Squids are cheaper than other seafood. In addition to accessibility, they are also extremely tasty. Their meat resembles lobster. Well, there is no need to talk about the benefits of seafood. They are rich in iodine, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium. Squids - a real pantry of vitamins B, C and PP. They contain enzymes that stimulate appetite and help the stomach digest food. From these sea mollusks they make bathrobes, salads, prepare hot dishes, for example, the famous "Kalamari a la Romana". If you don’t know how to cook squid for salad and other dishes, you can get meat that is hard as a rubber boot. How to be?
Properly prepared squid fillet is very soft and tasty. First you need to peel it. This can be done in two ways. The first is to simply defrost seafood, press the carcass with one hand to the cutting board, and the second, pulling the skin with your fingernail, pull it and pull it away. Theoretically, it should slide like a stocking. But in practice it is torn and removed by rags. This is due to improper storage of squid: it is likely that the pack was thawed, and then put back in ice. Therefore, the second cleaning method is used. It consists in the fact that seafood is poured with boiling water and kept there for 5-8 minutes. The peel and chitin plates then separate very easily. How to cook squid for salad? Consider that, pouring boiled water over the carcass, you have already prepared it. It remains only to peel, cut, sprinkle the fillet with lemon juice and add other ingredients.
If you have cleaned the carcasses, then you have a wide choice of ways
to cook squids for salad. Option number 1 is the easiest. Add salt, peas and bay leaf to the water, boil. Once the liquid begins to gurgle, lower the carcass into the pan. Wait for boiling again, turn off the heat and remove them so that they do not add to the residual heat.
Many novice cooks ask how many minutes to cook squid? Dear readers, in this process, time is measured in seconds! Boil water with salt and aromatic spices. Put the squid carcass in a slotted spoon or clamp with two forks. Dip in boiling water, count to ten, remove. Everything, the meat is ready. Or here's another way. Count to five, take out, wait a bit, again immerse for 5 seconds. To be safe from hardening of meat during heat treatment, you can add lemon juice or vinegar to boiling water.
Another way to cook squid for salad is to blanch seafood. The carcasses are dipped in a saucepan with boiling water and covered with a lid for ten minutes. There is another extravagant recipe. The cleaned carcass is poured with cold water with lemon juice, salt and seasonings. Dishes should be either glass or enameled. We immerse it in a wider bowl or pan, standing on the fire. In such a water bath, seafood is cooked for an hour.
We add only that it is best to cook squids whole. And only then they can be cut into pieces or rings. As you can see, in deciding how much to cook squid fillet, there are several options. But what if you still missed the moment and the meat became tough? Do not be discouraged, but ... cook on. After half an hour, it will regain its softness again, although it will lose almost half its weight.