Stuffed squid ... How much emotion this truly delicious dish evokes! Many housewives, however, prefer to order it in restaurants or eat away. It seems to them that stuffed squids are long and difficult to cook. This is completely not the case, at least in comparison with many other dishes.
Among the abundance of meat, carbohydrate foods and vegetables that we used to see on the table, seafood can stand out not only for its exquisite taste, but also for its great benefit to the body. Some women are wary of squid and are afraid to cook them. In fact, this product has a wonderful taste, it is recognized as nutritious and valuable for health. Iron, vitamins, manganese, iodine, calcium, potassium, phosphorus - this is not the whole list of useful substances contained in squids. At the same time, fat is completely absent in them, that is, this product can easily be considered dietary.
You can cook anything you like from such seafood. Most often they become ingredients for various salads. But try to look at them in a new way, cook stuffed squids. Before sharing some good recipes, it is worth giving useful recommendations on the selection and handling of these seafood.
It is preferable to buy small carcasses, their meat will be sweeter. Before cooking, they should be cleaned. Often squids are sold frozen. It doesn’t matter, just pour boiling water over them well. After that, you can easily remove the peel from the squid. To cook them, carcasses must be lowered into already boiling water, then cover the pan with a lid and turn off the gas. After about 10 minutes, you can safely take the squid out of the water. They are ready for further use.
If you've never cooked stuffed squids , recipes are easy to find in any cookbook. And with a couple you can find right in this article. So, it's time to start.
To cook stuffed squids, you will need three carcasses, half a pack of crab sticks, half a can of canned corn, half a glass of rice, two onions, two eggs and salt. First of all, you need to build a filling. To do this, finely chop and fry the onion until golden brown. Next, crab sticks, previously diced, should be added to it. Corn goes there too. All this must be fried for five minutes, and then transferred to a deep bowl. Rice is boiled separately and added to the frying. The filling must be salted and finally seasoned with eggs. Boiled squid must be stuffed with filling, and sew the edges of each carcass with thread. Then they are put in boiling water for five minutes. After the squids are removed from the pan, they must cool down and you can already pull the threads. Finished carcasses must be cut like a sausage.
Stuffed shrimp squid will also please your family. Especially if you are a fan of eating seafood. You will need two large carcasses of squid, 12 pieces of tiger shrimps, 100 grams - cocktail, 50 grams of cheese, onion, carrots, two cloves of garlic, salt, pepper, basil greens. The filling is prepared as follows: carrots and onions (finely chopped) are fried in a pan, garlic, cocktail shrimps, pepper, salt are added there. The cooled filling should be mixed with grated cheese. Raw squid carcasses, thoroughly washed and peeled, stuffed loosely, and then fry for five minutes in olive oil. Tiger prawns should be put in a pan with carcasses stuffed with filling. Fry it all together for another three minutes and the dish is ready.
Stuffed squid is a delicious dish for real gourmets. Try it and you ...