How to easily and quickly clean frozen and boiled squids from the film and how much to cook them after boiling for salad? How to defrost and correctly and quickly clean the carcass and tentacles of squid and boil?

Seafood in general and squid in particular are extremely useful. But how to choose a really useful seafood? How to clean the squid and boil? Let's try to figure out the review.

Which squid is better to buy: cleaned or not?

If you want to buy a "non -troublesome" product - buy peeled squid. But if you need a delicious and healthy seafood, choose only unpeeled carcasses.

In the Russian seafood market, about ten types of squid are represented, but only some of them deserve attention. One of the best is Calmar Commander. Appearance: Unpeeled carcass. Length: 35 cm. The color of the skin: gray with purple, uneven. Supplier: Russia.

Patagon squid is also highly valued. Appearance: Unpeeled carcass 2-23 cm long. The skin of the skin: red-brown, brown, uneven. Supplier: Spain.

In general, the color of the squid depends on the type of head-toe mollusk and can be grayish-white (but not gray), pink, blue, purple.

How to choose cooled and frozen squids?

Important: the younger the squid, the more he is his meat. Choose small carcasses.

What to pay attention to when choosing chilled squids:

• The carcass is dense and elastic.
• The color of meat under the skin is only white!
• The skin is whole, without obvious damage.
• The squid must have a chitin chord (spine).
• Smell: fresh fish. There may be a weakly expressed smell of ammonia.

What to pay attention to when choosing frozen squids:

• The amount of ice on the carcass is 8% of the total weight of the head.
• Frozen carcasses are easily separated from each other.
• The color of meat under the skin is only white!
• The skin is whole, without obvious damage.

Do I need to clean the squid before cooking?

Answer: Yes. In the process of cooking, an unpeeled skin can give bitterness of squid meat.

How to easily and quickly clean fresh and thawed squid at home?

The procedure for cleaning fresh/chilled squids:

• Put the squid on the work surface.

• Take the head of the mollusk right behind the eyes (where it connects with the mantle). Pull your head forward, tearing the ligaments. The insides should slip. Be careful not to damage a bag of ink (sapia).

• Inside the mantle, feel the chitonic chord and remove it.

• Remove the upper film, gently pushing it with a knife.

• Rinse, divide if necessary into portioned pieces.

• Cut the tentacles of the mollusk and fold them separately. Remove the squid beak located between the tentacles. Pour the tentacles with boiling water and transfer to ice water. Rinse, thoroughly wiping your fingers to remove thin skin.

The procedure for cleaning thawed squids:

Important: frozen squids should be thawed by placing them in cold water.

• Pour the carcasses of a little melted squid with boiling water. Leave at 30-60 s.
• Remove boiling water squid and transfer to ice water. From a sharp temperature difference, the skin flies itself.

Rinse squid under running water, washing off the remaining skin.

Correctly and quickly clean the carcass of squid?

This is described in detail in the previous part of the review.

Correctly and quickly clean the tentacles of squid?

See the previous part of the review.

How to clean the frozen squid from the film?

Above the test is the most common way to clean frozen squids.

At the end of the article, you can watch a video with a master class for cleaning squid from the chef Ilya Lasrason.

How to clean squid after cooking?

It is better to clean the squids before cooking, since the unpeeled film gives a bitter taste to boiled squid meat.

How to store peeled squid?

Squids belong to perishable products.

Cleaned raw squid can be stored in the refrigerator chamber at a temperature of 0 to +4 ° C for about 48 hours.

The shelf life of boiled squids should not exceed 12 hours. They should be stored in hermetically closed packaging.

How to properly cook peeled squid water after boiling for salad?

• Squids boil one or two carcasses to prevent the digestion of seafood.
• Spices and seasonings that are used in the preparation of squid: salt, pepper peas, dill. If desired, you can also add basil or parsley.
• Pour 1.5-2 liters of water into the pan, add spices and salt, bring to a boil.
• Place the peeled carcasses of squid in boiling water. Cooking time: 2 min.
• Remove seafood from the water and lay the next batch. Ready seafood should be cooled immediately.

Important: if you cook a lot of mollusks, add water, salt and spices from time to time.

An interesting way of cleaning and preparing squid is offered by the chef Ilya Laserson. A detailed master class can be seen in the video at the end of the article.

Video: Salad from squid in two ways. Lasrason