Easy meals: main dishes of calamari.

Squid, and other seafood, very light product, and it is extremely useful and nutritious, making them essential product for every person that cares about their health. In the daily diet to include squid is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance - there are many simple recipes of dishes that you can cook this seafood.

Although the benefits of regular use squid as food is widely known, and that in stores squid can be bought at an affordable price a long time ago, we eat them not so often: eat mostly salads for the holidays and stuffed squid too often for any special occasions. And yet, there is still a huge number of everyday recipes with this product, on which you can prepare simple and healthy meals for lunch or dinner.

The calamari was very fond of the ancient Romans and Greeks, they called them "flying fish". Most dishes of squid can be found in Mediterranean cuisine.

To undoubted advantages of this product are that it is very easy and quick to cook. The main nuances, whatever you cooked squid, will be to correctly clean the squid and not to overdo the dish on the stove, otherwise they will lose their great taste. But it's a matter of practice - knowing the intricacies of cooking squid and once their using, the next time each cook prepares them already much more confident.

Recipes of dishes of calamari.

As already noted, the recipes of dishes of squid there are a lot of them and each chef can only choose those that are most interesting. We have tried to collect in this article most successful recipes of dishes from different categories: Podarok, chops, stews, etc.

Recipe braised in sour cream squid

You will need: 200g sour cream, 2 carcass squid, 1 onion, 1-2 pinches of salt, 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil 1-2 tsp. ground paprika, 0.5 tsp. of flour.

How to cook stewed in sour cream squid. Cut the prepared squid strips or rings, chop finely onion, 1 tbsp. of vegetable oil to heat in a pan, saut 7 minutes and onions, add the flour, stir, pour the sour cream, stir and bring mixture to a boil. In boiling the cream put the squid, put 5 min with the lid, season with paprika, stir and turn the heat off. Submit squid in sour cream to the table with a side dish.

In this dish, you can add any vegetables - carrots, zucchini, and so on: they laid together with onions and communicated until soft, then added sour cream and squid.

Due to the fact that squid cannot be subjected to heat treatment more than 5 minutes, otherwise they will get tough, all main dishes of them are prepared very quickly!

Recipe braised squid with rice

You will need: 500g squid, frozen or fresh, 2 onions, 1 Cup of rice, 0.5 cups of milk, 3 tbsp butter, 1,5 tbsp flour, pepper, salt.

How to put out a squid with rice. Clean and prepare the squid. The rice until soft boil. Chop the squid and fry 3 min, mixed with rice. Finely chop the onion and skumanich in butter, mix with rice and squid, pour milk, add salt, put the butter, cover the pan with a lid and place in a preheated medium temperature oven, simmer until the rice is cooked no less than 30min.

When temperature processing more than 30 minutes squid again become softer.

With squid you can cook a lot of traditional dishes, such as burgers.

Recipe meatballs with squid

You will need: 400g squid cleaned, 50-70g of potatoes, 50g of stale bread, 40-50g of butter, 1 egg and the onion ? glass of water/milk, pepper, salt, vegetable oil, bread crumbs/flour.

How to cook meatballs with squid. Soak the bread in water or milk, along with squid and onions cut in a meat grinder, add the butter and grated potatoes, pepper, salt, beat the egg and all beat well. From ground meat molded round patties, roll in flour or breadcrumbs (you may breaded in flour, then in egg and finally in breadcrumbs). Fry the patties in a frying pan with hot oil until taromenane.

You can cook these patties in the oven or steamed.

The following dish is easy and delicious, inspired by Mediterranean cuisine.

Recipe braised in wine calamari with olives and tomatoes

You will need: 700g frozen/fresh squid, 6 olives, 3 cloves of garlic, 2 tomatoes, 1 bunch parsley, 0.5 cups dry white wine and olive oil ? tsp. black pepper, lemon, salt.

How to put out a squid in wine. Grate peeled squid with salt, 10-15min to leave, then cut into rings. Merge with olives liquid, cut them into 4 pieces, lowered on 20s tomatoes in boiling water, peel, cut into small, finely chop the garlic, parsley. In a pan heat the oil and fry the squid, pour in the wine, add the garlic, parsley and tomatoes, cook until tender squid, season with lemon juice, salt and black pepper. Decorate the dish when serving olives and lemon slices.

As you know, I love squid, like all seafood, East, and Eastern cuisine is becoming increasingly popular in us, so our last recipe and, according to tradition, the most unusual - Eastern cuisine, and, more precisely, from the Chinese.

The recipe for squid in Chinese with honey

You will need: 500g squid, 1 onion, 1 large bell pepper, 1 stack of soy sauce, 1 tbsp. of honey, vegetable oil, pepper.

How to cook squid in Chinese. Clean the squid, washed, dipped in salted boiling water for 2min, then cut into rings. To heat oil on the pan, put the onions and julienne sliced sweet peppers, 2 minutes and fry until taromenane onions, put the squid, add honey and soy sauce, stir over high heat and fry for 5 minutes, remove from heat and immediately submit the dish to the table.

Try to do a variety of daily main dishes of squid, you will love this product even more for its ease of preparation and excellent taste dishes prepared with it properly. Eat healthy foods and be healthy!