Today there are more and more recipes of salads with such tasty and useful seafood as squids. Simplest for preparation of such dish to use preserved food, however more tasty salad turns out nevertheless from fresh squids. However, before it they need to be cut and boiled correctly.
What squids to use for salad
For preparation of tasty salad it is better to use unpeeled squids as they aren't exposed to preliminary thermal treatment. Otherwise this seafood it will be necessary to keep smaller amount of time in boiled water, otherwise their meat will become similar to rubber.
Choosing squids, it is worth paying attention to color of their thin skin - it has to have a pinkish-lilac shade and smooth structure. The cracked skin of brown color demonstrates numerous freezing of a product and semifresh.
How many to cook squids for salad
Before starting cooking, squids it is necessary to defreeze at room temperature or in cold water, to cut off at them the head. Then to fill in with boiled water for 1 minute, to get and clean from a thin skin which under the influence of hot water will be curtailed. After that from a carcass of a squid it is necessary to take out all entrails and a rigid chord which passes along a back. The squids cut and washed out under flowing water it is possible to cook for salad. For this purpose it is necessary to boil water in a pan and to salt it a little. Then to lower carcasses of squids in a pan no more than for 10-15 minutes. Ready squids it is necessary to cool, cut in rings or cubes and to add to salad.
It is very important not to overdo squids in water, otherwise they will become very rigid and will decrease in sizes.
Recipe of salad with squids
For preparation of this light and at the same time nourishing salad it is required to you: - 6 squids; - 6 eggs; - ½ heads of cabbage of the Beijing cabbage; - 300 g of cooked and frozen shrimps; - 2 fresh cucumbers; - 3 tablespoons of olive oil; - 1 h spoon of Dijon mustard; - 2 tablespoons of lemon juice; - salt to taste.
Instead of olive oil, juice of a lemon, mustard and honey it is possible to use usual mayonnaise.
Squids defreeze, cut off at them the head, clean from a thin skin and an entrails in the way described above. Then carefully wash a baking plate with water and lower in the boiling added some salt water for 10 seconds. After you get squids, in the same water lower cooked and frozen shrimps, wait so far they will begin to boil, and then take out. Cool the boiled seafood to room temperature. Squids cut rings, and shrimps clean. Put all ingredients in a salad bowl, add to them the eggs cut with straws cucumbers and the crushed Beijing cabbage boiled hard-boiled and largely cut. Prepare gas station for salad. For this purpose mix olive oil, lemon juice, mustard and liquid honey in separate capacity. Pour over salad with squids the prepared dressing, salt to taste, mix and give to a table.