Seafood is a great addition to the daily menu. Let not everyone can afford to eat them daily, but at least on holidays, dishes from them are available, perhaps, to everyone. And if, for example, not everyone likes rapans or octopuses, then squid can be prepared so that such food will be enjoyed even by those who do not particularly like the gifts of the seas and oceans.
Cooking basics
There are a huge number of ways in which you can cook squid dishes. There is more than one recipe, and these sea animals combine with so many additional ingredients, but the basis of all the dishes is still cooking the squid itself. And in order not to spoil the whole lunch, you need to properly cook the carcasses.
Semi-finished products are sold different, but to get the best result, it is better to buy raw squids. In a store, they are usually sold frozen; before further actions, the carcasses are put in salted cold water for several minutes, then they are poured with boiling water, after which the "skin" is removed.
To get tender and juicy, “non-rubber” meat, when we cook the squid carcass, we cook it very briefly. Water boiled, carcasses were laid - a maximum of 20 seconds later they are removed from boiling water. If the recipe involves stewing or frying, then this should be done no more than three minutes. There is an alternative way - a long one; in this case, squid should be stewed for at least forty minutes.
Sour cream
The most popular and uncomplicated in the preparation of squid in sour cream. They will need 800 g of carcasses, 300 grams of sour cream, 2 medium onions, vegetable oil - a couple of tablespoons, the same amount of flour, salt and pepper. The result is impressive - the dish is very juicy and delicate in taste.
There is a very interesting way how to cook squid in sour cream - there is no cooking in it. The carcasses are thawed in cold water, the skin is removed, a chord is pulled out and a ridge is cut out. Then the squids are dried with towels / napkins and cut into rings. They are quickly fried in oil. Finely chopped onions are allowed to golden color, flour is separately passivated. In the dishes where the dish will be prepared, onions are laid at the bottom, then - seafood; 2 parts of sour cream and 1 part of water are poured. Toasted flour is diluted in a small volume of water-sour cream mixture. This is done when the mixture with sour cream boils, then the flour is added and gently stirred. In this form, the dish is slowly stewed for half an hour; salt and pepper are added shortly before the end.
Since cooking squids in sour cream according to this method is quite a long time, this dish is more suitable for a festive table. It is in harmony with ordinary mashed potatoes, but it is especially delicious with rice.
Fried squid
Carcasses and onions are taken - in the same amount as in the previous recipe. Sour cream this time enough 4 tablespoons, but a couple of spoons of mayonnaise is added. In addition to salt, it is advised to add a little sugar, and flour is not needed at all. You can experiment with your favorite spices. Before you cook the squid in sour cream by the method of frying, they again have to be processed - thawed, peeled, etc. But this time they are fried together with onions over high heat so that the process goes quickly and the squids remain soft. Then all the ingredients are added to the saucepan, mixed and stewed for no longer than five minutes. This version of squid in sour cream is tastier than chilled, so it’s better to put the container in the refrigerator at least half an hour before serving.
Delicious multicooking recipe
Those who have such a useful kitchen unit, it is useful to ask how to cook squid in sour cream with it. For two carcasses you need to take a carrot and a tomato, a glass of fatter sour cream and a spoonful of vegetable oil. Spices and salt - as always, to your own liking. Marine animals must first be thawed and cut; they are traditionally cut with rings, vegetables with straws. In order for the squid in sour cream in the multicooker to turn out “what you need”, a spoon of vegetable oil is poured into the bowl, the rings and straw are stacked on top, the necessary seasonings are added - and the contents of the bowl are mixed. Put out the "Extinguishing"; time - depending on the features of your device. On average, with a power of 860 watts, 20 minutes is enough. If you cook squids in sour cream in a slow cooker, the dish turns out to be very tender, and the main component is never hard.
In salads, squid is also appropriate
We can say that these sea animals are very "multifunctional": they prepare salads and first courses, and almost all options are very successful. One of the most curious is their combination with carrots and ordinary white (can be replaced with Beijing) cabbage. Squid and cabbage is taken half a kilo, carrots - 150 grams. Carcasses are quickly boiled and cut into squares, vegetables are finely chopped, cabbage (if you took white cabbage) is wrinkled. The salad is seasoned with salt, sugar, crushed garlic and vegetable oil. Gourmets are advised to add seasoning for Korean carrots. The finished mass must be placed under the load at least for the night, and it should stand in the cold. It turns out very tasty - they are such squids. Recipes with photos are clear: it’s also very beautiful!
Squid pancakes
It is unlikely that many people know this original recipe. It again includes cabbage. Again, five hundred grams. First you will need to fry the finely chopped onion, add the chopped cabbage to it and simmer until soft. Prepared squid is turned into minced meat with a meat grinder or blender and combined with stewed cabbage. Yolks from 2 eggs are driven into the mass, everything is mixed with 5 tablespoons of flour, the whites are whipped to a foam and also added to the minced meat. Further actions - as when baking ordinary pancakes: take with a spoon, put in a pan, as if browned - turn over. Serve with sour cream; such pancakes are praised if they are also sprinkled with herbs.
We stuff squids
It is troublesome to cook such a dish, but the taste is amazing. For the filling, an egg is cooked and tomatoes (2 not too large), zucchini (150 g), half an onion and a clove of garlic are cut. Vegetables are stewed, a chopped egg is added to them. Squids are quickly boiled, dried, stuffed with the mixture, crumbled in flour and deep-fried. The sauce is made: a clove of garlic is mixed in oil, two tablespoons of sour cream and 100 g of fat cream are added, a quarter cup of broth is poured (can be replaced with a cube), chopped large tomato is placed and ground pepper is added. Boils for 1 minute. In the finished sauce you need to put the stuffed carcasses, add dill and darken for two minutes. This method, how to cook squid in sour cream, allows you to get a dish with simply amazing taste sensations.
If you are tired of traditional holiday dishes, remember the existence of seafood and surprise your loved ones with the unusual taste of new dishes.