All seafood is healthy, especially if cooked properly. And this is their cunning - half a step to the side, and the dish will come out completely inedible. For example, not every housewife knows how to cook squids so that they are soft, because these inhabitants of the deep sea do not appear on the daily menu too often. And in vain! Knowing the secrets of the thermal processing of these seafoods will help you prepare incredibly tasty and healthy dishes.

How to cook squid for salad so that it is soft

Before boiling squids, they must be bought and properly defrosted. In the store you can find already cleaned, light carcasses and uncleaned, which are almost half the price.

Since there is no great difficulty in cleaning, it is more profitable to buy raw squids.

Proper defrosting affects the taste of cooked seafood. As for squids, it is better to defrost them on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. If you do this at room temperature, the carcasses may weather and lose their appearance.

How many minutes to cook squid

Before cooking, squid is cleaned. So that the meat does not lose its beneficial properties, the film from the carcasses is cleaned in cold water. You can do it even faster by simply pouring thawed carcasses with boiling water. Then the top film will fall off by itself.

Peeled squid carcasses free from the remnants of the entrails and chitin chord. And then, dried with a paper towel.

What spices to add

During seafood cooking, spices are added to the water, as in chicken stock.

The most suitable spices for squid:

  • Bay leaf;
  • peppercorns;
  • onion head;
  • salt.

This is the simplest set of seasonings that can be found in the bins of each hostess. You can also add carrots and parsley root to them.

Cooking Methods

During cooking, the most important thing is to maintain its nutritional value and make it easily digestible for the body. When choosing a method of cooking squids, you need to consider that their meat is very useful, and long cooking destroys most of the valuable substances. But sometimes it is still recommended in connection with the characteristics of the recipe.

 

The substances contained in squid meat have healing properties. The use of these seafood has a beneficial effect on the heart, as they contain a lot of potassium.

Squid contains only 2% fat, no carbohydrates at all, but a lot of healthy protein, which is easily absorbed by the human body.

Learning to cook this delicacy correctly is a useful skill that will definitely not be superfluous. Especially good squids for men. Their meat tones, promotes rejuvenation and increases potency in the stronger sex.

Whole carcasses

You can cook a whole squid carcass in three ways:

  • pour boiling water several times, but not putting on fire;
  • after holding for 40 minutes in boiling water;
  • dropping for 1 - 2 minutes in boiling water.

All of these methods promise in the end a soft squid meat that melts in your mouth. How much to cook squid depends on the recipe of the dish for which they are needed.

Squid rings

Rings of squid are boiled for 1 minute in boiling water or simply poured with boiling water and covered with a lid, left for 10 minutes.

 

More often than not, squid rings are cut from whole carcasses that have already been cooked in the right way.

Frozen squid

You can try to cook frozen squid without first defrosting. To do this, boil a pot of water, add a pinch of salt, bay leaf and peppercorns to it. When it boils, they throw carcasses without defrosting before that.

After 1 minute, the fire under the pan with squid is turned off, cover it with a lid and left for 10 minutes.

Cooking technology for peeled and uncleaned squid

Squid can be cooked peeled and not peeled. Once in the boiling water, the mollusk's skin curls into flakes and falls off by itself, it does not even need to be peeled off.

Therefore, there is no special difference in how to cook squid, whether peeled or in the skin - no.

But, for example, for a Korean squid recipe, it’s better to buy raw carcasses.

Korean pickled squid - spicy appetizer

Products:

  • squid - 10 pcs.;
  • apple cider vinegar - 80 ml;
  • vegetable oil - 80 ml;
  • chili pepper - 1 pc.;
  • ground coriander - 10 g;
  • garlic - 2 cloves;
  • sugar - 2 tsp;
  • ground black pepper - 12 g;
  • salt - 2 tsp;
  • sesame seeds - 10 g;
  • soy sauce - 80 ml.

Cooking

  1. It is necessary to heat to a boil 1 liter of water.
  2. To clear the defrosted squid carcasses from the film, remove the chitin plate and the remains of the entrails. The squid film is conveniently cleaned with a paper towel.
  3. Put the prepared carcasses in boiling water and cook no more than 2 minutes after boiling over medium heat.
  4. In a stewpan, it is necessary to warm up 4 tbsp. l vegetable oil.
  5. Peel the chili seeds, cut into small cubes, add to the stewpan with soy sauce and apple cider vinegar.
  6. Peel the garlic cloves, squeeze through a press and also send to the saucepan. Put there in 2 tsp. coriander, black pepper, sugar and salt.
  7. Throw the boiled squid on a sieve, rinse in cold water and cut the carcasses into rings of 0.5 cm.
  8. Pour squid with cooked hot marinade, sprinkle with 2 tsp. sesame seeds and put in 2 cans of 300 ml each. Close the lids.
  9. Leave to marinate in the refrigerator for 3 hours.

Squids are soft, tasty. This is an ideal snack for lovers of spicy dishes.

How to cook seafood in a slow cooker, in the microwave

To cook thawed and peeled squids in the microwave, you need to put them in a microwave container, drizzle with lemon juice, salt and season with spices. Set the microwave to 1000 watts and cook for 3 minutes. But after such processing, squid meat will not be perfectly soft.

In a slow cooker, you can prepare soft squid in two ways: cook in boiling water for 1 minute or 40 minutes.

For cooking you need:

  1. Pour water into the multicooker, turn on the “Cooking” mode.
  2. When the water boils, put the squid carcasses.
  3. Set the set time, add spices, salt and cook until done.

For calamari, carcasses are cooked in a special way in a creamy sauce, so a crock-pot is suitable for this purpose even more than a pan. The cooking time for the squid in the recipe is 40 minutes, after which they will become soft, but significantly reduced in size.

Usually squid meat is cooked for no more than 2 minutes, but if they are forgotten and left on the stove a little longer, the cooking process can be continued, increasing the time to 40 - 50 minutes.

Only after this time will the mollusk meat become soft again. And besides meat, you will get a fragrant broth.

Sautéed squids with cream sauce

Products:

  • squid - 5 pcs.;
  • onion - 1 pc.;
  • butter - 50 g;
  • flour - 50 g;
  • milk - 100 ml;
  • Dutch cheese - 100 g;
  • water - 500 ml;
  • bay leaf - 4 pcs.;
  • black pepper peas - 7 pcs.;
  • salt - 5 g.

Cooking:

  1. Thawed squids, peeled of the film and the remains of the viscera, need to be cut into strips of 0.5 cm.
  2. Peel and chop the middle onion in half rings.
  3. Fold onions and squids in a stewpan, pour 2 cups of hot water. Put black pepper, peas, 2 bay leaves and add 0.5 tsp. salt.
  4. Bring squids to a boil and reduce heat. Cook for 40 minutes.
  5. Discard seafood on a sieve, pour the broth into a pan.
  6. To prepare the bechamel sauce, put butter in a stewpan, add flour to it and fry in the stewpan for 2 or 3 minutes to leave the specific flour smell.
  7. Pour 100 ml of broth with squid into flour and butter, add 100 ml of milk and mix with a whisk. The sauce should be viscous, without lumps.
  8. Add sauce to boiled squid and mix.
  9. Four small baking dishes to fill with squid in a flavoring fill. Sprinkle them with grated hard cheese on top to make a golden crust after baking.
  10. Turn on the oven 200 degrees and bake seafood for 5 minutes.

Sauté squid under a crispy cheese crust is ready! This wonderful, delicate dish can be eaten hot and cold, it has an excellent taste.

How to cook squid depends on the requirements of the recipe. In semi-moist seafood, which is simply poured with boiling water for 10 minutes, more nutrients are stored. But if you cook squids for more than half an hour, they will also turn out to be soft and tasty.

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