How to clean the squid quickly and correctly?

Many original recipes for seafood dishes remain unused unless the landlady knows how to clean squid at home correctly and quickly. But you only have to decide once for an experiment and learn a simple process. In the future, a healthy and nutritious squid will become the best part of a variety of salads, decorate the table with fried, boiled, stewed or pickled.

Competent choice - the key to the success of

In order to get a tasty and healthy seafood on the table, you need to choose it right in the store. It depends on how easy it is to clean the films and how tender the meat will turn out to be. Peeled squid is not recommended to buy, because some of the nutrients have already been lost, and the taste will be much worse.

1. You do not need to choose large animals, but smaller ones. Then you can avoid the effect of rubber meat, skins will be easily removed.
2. If the frozen squid was stored with impairments and already defrosted, they will be bitterly cooked, so only carcasses that do not stick together are needed.
3. You need to make sure that the meat under the film is white. If the temperature regime is not maintained, it will become the color of the film - cyanotic or pinkish.
   

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   Sometimes the carcasses lie on the display window for sufficient time to change the taste. To be sure of the correct storage, ask the seller to give you carcases from the briquette. If you are denied on the pretext that they are not "ripped off," then this product does not suit you, you need to purchase properly frozen squid.

4. Before cooking, the meat should be kept frozen, then the taste will be preserved, and it will be easy to clean.

How to film with frozen squid?

The process is incredibly simple.

1. Prepare a saucepan of steep boiling water.
2. Remove the squid from the freezer and fold it into a bowl.
3. Pour seafood with boiling water. In this case, the skin will almost completely come off on its own.
4. Immediately quickly drain hot water and rinse the contents of the bowl under running water, gently removing the remaining film. Act better quickly, and then squid are prepared very quickly and can even be cooked, if in time they are not removed from boiling water.
5. It remains only to clean the inside and flexible spine.

Can I remove film from thawed meat?

There are situations when squid get home already defrosted. Summer heat and unforeseen delays in the way should not prevent to prepare a tasty dish. To do this, you need to perform the following algorithm.

1. Prepare a saucepan of boiling water and seasonings( salt, bay leaf and pepper).
2. Cut the bird along and remove the entrails.
3. Rinse the meat well.
4. In seasoned boiling water boil the carcasses for 2-3 minutes.
5. Pull out the squid. In this case, the films remain in the water, having traveled themselves.

How to work with chilled squid?

If the squid has only recently been taken from the seabed and they have fallen into your hands chilled, this is a great success. Meat will be the most delicious and nutritious. However, the difference will consist in the presence of the head and tentacles. Squids have to be cleaned independently at home. If the head needs to be removed permanently, the tentacles can be eaten. They are cut off at the very eyes. There is also a film on them, the principle of working with it is the same as for the whole carcass.

And to clean from the skins, you need to perform a number of simple actions.

1. Prepare a saucepan of boiling water.
2. Squids with the entrails removed and the chord folded in a colander, pour out with boiling water, and then immediately with cold water.
3. Pull the skin from the larger part to the thin, from the wings just scraped off.
4. Analogously treat the tentacles. The only difference is that it will be even easier to remove the film, it will practically go away under the action of boiling water.

Ready squid carcasses can be cooked in a variety of ways. They can be boiled for a few minutes on high heat or forty minutes on a weak one. You can fry thin rings separately and with vegetables. They are delicious, if the meat is marinated, stuffed, knocked and baked. In this case, the main thing is to precisely control the process, so as not to overdo it with heat treatment: nobody likes hard meat with a rubber taste. The time that the carcasses were carried out with boiling water is also taken into account.

You have to be careful when taking film. Removable and subject to color and transparent. In case you leave a part and cook meat with it, the piece will be firm and concise. Correctly processed seafood will become a real delicacy, which can become an exquisite gourmet dish prepared at home.