A few simple and delicious salads of squid

Delicate and juicy squid meat is ideal for preparing hearty winter salads. But apart from this, this seafood is literally stuffed with useful minerals and vitamins. In addition, you can cook absolutely any dishes from squids, some even manage to make cutlets and meatballs out of them.

But today we will pay attention to salads, as squid can become an ideal decoration for a festive table.

How to prepare seafood

Often dishes from squid are bypassed, since they consider that it is rather difficult. And those who still risked, faced with the fact that the mollusc is hard, rubbery and completely tasteless. Here are some useful tips.

• Skin with shellfish before cooking should be removed. To do this, lower the product into boiling water for literally thirty seconds, and then immediately put it under a stream of iced water. The skin can easily be removed with hands or a knife.
• On the carcass is a chitinous plate, which must also be removed.
• Squid is better not to cook, to avoid stiffness, and cook for a couple of minutes.
• If you are going to fry this product, use only a hot frying pan and cook for no longer than five minutes, after a little beating off the meat.

Salad Recipes

With potato

We take such products:

• squid carcass - 300 g
• potatoes - 4 pcs.
• pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs.
• bunch of greenery
• green onion
• sour cream - 3 tbsp. l.

Preparation

1. Squid is thawed on the top shelf of the refrigerator, washed in cold water and cooked for a maximum of three minutes. We clean and cut with thin straws.
2. Cooked potatoes and cucumbers from a can is cut into thin slices.
3. Greens and onions finely chopped.
4. Mix all the ingredients, add salt, pepper and season with sour cream.

With apple and cheese

Ingredients:

• squid - 400 g
• apples - 3 pcs.
• two sweet onions
• cheese
• mayonnaise

The dish should be cooked well if guests come to you unexpectedly, because it takes a few minutes to prepare it. The only thing you have to worry about is the squid. Meat, peeled from the skin and seeds apples and cheese cut into thin pieces, and onion - half rings.

All this is mixed, salt, pepper and mayonnaise are added.

Take a deep plate, put on the bottom of her lettuce leaves, on them a mixture and serve to the table.

Salad with shrimps

If you like seafood, then this dish will be your favorite. For him it is necessary to take:

• squid - 700 g
• peeled shrimp - 500 g
• egg - 5 pcs.
• mayonnaise
• canned corn-0.5 cans
• fresh cucumber - 1 pc.

We start to prepare:

1. We squeeze squid and shrimp for a few minutes in boiling water. Carcasses of the shellfish are cleaned according to the technology described above.
2. All components are crushed with cubes or thick slices. It is better to adjust to the size of the shrimp. If they are small, you can not cut them at all, and the rest of the products make about the same size.
3. All ingredients are mixed and seasoned with mayonnaise.

With champignons

• Peeled squid - 300 g
• mushrooms (champignons) - 250 g
• eggs - 3-4 pcs.
• two feathers of spring onion and lettuce leaf
• any vegetable oil
• salt and pepper

Squid boil, cleanse the skin and bones and cut into thin strips. Grubs also need to be cut and fried in vegetable oil until cooked. At the end, add a little salt.

Cut the onion and grind the eggs.

This salad is interesting for its serve and almost complete lack of refueling. In the bowl we spread the leaves, on them - squid. Then fried mushrooms, eggs and decorate with green onions. If desired, you can slightly add the dish and pour it with a spoon of vegetable oil.