Recipe salad with squid and red caviar, as well as tips on how to choose fresh squid in the store
Salad with squid and red caviar( recipe just below) is tasty, nutritious and quick to prepare. Meat squid can be considered a storehouse of vitamins and nutrients. The complex of vitamins contained in squid meat, contributes to the reduction of cholesterol - the main cause of many diseases. And given their low calorie content, they are simply irreplaceable in the diet and will not spoil your figure in any way.
Squids dried, boiled, fried, soups made and stuffed. But the greatest popularity, of course, squid is used in salads. And this is quite understandable. Squids do not have a bright "fish" taste and are perfectly combined with other products, even the most exotic ones. In salads with squid add pineapple, kiwi, oranges, mango. All products simply can not be counted, include imagination and prepare a salad.
The most unusual and refined recipe for squid salad with red caviar, which we will tell you today.
But before you make our salad, you need to buy fresh squid. On how to choose them correctly in the store - read below.
Rules for the purchase of squid
The first rule is that squid must necessarily be frozen( believe, defrosted, that is, already squashed squid - will be bitter and creep away when cooking, it is essentially a marriage - as storage conditions are violated).
The second rule is that squid carcasses should not be stuck together, and should be easily separated from each other( this confirms that after packing, the briquette did not unfreeze).
The carcase covering the carcass can be of different colors: from gray-pink to purple. The color, as well as the size of the squid, depends on the age and habitat( that is, at what time of year and in what sea the clam was caught).And then - attention: the rule of the third - the meat under the film should be only white.
Look carefully at the color of the protein itself. Sometimes sellers spread a few squid carcasses on a display case. After a while, because the temperature of the display case is usually much higher than that of the freezer, the squid is thawed.
Meat absorbs all the color from the film covering it, the taste changes, the appearance - too. And they do not change for the better.
Sometimes unscrupulous sellers send the spoiled squid back into the freezer. Therefore, carefully take a closer look at the purchase.
Usually squid is packaged in briquettes. In each briquette - 11 kilograms of squid. In the whole box - three briquettes, and accordingly 33 kg of squid.
I think you will not be mistaken if you ask to separate the squid carcasses directly from the briquette. And if the seller refers to the fact that "he does not tear off a whole squid briquette" - quietly refuse to purchase, and buy the necessary in another place.
Ingredients for
salad You need: squids - 1 kg, 5 eggs, 140 grams of red caviar, onion, mayonnaise, greens, salt, pepper.
Salad preparation
Like all dishes from squid at home, this salad is cooked very quickly. Squid them from the film covering them and boil them.
Eggs boil hard and put under cold water.
Cut onion into thin half rings and pour on boiling water. This will remove from the onion bitterness, make it taste softer, sweet and will give the opportunity to complement the taste of squid.
Squids cut into strips. Eggs are cleaned from the shell and cut into half rings.
Mix squids, eggs, onions and finely chopped greens, add mayonnaise and mix. Add salt and pepper to taste. On top of the salad we spread red caviar.
If you want to diversify this salad , then you can complement it with other ingredients. Take except squid crab meat, shrimp. Add canned pineapples and olives, and you will receive an exotic seafood salad, and red caviar will add its notes to an incredible mix of flavors.
Video recipes
Salad with caviar, squid and greens:
Salad Royal:
Vegetable salad:
Olivier with squid: