
- Fill with sour cream sauce, stew for 4 minutes. Remove from heat.
- Add the dill, after chopping it finely, stir, leave under the lid for 10 minutes.
This dish resembles a seafood sauce in consistency. Good for pasta.
Squids in cream sauce, baked in the oven with slices
Composition:
- squid - 0, 5 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- flour - 10 g;
- sour cream - 0, 2 l;
- hard cheese - 50 g;
- salt, pepper, dried dill - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Onion, peeled, cut into thin rings.
- Gut carcasses of squid, extract chords from them. Rinse with boiling water and rinse with cold water. Cut not too narrow rings.
- Heat the oil and throw the onion in it. Fry until golden brown.
- Sprinkle the onion with flour, stir.
- Salt and season to taste, pour with sour cream. Stir and simmer for 3-4 minutes until the sauce thickens.
- Place squid rings in creamy sauce, stew them for 2-3 minutes.
- Put everything in a baking dish.
- Finely rub the cheese, sprinkle it on the dish.
- Place the form in an oven preheated to 160-180 degrees. Bake squid for 15 minutes.
Despite the ease of preparation and availability of ingredients, the dish looks elegant and festive. They can not only feed the households, but also treat friends.
Squids stuffed with cheese, baked in sour cream in the oven
Composition:
- carcasses of squid - 1 kg;
- cheese - 150 g;
- vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- onions - 0, 2 kg;
- sour cream - 100 ml;
- salt, seasonings - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Prepare the squid carcasses by peeling them from chords and films. Cut off the tails, leaving only the carcass for stuffing.
- Cut the cut pieces into small squares.
- Coarsely grated cheese.
- Onion, freeing from the husk, cut into small cubes.
- Pour half of the oil into the pan and heat it.
- Put the onion pieces in the butter and fry them on low heat until they are soft and translucent.
- Add squid pieces and a couple of tablespoons of sour cream. Stew for a couple of minutes.
- Put onion with calamari from a frying pan, add salt, season and mix with grated cheese.
- Fill the carcasses of squids with the mixture. There should not be too much stuffing, otherwise squid may burst during cooking. Fasten the ends of the carcasses with wooden toothpicks so that the minced meat does not fall out during the subsequent cooking.
- Add some pepper and salt to sour cream, stir.
- Lubricate the form with the remaining oil, put the squid carcasses into it.
- Brush them with sour cream sauce.
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Put in it a form with squid, bake for 10-15 minutes, not longer.
Squids stuffed with cheese and baked with sour cream sauce will be a good snack for wine or beer. However, this does not mean that they can not be served on the family table on a weekday. Instead of cheese or as a supplement to it, you can add fried minced mushrooms, boiled egg, cooked until cooked rice. You can add a little tomato paste to sour cream.
Squids in cream sauce with vegetables
Composition:
- squid - 1 kg;
- sour cream - 0.5 l;
- carrots - 0, 3 kg;
- onions - 0, 2 kg;
- Bulgarian pepper - 0, 25 kg;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave;
- salt, seasonings - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Clean squid, cut it into large strips.
- Onion, peeled, cut into small pieces.
- Pepper wash, cut the stem, remove the seeds.
- Cut pepper into quarters of rings or straws.
- Peel the carrots, chop them on a grater for Korean salads or on a regular one with large holes.
- Pour oil into a deep pan or a small saucepan.
- Put on fire.
- Place slices of garlic cut in half in butter. After a couple of minutes, remove them, put onions.
- Fry the onion for 2-3 minutes, then enter the carrot. Continue to fry vegetables, stirring for 5 minutes.
- Add squid. Stir.
- After a minute, place the pepper, continue cooking for another 2-3 minutes.
- Add seasonings, pour sour cream, mix.
- Simmer the squids with vegetables under the lid for another 5 minutes after the sauce boils.
Before serving, the dish should be allowed to infuse for at least 10 minutes. You can serve it with a side dish or separately: the presence of a large number of vegetables makes this snack quite satisfying.
Squids in sour cream sauce are tender and soft. This tasty and healthy dish is suitable for both family dinner and holiday table.
