What do we most often cook cutlets? From meat, fish, even vegetables. It turns out that you can make cutlets from squid - diet, tasty and useful. In many countries, seafood dishes, which include squid, are very popular and are considered a delicacy. These products contain a lot of protein, phosphorus and iron, which are so necessary for our body. And to prepare a squid is simple enough, so let's use some recipes and try to surprise guests and household members.
How to cook cutlets from squid?
First squids need to be thawed, since we often sell them frozen, and clean them thoroughly. Defrost the squid necessarily at room temperature. No boiling water or microwave. Otherwise, the meat will become rubber and the cutlets from squid, the recipe of which we will give you below, will be completely spoiled. After defrosting the shellfish should be thoroughly cleaned of the viscera, remove the horta, film and rinse under cold running water. As you can see, nothing complicated. And calamari are prepared very quickly, much faster than any meat dish.
Cutlets from squid - recipe
What else are original cutlets from squid, so this is because not everyone can guess what the dish is made of. Therefore, these cutlets can "deceive" their children, who do not like fish.
Ingredients:
- squid - 800 g;
- spices for fish dishes - to taste;
- onion - 1 piece;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil.
Preparation
Defrost the squid (at room temperature) and thoroughly rinse under running water. We lay the carcass with the back on the cutting board, make a cut along the abdomen and remove the chord and the insides. Now carefully peel off the skin. Once again we wash the squid, put it in a bowl, cover and put it for 1 hour in the refrigerator. We clean the onion and let it pass along with the squid through the meat grinder. Best of all, skip them twice, then the squid cutlets will be tender. Add pepper, salt, spices to the stuffing and carefully mix. Now from squid we form cutlets and put them on a frying pan with preheated vegetable oil. Fry from both sides until a mouth-watering ruddy crust.
Fans of dietary nutrition can cook cutlets from squid for a couple. We prepare the forcemeat in the same way as in the recipe above, then we form the cutlets and put them in the steamer for 20-25 minutes. If you do not have a steamer, then you can use the usual colander and a pot of boiling water.
Cutlets from squid in the oven
For those who do not like fried food, our recipe for calamari cutlets cooked in the oven will be to our taste.
Ingredients:
- squid - 1 kg;
- bulb - 1 piece;
- egg - 2 pieces;
- flour - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Preparation
First, we will separate the squid, remove the insides from them, chord and thoroughly wash it under running water. Then, let's skip
By the way, in minced meat to squids you can easily add fish fillet - perch or cod. Take, for example, 500 grams of fish fillets and 400 grams of squid. Fish cutlets with squid have a very delicate taste, you can serve them with potato or vegetable garnish.
You will certainly enjoy some other recipes of squid dishes, for example: stuffed , or fried squids .