Salad with pickled squid and onion

Delicious, fast and simple, from ordinary products! Salad with pickled squid and onion is a recipe for a simple cold snack. This salad will be a great addition to a festive or casual dinner. Thanks to a short heat treatment, the squid remains very soft.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 62 % 13 g
Fats 24 % 5 g
Carbohydrates 14 % 3 g
108 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 2 hours
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make a salad with pickled squid and onions? Prepare the products. Squid is usually sold frozen, pre-defrost it in a natural way. You can take the usual onion or salad red, I like salad more. Any vegetable oil will do, I took olive oil. Prepare a small saucepan, pour water into it and put it to heat on the fire.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Peel the squid from the skin and remove the insides. Rinse each carcass under cold running water. As soon as the water in the pot boils, add the bay leaf to it. Lower the squid carcass into boiling water for 30-40 seconds from the moment of boiling, then take it out, putting it in a plate. Squid do not need to cook for a long time — they can become rubbery. As soon as the water boils again, boil another carcass as well. Allow the squid to cool completely.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Cut the cooled squid carcasses into long strips and put them in a deep bowl.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Peel the onion and cut it into half rings. Add the chopped onion to the squid.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Add salt to taste, vinegar to the bowl and pour in vegetable or olive oil. Mix the salad thoroughly and put it to marinate for a couple of hours in the refrigerator. During this time, I would also recommend mixing the salad several times so that all the ingredients are soaked evenly.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Serve the finished salad chilled. It will be a great addition to many dishes — potatoes, rice, vegetables. Enjoy your meal!

Salad appetizer of pickled squid and onion turns out very tasty. It will really brighten up the most ordinary dinner. Although there are only two ingredients in this salad, they complement each other perfectly. Tender soft squid (thanks to fast cooking) and crispy fragrant onion combine into a delicious piquant duet. The light marinade makes this mixture very unusual, moderately insular. This salad can be served on the table as a snack for guests or household.

The salad will look nice and neat if you cut all the ingredients into pieces of the same size and shape (for example, cubes).

Vinegar in recipes, unless otherwise specified by the author, is added by default at a concentration of 9%.

How to choose the perfect pan for soup, porridge or pickling cucumbers read the article about pots.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Bay leaf - 313   kcal/100g
  • Wine vinegar (3%) - 9   kcal/100g
  • Vinegar 9% - 11   kcal/100g
  • Balsamic vinegar - 88   kcal/100g
  • Apple vinegar - 14   kcal/100g
  • Vinegar - 11   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913   kcal/100g
  • Squid carcass - 96   kcal/100g

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