Stuffed squid

Stuffed squid is a very tasty and easy to prepare dish. Seafood products have long ceased to be considered rare delicacies and squid meat is a common product that everyone has tried. Typically, squid is used in appetizers and salads; we offer 10 simple recipes for stuffed squid that can be served as full-fledged hot dishes.

Stuffed squid with mushrooms, egg and cheese

Any filling can always be varied. In this recipe, we will use mushrooms, boiled eggs and cheese in the filling of stuffed squid.

1. 
   How to cook delicious stuffed squid? Boil the eggs hard, wait until they cool, peel and finely chop.
2. 
   Defrost the squid, pour boiling water over it and leave to cool.
3. 
   Any mushrooms will do, you can use champignons. Finely chop the mushrooms and onions and fry in a frying pan until golden brown.
4. 
   Grate the cheese on a medium or fine grater.
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   For the filling, mix eggs, cheese, mushrooms, onions, finely chopped dill, season with sour cream, add salt and spices to taste.
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   Stuff the squid carcasses with the prepared filling, secure the edges with a toothpick so that the filling does not fall out.
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   Grease a baking dish with oil and place the squid on it, bake at 180 degrees for 25-30 minutes, 7-10 minutes before cooking, you can sprinkle the squid with cheese.

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Delicious squid stuffed with mushrooms in the oven

If you want to please your loved ones with a tasty and unusual dish, prepare squid stuffed with mushrooms. This dish is rich in proteins, which makes it very healthy.

Ingredients:

• Cleaned squid carcasses – 4-6 pcs.
• Mushrooms – 250-300 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Sunflower oil – 1 tbsp.
• Kefir – 2 tbsp.
• Spices - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Defrost the squid carcasses, pour boiling water over them and leave to cool.

2. For the filling you can use both champignons and any other wild mushrooms. Grate the carrots on a medium grater, cut the onion into half rings. Pour a little sunflower oil into the frying pan, first fry the onion until translucent, then add mushrooms to it, fry until the moisture evaporates, then add carrots, add salt and fry for another 5-7 minutes. Transfer the filling to a bowl, add spices, season with kefir, mix well.

3.Fill the squids with filling, grease the top with a small amount of sunflower oil, sprinkle with spices, open edges can be secured with toothpicks.

4. Place a sheet of foil on a baking sheet, grease with oil and lay out the squid, cover with a second sheet of foil on top and connect the edges. Bake in the oven for 20-30 minutes at 180 degrees. The dish can be served hot with a side dish or chilled as a snack.

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Squid stuffed with rice in the oven

Squid stuffed with rice in the oven is a quick and very nutritious dish. This is the case when the side dish does not need to be cooked separately.

Ingredients:

• Cleaned squid carcasses – 6 pcs.
• White rice – 150 gr.
• Eggs – 1 pc.
• Sour cream – 200 gr.
• Greenery - for decoration.
• Spices - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Prepare the filling. Rice must be boiled in salted water and washed so that it is crumbly. Finely chop the greens (parsley or dill, to taste) and mix with rice. Break one egg into the rice, add spices and mix. The filling is ready. For the sauce, dilute the sour cream with water 2 to 1, add spices to taste.2. Pour boiling water over the squid carcasses, cool, fill them tightly with filling, and place them in a deep form. Pour sour cream sauce over the squid.

3. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and set the pan for 25-30 minutes. Stuffed squids are best served warm with fresh vegetables.

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A simple and delicious recipe for squid with rice and mushrooms

Since squids themselves do not require long cooking, the filling for them should be almost ready. Boiled rice and champignons are excellent in such cases. In addition, you will get a fairly satisfying dish.

Ingredients:

• Cleaned squid carcasses – 4-6 pcs.
• Rice – 250 gr.
• Champignons – 200-300 gr.
• Sour cream or mayonnaise – 3-4 tbsp.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Spices - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.
• Sunflower oil – 1-2 tbsp.

Cooking process:

1. First, cook the rice, rinse it with cold water so that it turns out crumbly.

2. Peel the onion and cut into small cubes. We also chop the champignons. In a frying pan in a small amount of sunflower oil, first fry the onion until golden brown, then add the champignons to it and fry for another 15-20 minutes until all the moisture has evaporated.

3. For the filling, mix rice, onions, mushrooms, add sour cream or mayonnaise at your discretion, add salt and season.

4. Pour boiling water over the cleaned squid carcasses. Using a tablespoon, fill the squid with the filling, leaving a little free space, as the squid may shrink in size during cooking.

5. Grease a baking sheet with sunflower oil and place squid on it, grease them with sour cream or mayonnaise on top. Place the dish in the oven for 20-25 minutes, bake at 200 degrees. Before serving, stuffed squid can be cut into smaller portions.

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Step-by-step recipe for cooking squid with vegetables

Vegetables also go well with squid meat. The filling will be juicy, and the squid itself will be very tender.

Ingredients:

• Cleaned squid carcasses – 4 pcs.
• Tomato – 2 pcs.
• Bell pepper – 1 pc.
• Zucchini – ½ pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Corn – 50 gr.
• Onion – 1/2 pcs.
• Garlic – 2 cloves
• Spices - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.
• Cream – 100 gr.
• Sour cream – 50 gr.
• Sunflower oil – 1-2 tbsp.
• Green dill.

Cooking process:

1. Wash the vegetables and cut them into small cubes.For this recipe we use frozen corn. Place the vegetables in a heated frying pan and fry a little over high heat, stirring constantly. Reduce the heat, cover with a lid and leave the vegetables to simmer until fully cooked. 5 minutes before readiness, add salt, season and add chopped garlic.

2. Place the squid in boiling water, cook for 5 minutes, remove and leave to cool.

3. Stuff the squid carcasses with vegetable filling, while trying to strain out excess moisture with a spoon. We secure the edges with toothpicks.

4. Prepare the sauce. In a deep frying pan, fry chopped garlic in sunflower oil, add sour cream, cream, ground pepper and finely chopped tomato, simmer for no more than 5 minutes.

5. Place stuffed squid in the sauce in a frying pan, simmer for 5 minutes over medium heat, sprinkle with finely chopped dill and leave covered for another 5 minutes.

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Squid stuffed with crab sticks

If you want to surprise your guests with an original but easy-to-prepare appetizer, pay attention to recipes with stuffed squid. We will use crab sticks as a filling; we will get a fairly light dish.

Ingredients:

• Crab sticks – 150 gr.
• Cleaned squid carcasses – 4-6 pcs.
• Sour cream (mayonnaise or kefir) – 1-2 tbsp.
• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Green onions - a small bunch.
• Garlic – 1 clove.
• Ground pepper - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Clean the squid carcasses and place them in boiling salted water and cook for 3-5 minutes until fully cooked. Then we take them out and leave them to cool.

2. Boil the eggs hard, cool, remove the shell, grate or finely chop. Cut the green onion feathers into thin rings. Grind the garlic using a press or three on a fine grater.Cut crab sticks into small cubes.

3. Mix crab sticks, green onions, eggs, garlic, season with spices, add sour cream or, at your discretion, kefir or mayonnaise, the filling should not turn out liquid.

4. Fill the squid carcasses tightly with the filling and leave in the refrigerator so that the filling becomes denser. Cut the squid into wide slices diagonally, place on a plate and serve.

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Delicious squid stewed in tomato sauce

A properly selected sauce can complement a dish and give it bright notes. In our case, tomato sauce goes well with stuffed squid.

Ingredients:

• Cleaned squid carcasses – 4-6 pcs.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Cheese – 70 gr.
• Parsley – 20 gr.
• Tomato – 3-4 pcs.
• Breadcrumbs – 50-70 gr.
• Spices - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.
• Garlic – 1 clove.
• White wine – 50 ml.
• Sunflower or olive oil – 2-3 tbsp.

Cooking process:

1. Defrost the squid carcasses, clean, rinse and pour boiling water over them.

2. Finely chop the parsley, pass the garlic through a press, and grate the cheese on a fine grater. For the filling, in a separate bowl, mix cheese, breadcrumbs, chopped garlic, half a teaspoon each of salt and black pepper, parsley, and break one egg. Pour in one tablespoon of sunflower or olive oil and mix thoroughly again.

3. Before preparing the sauce, you need to peel the tomatoes. To do this, we make cross-shaped cuts on the tomatoes, dip the tomatoes in boiling water for 10-15 seconds and then the skin is easily removed. Cut the peeled tomatoes into small cubes and place them in a heated frying pan, fry for 10 minutes, stirring constantly, add salt 5 minutes before readiness and, if desired, add 50 ml of white wine.

4.Fill the squid carcasses loosely with the filling, close the edges of the carcasses with wooden skewers and place them in a frying pan with tomato sauce. Simmer over low heat for 10-15 minutes, turn the squid over to the other side and leave covered on the stove for another 10 minutes. Fried stuffed squid can be sprinkled with lemon juice and served with fresh vegetables.

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How to cook squid stuffed with shrimp?

You can remind yourself of hot countries and the sea by having a dinner with seafood dishes. Try a simple and delicious recipe for shrimp stuffed squid.

Ingredients:

• Cleaned squid carcasses – 4 pcs.
• Peeled shrimp – 250 gr.
• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Cheese – 50 gr.
• Sour cream/mayonnaise – 1 tbsp.
• Onion – ½ pc.
• Spices - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.
• Parsley – 1 small bunch.
• Flour – 50 gr.
• Sunflower oil – 4-5 tbsp.

Cooking process:

1. Pour boiling water over pre-cleaned squid carcasses and leave to cool.

2. Peel the hard-boiled eggs and grate them or chop them with a knife. Grate the cheese. Finely chop the parsley.

3. Cut the onion into small cubes and fry until translucent in sunflower oil. We also place the shrimp in a heated frying pan and fry a little separately from the onion.

4. Mix all the ingredients, parsley, shrimp, eggs, sour cream or mayonnaise, onion, cheese, salt and season with spices.

5. Fill the squid carcasses with the prepared filling and secure the edges with toothpicks.

6. Pour a little oil into a heated frying pan, dip the squid in flour and fry on both sides until golden brown. This must be done very quickly so that the squid meat does not become tough.Squid stuffed with shrimp will go well with pasta.

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A simple and tasty recipe for making squid with minced meat

It’s worth trying once to understand that seafood and meat can be combined. Here, white meat is perfect for stuffing stuffed squid, then your dish will not be greasy.

Ingredients:

• Cleaned squid carcasses – 4-5 pcs.
• Minced white meat – 150-200 gr.
• Breadcrumbs – 50 gr.
• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Garlic – 1 clove.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Sunflower oil – 2-3 tbsp.
• Spices (ground black pepper, paprika) - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Place the cleaned squid carcasses into boiling water and cook for 3-4 minutes.

2. Peel and grate the pre-boiled eggs.

3. Wash and peel the onions and carrots, finely grate the carrots and finely chop the onion. Fry the onions and carrots in a small amount of sunflower oil, then add the minced meat and chopped garlic to the pan, mix and fry until fully cooked.

4. Mix minced meat, eggs, breadcrumbs, salt and add spices to taste.

5. Stuff the squid carcasses with the prepared filling and secure the edges with wooden skewers. Fry the squid on all sides in a frying pan. As a side dish for stuffed squid, a salad of fresh vegetables seasoned with soy sauce is suitable.

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Squid stuffed with rice and bacon

Squid stuffed with rice and bacon, a hearty dish that can diversify your daily lunch menu.

Ingredients:

• Cleaned squid carcasses – 3-4 pcs.
• Rice – 70-100 gr.
• Bacon – 50-80 gr.
• Onion – ½ pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Tomatoes – 2-3 pcs.
• Cheese – 100 gr.
• Garlic – 1-2 cloves.
• Spices - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.
• Parsley – 1 small bunch.
• Sunflower oil – 2-3 tbsp.

Cooking process:

1. Clean the squid carcasses and place them in boiling water for 3-5 minutes, cool.

2. Cut the bacon into thin strips, fry in a frying pan, add onion, carrots cut into strips and chopped garlic, fry everything together until fully cooked.

3. Cook the rice in salted water and rinse with cold water.

4. Mix rice, bacon, onion, carrots, chopped parsley and grated cheese in a bowl - the filling is ready.

5. Fill the squid carcasses with the filling and secure the edges with wooden toothpicks. Fry the stuffed squid on all sides in a frying pan.

6. Prepare the sauce, fry the chopped tomatoes in a frying pan, add salt and seasonings to taste, sprinkle with chopped parsley, stir, wait until the sauce reaches a thick consistency and turn off the heat. Serve the finished stuffed squids hot with tomato sauce.

Bon appetit!