Those who prefer seafood to meat make the right choice. After all, they contain less calories than in beef and pork, almost no fat, but in terms of protein content they are not inferior to chicken breasts. Especially for lovers of seafood today, we will tell you how to cook a classic
squid salad. It is quite popular in Russia, very tasty and will not only be a great addition to lunch or dinner, but also a great snack on the festive table. We offer you the most traditional recipe, and options for how to diversify it.
Cooking a classic squid salad
To make your dish really tasty, you need to properly boil seafood. First clean the squids - remove the film from them (this can easily be done by scalding the carcasses with boiling water), remove the transparent chitinous bones, cut off the “wings” of the fins. Boil water with spices - salt and bay leaf, and now lower the carcasses one by one, you do not need to boil them, just hold it in boiling water for 10 seconds - just count to 10. Take out, wait until the water boils again, and put the next squid . Only in this case, the seafood will turn out soft and juicy. Do not pay attention to the recommendations, which say that you need to cook carcasses from 3 to 10 minutes - so they will turn out to be tough, rubber to the taste. Once the main ingredient is ready, you can start making a classic squid salad. For him you will need:
- 300 gr seafood;
- 4 hard -boiled eggs ;
- onion medium size;
- mayonnaise for dressing salad.
Squid carcasses must first be boiled, use the method above. Cut the pulp into slices, eggs into cubes, and onion into thin rings. Before putting in the salad, the vegetable can be scalded with boiling water - so bitterness will come out of it. After that, mix the ingredients in a bowl, season with mayonnaise, or its lower-calorie counterpart - sour cream, salt and sprinkle with black pepper from the heart. The classic squid salad is ready. It will be especially tasty if you let it stand for at least half an hour. This excellent protein dish will successfully complement your lunch or dinner, and at the festive table it will enjoy well-deserved popularity.
Salad with squid: a classic recipe as a base for experiments
Of course, no one has ever conducted research on which dish with which particular ingredients is considered traditional in our case. Therefore, on this topic, you can experiment. For example, canned green peas or fresh vegetables, Chinese cabbage, tomato or bell pepper can be added to the salad. And you can make the king’s choice altogether - put in a bowl of squid and eggs 50 g of red caviar. And the sauce can be diluted with tomato paste - for 2 parts of mayonnaise, take 1 part of the concentrate, it will also be delicious if you add pickled cucumber to the dressing . As you can see, a classic squid salad can be very different, choose additional components that you like best.