The dishes made from squid sea mollusk are quite popular today. And this is not surprising, because this process is simple.
But most importantly, squid meat contains many useful elements. It has absolutely no cholesterol. On the contrary, the substances that the mollusk contains in itself contribute to the stabilization of its level in the blood.
The meat of the inhabitant of the sea is pleasant and tender. It is much healthier than beef and poultry.
So why not use such huge advantages and cook squid dishes? Moreover, in addition to excellent food, we get a bonus: excellent and effective prevention of heart diseases.
Fried squid with onions - general principles of preparation
It is important to prepare the squid correctly. Then any dish from this mollusk will be soft and juicy. For squids, it is important that after cooking they do not resemble a piece of rubber.
It is better to use squid chilled, but frozen will do.
Before cooking, the mollusks must be completely thawed at room temperature.
If the whole carcass - first we take out the insides and chitin plate, similar to a flat piece of spaghetti.
When a gutted carcass is available, the work is reduced.
The squid is covered with a film that needs to be removed. It is easy to clean in fresh mollusks. If we cook previously frozen carcass, then we do this. Pour the squid with boiling water or lower it into the pan for ten seconds. Then the carcass must be transferred to cold water. The peel can be easily removed.
As a rule, squids are cut into rings or half rings.
They fry quickly. On a large fire rings are cooked for three or four minutes. When using onions and other vegetables, you will need the same amount of time.
Garlic, herbs, tomatoes, carrots are added to the dish. If you start cooking fried squid with onions in sour cream and add homemade mayonnaise, you get a very unusual dish.
The dish is fried in vegetable oil, you can add cream.
Recipe 1. Squid fried with onions "Elementary!"
The main feature of the recipe is the use of butter for frying. If you apply sunflower - the result will be worse.
Ingredients:
• 200 gr. squid;
• onion;
• 70 gr. butter butter;
• sea salt.
Cooking method:
Cut the squid into rings.
Melt the butter in a frying pan.
Cut the onion in half rings, divide into feathers and fry until semi-soft.
We load the squid rings, salt and fry them for about five minutes, not forgetting to constantly stir the contents of the pan.
Put the finished dish on your favorite plate and enjoy fried squid with onions.
Recipe 2. Squid fried with onions in sour cream
An appetizing and fragrant dish is prepared very quickly and simply. Decorate the taste of fried calamari with onions in sour cream young boiled potatoes.
Ingredients:
• 0.3 kg squid;
• three garlic cloves;
• leek;
• 0.15 kg of sour cream;
• five branches of cilantro and parsley;
• salt and freshly ground pepper;
• tsp Italian herbs;
• 0.07 kg butter;
• vegetable oil;
• Art. l flour.
Cooking method:
Cut the mollusks into half-centimeter rings.
We chop the onion, cilantro, parsley and garlic as finely as possible.
Pour a spoonful of vegetable oil into a heated frying pan and put a piece of cream.
Fry the onion and garlic with herbs. Add a little salt and pepper. Add some weed. Stir and bring the vegetables to soften.
Pour squids into the pan.
After two minutes, add the sour cream. Mix well, let it boil, add flour. Mix it with squid and other ingredients.
Cover with a lid and leave to cook for no more than two minutes.
Recipe 3. Squid fried with onions in hot sauce
Even gourmets will appreciate such a dish. Spicy sauce with a sweet and sour taste, containing many ingredients, turns fried squid with onions into a delicious dish.
Ingredients:
• half the sweet pepper red and yellow;
• carrot;
• 50 gr. ginger
• five cloves of garlic;
• a third of chili peppers;
• sweet onion;
• 0.1 kg of young green peas;
• 0.4 kg squid;
• 50 gr. soya sauce;
• two tablespoons of sugar;
• for p. table sherry, rice vinegar and sweet chili sauce;
• tsp sesame oil.
Cooking method:
Cut the pepper and carrot into thin slices.
Cut the ginger into small cubes.
Garlic in raw form will be sent to a stewpan with boiling water. Let him stay there for no more than two minutes. Then we move the garlic into the cold water. Such a procedure will make its taste softer.
Peel the garlic and chop with thin plates. Connect with ginger cubes.
We cut the chili pepper into very small pieces and pour it over to ginger.
We connect peas with carrots.
Cut the onion into rings and shift into a bowl.
Prepared squid cut into medium plates.
Put it in a bowl with onions and add soy sauce.
After about fifteen minutes, squid and fry the onions until cooked. Unload them from the pan.
Fry ginger with garlic and chili. Add sugar and mix.
Pour the carrot, sweet pepper and green peas into the pan.
Alternately add sherry, rice vinegar, sweet sauce and sesame oil.
Fry until the sherry evaporates and the vegetables become soft.
Put the finished sauce to the squid fried with onions.
Recipe 4. Squid fried with onions in sour cream "Easy."
The dish is soft and delicate in taste. It is easy to prepare, the amount of ingredients is minimal.
Ingredients:
• four carcasses of squid;
• two onions;
• tsp Sahara;
• two lavrushki;
• six pcs. pepper peas;
• ground pepper;
• salt;
• 0.15 kg of sour cream;
• 0.05 kg of fresh dill.
Cooking method:
In a saucepan boil one and a half liters of water. Add sugar, lavrushka and pepper.
Hold each carcass for twenty seconds in boiling water with spices.
We cut the peeled and washed squids into rings and then divide them in half.
Chop the onions into medium slices. Fry until half cooked and add the squid slices.
After a minute, fill in the sour cream and mix.
Salt and pepper, leave for five minutes to stew under the lid.
Shred dill and sprinkle squid a minute before cooking.
Recipe 5. Fried calamari with onions and homemade mayonnaise sauce
Cooking directly fried squid with onions takes only a few minutes. But the sauce takes longer to prepare. But it will absolutely change the usual taste of squid, make it simply magical.
Ingredients:
• three eggs;
• 0.6 kg squid;
• two onions;
• three tbsp. l flour;
• l Art. Dijon mustard;
• for tsp salt and sugar;
• 0.15 kg of vegetable oil;
• half a lemon;
• half a bunch of dill;
• 0.1 kg of capers;
• ground pepper;
• four cloves of garlic;
• three gherkins;
• 70 grams of dry wine.
Cooking method:
Cut the prepared squid into small pieces and leave it to lie in a colander so that the excess water is gone.
Separate the yolks from the proteins and send them to the mixer bowl. Add Dijon mustard and turn on the kitchen assistant for thirty seconds. Pour in vegetable oil, squeeze the juice out of lemon, add salt and add sugar. Turn on the mixer for another fifteen seconds.
Pour the contents into a blender and add finely chopped dill.
Chop the capers, crush and chop the garlic. Send both ingredients to a blender.
Finely chop the gherkins. Also, sprinkle them in a blender.
Pour dry wine and turn on the blender for half a minute. It turned out a wonderful sauce.
Grind the bulbs into small pieces. Fry lightly in a skillet.
Sliced squid in flour and sent to the onion. We fry them for no more than four minutes, unload with a slotted spoon on a plate. Sprinkle with black pepper.
Pour the sauce and enjoy the magical taste.
Recipe 6. Fried squid with onions in sour cream "Vegetables with seafood"
Soft and tender slices of squid are buried in sour cream sauce with healthy and tasty vegetables.
Ingredients:
• 900 grams of squid;
• one carrot;
• four onions;
• three tomatoes;
• two garlic cloves;
• seasoning for seafood;
• 0.25 kg of sour cream;
• l table flour;
• salt and black pepper.
Cooking method:
Onions cut into half rings and fry until soft.
Grind carrots into strips, and tomatoes into small pieces.
Add both vegetables to the pan and simmer until cooked, covering the pan with a lid.
Squids, peeled and washed, cut into rings. Add to the pan with vegetables and simmer for about three minutes under the lid.
Grind the garlic and pour it into a separate bowl. Add flour, sour cream, salt and spices. We mix everything.
Pour the resulting sauce into a squid pan, stir.
Turn off the dish after three or four minutes. You can begin to enjoy eating squid fried with onions in sour cream.
Recipe 7. Fried squid with onion "In a special way"
Squid is not necessarily cut into rings or half rings. You can fry it almost entirely, and then the dish will be delicious in a special way.
Ingredients:
• half a kilogram of unpeeled squid;
• three garlic cloves;
• onion;
• half a glass of alcohol (40%);
• ground pepper and sea salt.
Cooking method:
We clean the squid in the usual way. Divide into large (like chop) pieces and each cut on one side along and across cubes. Sprinkle with pepper and add.
Cut the onions in half rings and fry in vegetable oil for about three minutes.
Chop the garlic into medium slices and add it to the onion.
We lay out each piece of squid in turn. He begins to curl. With the help of a shovel, we help him do this. It is necessary that the incised part was on top.
Pour strong alcohol and fry for no more than four minutes. Alcohol during this time will not only break out, but also evaporate, leaving the squid an unusual aftertaste.
Recipe 8. Fried squid with onions in sour cream "Home Lunch"
An interesting and simple recipe will help you prepare a delicious dinner.
Ingredients:
• one and a half kg of squid;
• 400 gr. sour cream;
• two onions;
• three arrows of a green beam;
• 50 grams of pine nuts;
• sea salt;
• garlic clove;
• seasoning for seafood;
• one liter dining room olive oil.
Cooking method:
Mussels, previously prepared, cut into half a centimeter thick ringlets.
Shred the onion into small pieces. Cut the garlic into thin slices.
Fry in a preheated pan and add the squid. Salt and pour seasoning.
Pour sour cream into a frying pan and simmer for about five minutes.
Finely chop the green onion and mix it with pine nuts.
We load in a frying pan, stir and after a couple of minutes unload on a plate.
You can start tasting fried squid with onions in sour cream.
Fried Squids with Onions - Tips and Tricks
- To make the squid softer, you need to beat it off. To do this, you can use the pan - wide and flat. Cover the squid with baking paper and gently beat it off. You can use the hammer, but the pan is faster.
- It’s good to prepare the squid for quick cleaning and marinate at the same time. To do this, pour three liters of water into a saucepan and add three tablespoons of apple cider vinegar, a spoonful of vegetable oil and sugar. Pour salt and pepper. The marinade is brought to the boil as quickly as possible. The squid is drowning in it. After a few seconds, remove the saucepan from the heat. Squid is poured with cold water and cleaned.
