Squids are a useful and delicious seafood, with which you can diversify the daily family diet. Some hostesses do not like to cook these mollusks, thinking that they are difficult to clean. It's a delusion. Squids are easily cleaned if you know small secrets of their processing.
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If you bought a fresh whole squid, put it in a bowl and determine where the head is. It is located tentacles. Holding the body of a squid with one hand, the second pull the head against himself. It is separated along with the insides. Expand the head with tentacles to yourself, find and remove the beak. Then remove your eyes. To do this, cut the tentacles into two halves or simply squeeze the eyes out. Clean the carcass from the films. In fresh squid, it goes easily at one reception. Remove the rigid chitin plate, which is inside the body. Well rinse the purified carcass with cold water.
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More often you have to cut frozen squid. To make their cleaning, do not take a lot of time, choose the product correctly in the store. Carcasses of frozen mollusks should easily be separated from each other. If they stick together, then squid has already been defined. When cutting, they will crawl, and after cooking - to be patched.
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Salma size and color depends on its habitat and age. The body of crude mollusk outside and from the inside is covered with a film. It can have colors: from pink to burgundy and purple. Under the film is white meat. After re-freeze, the meat becomes gray and loses its taste. Small squids are cleaned easier than large, and after cooking are softer.
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Often in stores selling already planned frozen carcasses. It makes it easier for their cleaning. At the broken squid remove the cartilage. Then remove the film from the carcas. If this is not done, with heat treatment they will become rigid, and the carcass itself will be squeezed. Clear film can be cleared in several ways. Without defrosting squid, put them in a bowl, scatter with steep boiling water, and then immediately transfer to a bowl of ice. The skin will take off the stocking. It is possible not to lay squids into ice, but simply to give them boiling water and immediately drain the water. The film is instantly folded and easily separated.
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To remove the skin with a frostbed carcass, put it in a saucepan with boiling salted water and boil 2 minutes. The film partially remains in water, and the remaining easily removes when washing a carcass in cold water. After that, squid is ready to eat. Its meat is soft and gentle.
Cleanted squid can be baked, cook, fry, marinate, dry, smoke, making stuffing from them. Do not deny yourself and your loved ones in pleasure to enjoy tasty dishes from this valuable seafood.
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