How to cook stuffed squid

Along with the restructuring of the territory of the post-Soviet space, products arrived, which Soviet people used to read only in books: pineapples, bananas, olives, etc. Among the many seafood that appeared on the table of ordinary people, the most beloved were squids, mussels, scallops and octopuses . The hostess began to look for recipes to surprise guests with exotic dishes. One of the questions that sounded then was: "How to cook stuffed squid?"

Squid for any dish is prepared the same way. First they are thawed and washed. Then pour boiling water for a couple of seconds to curdle the skin. After scalding, this purple skin is easily removed. The carcasses are cleaned of the chord (transparent inside) and the remnants of the skin under running water.

Preparing in this way mollusks, you can start cooking any dish from them. How to cook stuffed squid, for example?

Let's first try to stuff them with rice and vegetables. To do this, we take eight squid carcasses, a couple of onions, one carrot, fifty grams of hard cheese, two tablespoons of oil (better than olive oil), one hundred grams of rice, soy sauce, a tablespoon of mayonnaise, pepper, salt. Boil the rice. Bulbs, and then carrots finely cut and passer, pour into them rice and finely chopped wings of squid, pepper and salt. Adding soy sauce and grated cheese to the filling, we mix everything.

This dish is easy to prepare. Fill the prepared mixture of carcass, lay them on a baking sheet and cover with a mesh of mayonnaise. We send the pan to the frying cupboard. Since the oven is warmed to 200 ° C, 10-14 minutes are left for complete cooking. We take out the pan from the oven and carefully remove the mollusks. Lay them on a large plate, decorate with greens. Juicy, fragrant, spicy hot dish from squid is ready.

Fingers lick, if the squid cook, stuffed with an omelette. First we take up the omelet. We make it from eggs, greens and mushrooms (for example, champignons). The prepared omelette is cooled and shredded into thin strips, mixed with cheese, pre-grated finely on a grater. Cheese is needed for better bundle of products. Prepared shellfish stuffed with a mixture of omelet and cheese and bake in the oven. Now you know how to cook stuffed squid with an omelette.

Both the first and second recipe are suitable for a snack table, and as a hot dish. If you decide to stuff the clams as a snack, you should cool them and cut them into rings.

Since many men do not imagine eating without meat, and they do not associate seafood with a substantial meal, let's prepare squid with minced meat for them. This recipe is definitely not dietary, but a high-calorie prescription - however, just like men's stomachs like. Write down how to prepare stuffed squid with pork and ground beef.

We need ten carcasses, three hundred grams of minced veal and pork, two small carrots, one large onion, two tablespoons of boiled rice, seasoning for seafood and white dry wine. Fry in the butter and mince, slightly adding it. In a separate frying pan, we spread the grated carrots and chopped onions. Mix the minced meat and carrots with onions, add rice with seasoning. We stuff the carcasses of the squid with the mixture obtained and place it in a baking dish pre-greased with vegetable oil. From above, we sprinkle all the white wine and put it in the oven, where the temperature is not lower than 200 ° C, for thirty minutes. Finished calamari cut into circles and spread, alternating with greens, on a large dish.

But before you really a dietary recipe "How to cook stuffed squid with vegetables", which will take only one hour and a ten minute time.

We need six hundred grams of shellfish, four hundred grams of white cabbage, three eggs and bulbs, a lemon, three hundred milliliters of tomato sauce, four tablespoons of vegetable oil, parsley and cilantro, seafood spices, ground black pepper and salt.

Cleaned and washed carcasses should be salted and seasoned with spices. Shredded cabbage until half cooked in a frying pan with vegetable oil.

While the cabbage is stewed, the hard-boiled eggs must be cut into cubes, and the lemon should be washed. Peeled onions are cut into half rings. Onion, eggs and cabbage are mixed, peppered and salted.

It's time to stuff the squid carcasses with cabbage stuffing. On oil, fry them for five minutes. Fold them in a saucepan and pour tomato sauce. Ten minutes they stew on high heat, and then fifteen to twenty minutes - on average. During this time we will have time to prepare the greens and lemon. And if enough parsley and cilantro to wash, then the lemon is cut halfway. One halves of juice survive, and the other is cut into mugs. Laying squids on a dish, it remains only to sprinkle them with juice and decorate with circles of lemon and greens. Bon Appetit!