Puff salad with squid: composition, preparation, decoration

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Puff salad with squid is a very he althy, tasty, spectacular dish. Such a salad is a real decoration of the festive table: neatly stacked layers delight the eye, stimulate the appetite. The main component of the dish is squid.

How to clean squids

Puff pastry squid salad can be made with either peeled or unpeeled squid.

With shellfish, the pre-preparation process is much faster and easier. Unpeeled squid take longer to prepare, but their meat is more tender, juicy and tasty.

Frozen clams should be thawed, poured with boiling water, kept in hot water for 1 minute, and then poured with cold water. Thanks to this “contrast shower”, the skin is removed easily.

The second way to peel the skin is more extreme, but very effective. It consists in the fact that 1-2 frozen carcasses are poured with boiling water. After 5-10 seconds, when the skin begins to peel off and curl up in separate shreds, the carcass is doused with cold water (it is convenient to do this in the sink under the tap) and the remaining skin is removed with your fingers.

Afterskinning a squid pulls out all the insides, including the chord - a transparent plate that is stretched throughout the body. This is done simply and quickly.

For the perfect effect, you can turn the clam inside out, like a sock, and carefully remove the inner transparent film that envelops the entire torso.

How to boil squid properly

Puff pastry salad with squid begins to cook, as a rule, with boiling shellfish. And this is the most important step when working with any dish that includes squid. You should always remember the immutable rule: the longer it is cooked, the more tough, tasteless and useless this seafood becomes. If the cooking process lasts longer than 3 minutes, the most tender meat becomes elastic, like rubber, the nutritional value disappears, and the unusual taste is lost. For uniform heating of the mollusk, it is most convenient to use wide dishes.

Carcasses should be thawed at room temperature. Boil water, s alt, add bay leaf, peppercorns. Put the carcasses in a container with boiling water, after 10 seconds remove the dishes from the heat, cover with a lid. After the seafood has been steamed for 8-10 minutes (preferably under the lid), you can immediately start preparing the salad.

If you don't have the time or desire to mess around with defrosting, the cooking process can be simplified. In this case, the frozen carcasses are carefully lowered into boiling water and boiled for 1 minute. Then remove from heat, soak in hot water for 3-4 minutes.

Squid + shrimp

Puff saladwith squid and shrimp may include various additional ingredients. One of the most common is "Mediterranean": with shrimp, squid, eggs.

Ingredients:

• 0.3 kg squid;

• 0.3 kg shrimp;

• 3 eggs;

• dill (greens);

• olives or black olives - optional;

• mayonnaise;

• s alt, pepper.

Boil eggs, cool, peel, grate or cut into cubes.

Cut the boiled and chilled squid into wide strips, and then into squares. Boil the shrimp in lightly s alted water, cut the small ones into 2 parts, the large ones into 3-4 parts, leaving a few pieces to decorate the salad.

Mix mayonnaise with finely chopped dill. Put all the layers, lubricating each of them with mayonnaise, in a salad bowl in layers. Decorate with shrimp and olives (olives).

Based on "Mediterranean" salad "Neptune".

In this case, diced crab sticks and red caviar are added to all the previous ingredients, which are placed on top.

Squid + mushrooms

Puff salad with squid and mushrooms is prepared according to the following recipe for 4 servings:

• 0.5 kg squid;

• 0.2 kg of mushrooms (mushrooms, porcini, boletus, oyster mushrooms);

• 0.2 kg of cheese;

• 50 g nuts (walnuts);

• mayonnaise and sour cream for sauce - 1 cup each;

• spices.

Boiled and cooled squidscut into thin strips.

Rinse the mushrooms, cut into thin slices, fry for 15-20 minutes until golden brown. Lightly s alt while frying.

Cheese is better to use soft varieties that give the dish extra tenderness. Grate cheese on a coarse grater.

Chop walnuts with a blender, grater or mortar.

To prepare the sauce, mix sour cream and mayonnaise, spices (you can add garlic).

If you want to make the dish low-calorie, nuts can be replaced with sesame seeds, and the sauce with low-fat unsweetened yogurt.

Put all the ingredients in a common salad bowl or in portions in layers: mushrooms, squid, cheese. Soak each layer with sauce. Decorate the dish with grated nuts.

How to decorate a layered salad

Whatever the ingredients in the squid salad recipe, the layered design looks like a work of art on the festive table.

The main feature of the puff salad is that each ingredient is laid out in neat tiers, creating a spectacular picture. This requires more time than the mixed version, but the result will surely please both the chef and the guests.

There are a few things to keep in mind that turn an ordinary layered salad into a culinary masterpiece:

• The color scheme is an important part of the appearance of the salad. The more contrast the color of the ingredients that make up the layers, the more elegant the dish looks.

• The salad turns out to be very satisfying and tasty if each layer is soaked in sauce in accordance with the recipe.

• The juiciness of the salad is not so much the amount of sauce used for soaking, but the time the salad is kept before serving. If you leave the salad for 2-3 hours in the refrigerator, the taste will become rich and harmonious, and the texture will be more tender and juicy.

Puff salad with squid looks most impressive and festive in a transparent bowl.

You can also serve the dish in portions, laying it on a flat plate using a special form (ring), the role of which can be played by any container without a bottom. If there is no such dish at hand, you can use an ordinary plastic bottle, cutting it to the desired height.

To decorate the salad, you can use red and black caviar, shrimps, mussels.