Salad with squid, cheese, egg, and cucumber
Simple, made from everyday ingredients — for holidays and weeknights alike! Salad with squid, cheese, egg, and cucumber is one of the simplest and most affordable around. It's very easy to make. Juicy and appetizing, it disappears as fast as it comes together. You can layer the ingredients or just toss everything in a bowl!
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make a salad with squid, cheese, egg, and cucumber? Gather the ingredients. You can use any cheese to taste: hard, semi-hard, or processed.
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Step 2:
Thaw the squid ahead of time and clean it inside and out. Peel the thin, clear membrane off the squid body. Drop the squid into boiling salted water and bring it back to a boil. Cook the squid over moderate heat for about 1 minute. Take it out of the water in time so it doesn't turn rubbery.
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Step 3:
Cool the cooked squid and cut it into thin strips.
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Step 4:
Peel the red onion and cut it into small cubes. To take the harsh edge off the onion, pour boiling water over it and let it cool. Drain the water.
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Step 5:
Boil the eggs. How do you hard-boil eggs? To keep them from cracking, put them in cold water and set them over low heat. Boil the eggs for 9 minutes after the water comes to a boil, then cover them with cold water to cool. The sudden temperature change makes the shells peel more easily. Set aside two egg yolks for the top layer of the salad. Cut the rest of the eggs into strips.
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Step 6:
Wash and dry the cucumbers. Trim off the ends. If the skin isn't tough, damaged, or bitter, there's no need to peel it. Cut the cucumbers into strips.
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Step 7:
Grate the hard cheese on a coarse grater.
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Step 8:
You can use a plating ring to build the salad. Set it on a flat plate. Lay the prepared squid on the bottom and press it down lightly.
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Step 9:
Sprinkle the red onion over the squid.
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Step 10:
Spread mayonnaise over this layer.
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Step 11:
Then add the cucumbers. Smooth out and gently press down each layer of the salad.
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Step 12:
Another crosshatch of mayonnaise.
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Step 13:
Lay the sliced eggs on the cucumbers and mayonnaise on top.
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Step 14:
The next layer is grated cheese.
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Step 15:
Cover the cheese layer with a crosshatch of mayonnaise.
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Step 16:
Finish the salad with the egg yolks grated on a fine grater. Refrigerate the salad for 1 hour to let it set.
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Step 17:
Before serving, lift off the ring and garnish the salad however you like.
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Step 18:
Enjoy!
- It's best to make the mayonnaise yourself. It will be tastier and healthier. See some interesting homemade mayonnaise recipes here. You can also use not just mayonnaise as a dressing but sour cream or plain yogurt. Use them on their own, or mix them with mayonnaise in any ratio you like — that lowers the calorie count of the dish.
- The salad looks neat and pretty if you cut all the ingredients into pieces of the same size and shape (cubes or strips, for example).
- Make salads only from fully chilled ingredients. A salad made from warm ones can spoil quickly.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Fresh cucumbers - 15 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 157 kcal/100g
- Egg white - 45 kcal/100g
- Egg powder - 542 kcal/100g
- Egg yolk - 352 kcal/100g
- Ostrich egg - 118 kcal/100g
- Sweet pepper - 27 kcal/100g
- Fried squid - 175 kcal/100g
- Boiled squid - 110 kcal/100g
- Fresh squid - 74 kcal/100g
- Dutch cheese - 352 kcal/100g
- Swiss cheese - 335 kcal/100g
- Russian cheese - 366 kcal/100g
- Kostroma cheese - 345 kcal/100g
- Yaroslavsky cheese - 361 kcal/100g
- Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356 kcal/100g
- Soviet cheese - 400 kcal/100g
- Cheese 'steppe' - 362 kcal/100g
- Uglich cheese - 347 kcal/100g
- Poshekhonsky cheese - 350 kcal/100g
- Lambert cheese - 377 kcal/100g
- Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400 kcal/100g
- Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363 kcal/100g
- Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395 kcal/100g
- Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420 kcal/100g
- Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356 kcal/100g
- Aiadeus cheese - 364 kcal/100g
- Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360 kcal/100g
- Lo spalmino cheese - 61 kcal/100g
- Cheese 'etorki' (sheep, hard) - 401 kcal/100g
- White cheese - 100 kcal/100g
- Fat yellow cheese - 260 kcal/100g
- Altai cheese - 355 kcal/100g
- Kaunas cheese - 355 kcal/100g
- Latvian cheese - 316 kcal/100g
- Limburger cheese - 327 kcal/100g
- Lithuanian cheese - 250 kcal/100g
- Lake cheese - 350 kcal/100g
- Gruyere cheese - 396 kcal/100g
- Parsley greens - 45 kcal/100g
- Salad mayonnaise of 50% fat content - 502 kcal/100g
- Light mayonnaise - 260 kcal/100g
- Provencal Mayonnaise - 624 kcal/100g
- Provencal mayonnaise - 627 kcal/100g
- Table mayonnaise - 627 kcal/100g
- Olives - 166 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 80 kcal/100g
- Lettuce leaves - 12 kcal/100g
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