Along with the restructuring in the territory of the post-Soviet space, there came products that Soviet people used to read only in books: pineapples, bananas, olives, etc. Of the many seafood that appeared on the table of ordinary people, squid, mussels, scallops, and octopuses turned out to be the most favorite. . Mistresses began to search for recipes in order to surprise guests with exotic dishes. One of the questions that sounded then was: "How to cook stuffed squids?"
Squids for any dish are prepared the same way. First they are thawed and washed. Then pour boiling water for a couple of seconds to curl 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.
Having prepared the mollusks in this way, you can start cooking any dish from them. How to cook stuffed squids, for example?
Let's try stuffing them with rice and vegetables first. To do this, take eight carcasses of squid, a couple of onions, one carrot, fifty grams of hard cheese, two tablespoons of butter (preferably olive), one hundred grams of rice, soy sauce, a tablespoon of mayonnaise, pepper, salt. Boil rice. Onions and then carrots finely chop and passer, pour rice and thinly sliced squid wings to them, pepper and salt. After adding soy sauce and grated cheese to the filling, mix everything.
This dish is easy to cook. We fill the carcasses with the prepared mixture, put them on a baking sheet and cover with a mayonnaise net. We send the pan to the oven. Since the oven is preheated to 200º, 10-14 minutes are left for a complete readiness of food. We take out a baking sheet from the oven and carefully remove the clams. Having laid them on a large plate, decorate with greens. Juicy, aromatic, piquant hot squid dish is ready.
You will lick your fingers if you cook a squid stuffed with scrambled eggs. First take up the omelet. We make it from eggs, herbs and mushrooms (for example, champignons). Cool the finished omelet and shred into thin strips, mix with cheese, finely grated in advance. Cheese is needed for a better bunch of products. We stuff the prepared clams with a mixture of omelet and cheese and bake in the oven. Now you know how to cook stuffed squid with scrambled eggs.
Both the first and second recipes are suitable for both a snack table and as a hot dish. If you decide to serve stuffed clams as an appetizer, you should cool them and cut into rings.
Since many men cannot imagine eating without meat, and their seafood is not associated with a hearty meal, let's cook squid with minced meat for them. This recipe is definitely not dietary, but high-calorie - however, it’s exactly the same as men's stomachs love. Write down how to cook stuffed squid with pork and ground beef.
We need ten carcasses of mollusks, 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 forcemeat in butter, slightly adding salt. In a separate pan we pass the grated carrots and chopped onions. We mix forcemeat and carrots with onions, add rice with seasoning. We start the squid carcasses with the resulting mixture and put in a baking dish, pre-lubricated with vegetable oil. Sprinkle everything from above with white wine and put in the oven, where the temperature is not lower than 200º, for thirty minutes. Finished squids cut into circles and spread, alternating with herbs, on a large dish.
And here is a really dietary recipe “How to cook stuffed squids with vegetables”, which will take only one hour and ten minutes.
We will need six hundred grams of shellfish, four hundred grams of white cabbage, three eggs and onions, a lemon, three hundred milliliters of tomato sauce, four tablespoons of vegetable oil, parsley and cilantro, seafood spices, ground black pepper and salt.
The cleaned and washed carcasses should be salted and seasoned with spices. Grind shredded cabbage until half cooked in a pan with the addition of vegetable oil.
While the cabbage is being stewed, hard-boiled chicken eggs must be cut into cubes, and the lemon washed. Peeled onions are cut into half rings. Onions, eggs and cabbage mix, pepper and salt.
It's time to stuff squid carcasses with minced cabbage. Fry them in oil for five minutes. We put them in a saucepan and pour in tomato sauce. For ten minutes they are stewed over high heat, and then fifteen to twenty minutes on average. During this time, we will have time to prepare greens and lemon. And if parsley and cilantro are enough to wash, then the lemon is cut in half. Juice survives from one half, and the other is cut into circles. Having laid out the squids on a dish, it remains only to sprinkle them with juice and garnish with lemon slices and herbs. Enjoy your meal!