Squids: cooking recipes

Today, dishes using squid meat are very popular, because it has a great taste and contains many proteins, vitamins, microelements and amino acids, so it is in no way inferior to meat of animals and fish. Squid, the recipes of which will be considered in this article, boil, canned, fry or stew, while eating their tentacles and mantle.

In various stores you can find on sale frozen squid, which must be cleaned before cooking. To do this, they need to be filled with boiling water and only then remove the dark skin and colorless film. The purified product is placed strictly in boiling salted water and cooked for no more than three minutes, otherwise the meat will be stiff and lose its taste. It is best to use a large pan for this purpose, so that the squid, whose recipes are given below, turned out to be juicy enough. The finished product is usually cut into thin strips three centimeters long. It should be noted that the water for cooking takes two liters for every two squid, and salt - two spoons.

Consider how to cook squid (recipes lean).

1. Squid stuffed.

Ingredients: half a kilogram of squid, fifty grams of rice, two onions, a bunch of green onions, seventy grams of flour, fifty grams of butter, salt and spices.

Peeled squid should be salted, roll in flour and fry in oil. In cooked to semi-prepared rice add the chopped and fried onion, salt and spices and fill with this stuffing of squid, which are then roasted on a baking sheet in a well-heated oven. Finished dish sprinkled with finely chopped green onions.

2. Marinated squid.

Ingredients: half a kilo of squids, lemon, half a spoonful of chili pepper, fifty grams of butter, garlic cloves, dill and parsley, salt.

From the lemon squeeze the juice and rub it into the zest by adding finely chopped pepper, salt, garlic and a little olive. Roasted squid pour marinade, add greens. All mixed and left for twenty minutes, after which the dish will be completely cooked.

3. Squid (recipes from Beijing).

Ingredients: three hundred grams of squid, half a liter of vegetable oil, ten grams of ginger, a garlic head, one onion, one spoonful of salt, starch and cognac, fifty grams of broth and twenty grams of fresh cucumbers.

Purified squids are cut into two strips, in which a few centimeters are made deep cuts. After that, make another incision in such a way that the pieces of rectangular shape have turned out, which must be dipped into boiling salted water and taken out when they are wrapped and fried in oil.

Meanwhile, in the hot oil add seasoning, prepared from finely chopped onions, garlic, ginger, cognac, broth, sliced cucumber, starch and salt, bring everything to a boil, put down squid slices and immediately take them out.

2. Gulf squid (recipes of festive dishes).

Ingredients: one glass of squid, cut into strips, two glasses of jelly, carrots, ten olives, half a lemon, ten branches of greenery.

In prepared forms, you need to put a little jelly, sliced olives, one slice of lemon, a few branches of greens. On top of all this, squids are put together, connected with carrot slices, all this is filled with jelly and put in a cool place for hardening. Before serving, the molds are lowered into hot water and immediately turned over, in order to put the product on the dish.

Squids are not only a dietary product with high taste qualities, but also have a positive effect on the health and development of the human body, because they contain fatty acids - oen is a valuable nutrient.