Seafood should definitely be included in the diet of your family for every hostess. For example, you can quickly and easily cook various salads with squid. The most delicious of them are described below with clear step-by-step recipes.

Squid salad is the most delicious and simple recipe.

The simplest, but at the same time very interesting and tasty version of such an appetizer includes only three main ingredients. These are: pickled cucumber, fresh cucumber, 4 thawed squid carcasses. The sauce is prepared from: slices of garlic, mayonnaise, small. tablespoons of sesame oil, half an onion and a small amount of ketchup.

  1. Seafood is thawed under water (cold!), Gets rid of the chord and all the insides. To remove the film from the carcasses, you must first fill them with boiling water, and then with ice water. The peel itself will instantly curl.
  2. The squid, peeled and cut into strips, is boiled for 3 minutes in its own juice. Water does not pour into the tank. The liquid will evaporate from seafood.
  3. Both types of cucumbers are first peeled off, then they are cut with miniature whetstones and mixed with the prepared squid.
  4. For the sauce, onions and garlic are rubbed on the grater (the smallest), combined with butter and mayonnaise. Ketchup is only added for an attractive mass color.

The appetizer is seasoned with sauce, salted to taste and served at the table.

With cucumber and egg

The taste of hard-boiled eggs goes well with boiled squid. For dressing, it is better to use fish sauce (15 ml) with spices.Of the remaining ingredients taken: 330 g squid, fresh cucumber, a handful of cherry tomatoes, 3 large eggs, a pinch of fresh cilantro and roasted peanuts in a pan, small. grated ginger and the same amount of sugar, 65 ml of fresh lemon juice.

  1. For dressing, lemon juice is poured into the fish sauce, ginger and sugar are added.
  2. Squids are cleaned, cut with bars and half a minute blanched in salted boiling water.
  3. While seafood is cooled, hard boiled eggs.
  4. Cucumber is cut in cubes, tomatoes - in 2-4 parts.
  5. All components are connected, watered with dressing.

Squid salad with cucumber and chopped cilantro egg and ground nuts is decorated.

With mushrooms

Such a squid salad will be a worthy snack for a chic festive table. It includes: 3 garlic cloves, 270 g squid, 90 g hard cheese, a small handful of almonds, 370 g fresh mushrooms, mayonnaise.

  1. Mushrooms are boiled in salt water and finely chopped.
  2. Squids are boiled in a separate container also in salted liquid. After about 1 minute, you can remove them from the fire. After the product cools, it is cut into thin rings.
  3. Cheese is chopped into small sticks.
  4. All ingredients are mixed, seasoned with mayonnaise with the addition of chopped garlic and ground nuts.

The dish is decorated with sprigs of fresh dill.

Squid and Shrimp Recipe

The squid in the snack is delicious to combine with other seafood. Especially with shrimp (180 g). In addition to them, it is taken: 3 fresh cucumbers, 2 chicken eggs, sour cream.

  1. The eggs are boiled until cooked, peeled and cut into strips.
  2. Shrimps are cooked in salt water for 7-8 minutes.
  3. Squids are immersed in boiling water for 1.5 minutes and chopped with cubes.
  4. Cucumbers are cut in a similar way.
  5. All components are mixed and seasoned with sour cream.

You can add salt to your taste and add your favorite spices to it.

With tomatoes and cheese

This is the juiciest squid based appetizer. It is prepared from: 280 g of seafood, 210 g of hard cheese, 2 ripe tomatoes, granulated garlic, mayonnaise.

  1. The squid carcass is cleaned, boiled for a couple of minutes in salt water and cut in any convenient way.
  2. Tomatoes do not need to be peeled, just crush them into cubes.
  3. The cheese is rubbing coarsely.
  4. All components are placed in a deep bowl, sprinkled with garlic, salted and seasoned with mayonnaise.

Instead of mayonnaise, you can take sour cream or prepared garlic sauce.

Salad with squid, carrots and garlic

For this snack, it is better to take not fresh carrots, but cooked in Korean. It will be enough 180 grams. You also need to use: garlic to taste, 420 g squid, red onion, mayonnaise, 3 garlic cloves.

  1. The onion is peeled and cut into thin half rings.
  2. Squids are dipped in already boiling water and boiled for no more than 3 minutes. Otherwise, the carcasses will become tough and "rubber".
  3. Seafood is cut into medium-sized strips.
  4. In a salad bowl all components are combined and salted to taste.

The dish is seasoned with a mixture of mayonnaise and garlic slices passed through a press.

With corn

Canned corn makes the salad sweet. Therefore, lovers of unusual taste combinations will like it. The recipe includes: 2 cucumbers (fresh), 4 large eggs, a bunch of green onions, 330 g of canned sweet corn, ½ kg of peeled squid, mayonnaise, any seasonings.

  1. In boiling water, seafood is cooked for about 1 minute, and is obtained by a slotted spoon. At the same time, finished squids are immersed in ice water. Then you can cut them in any convenient way.
  2. Liquid-free corn goes to seafood.
  3. Hard-boiled eggs are cut into cubes, cucumbers - into strips. The greens are chopped finely.
  4. All products are combined, if desired, salted, sprinkled with selected spices and seasoned with mayonnaise.

The appetizer can be served immediately.

Korean squid hee

This appetizer is very juicy and will appeal only to adults. It is prepared from: 290 g squid, carrots, small.tablespoons of ground red pepper, onion, 2 large tablespoons of vegetable oil, a large pinch of salt and 4 large tablespoons of soy sauce.

  1. Seafood carcasses get rid of membranes and skins, 3 minutes boil in 1.5 liters of water. The chilled component is cut into thin strips.
  2. Carrots are chopped using a special grater for a Korean snack, after which it is salted and left for half an hour.
  3. Onions are cut in half rings and fried in any oil until golden.
  4. All ingredients are mixed, salted, sprinkled with seasonings. Carrots are squeezed from the juice and only after that goes for a snack. Dressed with soy sauce.

The treat should be infused in the chill night.

With the addition of caviar

The appetizer has the name "Royal". It is explained by the ingredients used: 3-4 chicken eggs, 60 g of red salmon caviar, 220 g of crab sticks, 90 g of canned pineapples without syrup, ½ kg of squid.

  1. Hard boiled eggs, squid - a couple of minutes. Both products cool and cut into strips.
  2. Pineapple is an optional component of the snack, but it makes its taste especially bright and original. The fruit is diced.
  3. Crab sticks are chopped with thin sticks.
  4. All components are mixed in a deep container.

The salad is salted to taste and seasoned with a portion of mayonnaise.

Canned squid salad

If the hostess does not want to cook seafood, you can cook canned snacks. Squid will need 200 grams. In addition to them, it is taken: 180 g of canned green peas, a bunch of green onions, 2 eggs, mayonnaise.

  1. Hard-boiled eggs are cut into strips.
  2. Onion feathers are washed with cold water and chopped with ringlets.
  3. Squids are finely chopped.
  4. All prepared foods are combined.
  5. It remains to add peas to the canned squid salad.

The treat is salted and seasoned with mayonnaise.

Ham recipe

Ham will add satiety to the dish. A chicken or meat component (280 g) is suitable. In addition to ham, you need to prepare: seafood fillet (1/2 kg), 1 fresh cucumber, sweet bell pepper, mayonnaise.

  1. Squids are cleaned, finely chopped and boiled in salt water for a couple of minutes.
  2. Ham is chopped into strips. It is better to use a low-fat product without obvious impregnations of fat.
  3. Vegetables are chopped into thin sticks.
  4. All components are combined, salted, poured with mayonnaise and salted to taste.

You can use any low-calorie sauce to make it dietary.

With chicken

If a small piece of chicken is left in the refrigerator, you can use it to make a light, fresh salad. In addition to chicken (200-220 g), it is taken: 270 g squid, 80 g canned corn, fresh cucumber, 2 medium eggs.

  1. Chicken and squid are cooked until cooked in salt water (in separate pots). Then they are cut into arbitrary pieces.
  2. Cucumber without skin is chopped into strips. Hard-boiled eggs are diced.
  3. All prepared components are combined, salted. Sweet corn without liquid is sent to them.

You can season the salad with mayonnaise, sour cream or any garlic sauce.

With crab sticks

It is very important to choose high-quality sticks. The product should not be too dry. In addition to packing juicy crab sticks (200 g), you will need to use: 2 medium carcasses of seafood, 2 selected eggs, a small bunch of fresh dill, mayonnaise, a mixture of peppers.

  1. The carcasses are boiled for a couple of minutes in boiled water, after which they are cut with ringlets.
  2. Hard boiled eggs and chopped into cubes.
  3. Crab sticks are thawed in advance and cut into strips. To speed up the process of their preparation, you can take a chilled product that you can immediately use.
  4. In a deep beautiful dish all the crushed components are combined. Lastly, finely chopped greens are sent to the container.

The appetizer is seasoned with mayonnaise and mixed. It’s enough to pepper it. Salt can not be used.

How to cook squid for salad?

Discussed seafood can be called quite moody. It is necessary to overexposure it in boiling water, as it becomes "rubber".Therefore, before you start cooking snacks based on it, you need to figure out how to cook squid for salad correctly.

First of all, carcasses are always cleaned of film, chords and any other extra components. If you pour squid over boiling water, then the film itself will begin to peel off from them. It remains only to remove its remnants with your fingers.

In general, the cooking time of such products should not exceed 3-4 minutes. But this applies to whole carcasses. If the squid is already cut into pieces, then just hold them for 1 minute in boiling water.

If the hostess is confident in the quality of the seafood she has acquired, then you can not cook it at all. It will only be necessary to lower thin slices into cool boiling water.

If you still made a mistake, and squid stayed in boiling water for more than 5 minutes, then long cooking will help to make them soft again. The product is kept on fire for another half hour.