Pickled squid - a simple but very tasty snack 🦑

Kitchen appliances and utensils: stove, pan, cutting board, knife, bowl, cling film, plate for serving dishes.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. If your squid is frozen, you must defrost them before cooking. Next, we clean and wash the carcasses.
   
2. We put a pot of water on the fire and salt well. Squids are boiled in boiling water. As soon as the water boils, hold them for a minute and a half or two. The main condition is not to digest. Otherwise they will be tough.
   
3. We take the finished squids out of boiling water with a slotted spoon, put on a plate and let cool.
   
4. At this time, we take a little salt to taste (an incomplete teaspoon) and pour into a bowl, add sugar, pepper, allspice, Italian herbs, vinegar and vegetable oil.
   
5. The resulting mixture must be mixed well. The marinade is ready.
   
6. When the squid has cooled, cut them into thin rings or half rings, if desired.
   
7. Put the squid into a bowl. Then add a bay leaf to them.
   
8. Stir the marinade with a spoon and fill it with chopped squid.
   
9. All is well and gently mixed and covered with cling film or a plate. We send to the refrigerator for at least 2 hours. The longer the dish will stand in the refrigerator and marinate, the tastier it will be. You can even leave all night.
   
10. Before serving, add finely chopped fresh dill and mix well. Enjoy your meal!
    

Cooking options

There are other cooking options for a cold appetizer such as pickled squid. To your taste, you can experiment with the composition of the ingredients:

• You can add lemon juice instead of vinegar.
• You can take water and quite a bit of vegetable oil.
• Vinegar is sometimes replaced with lemon juice.
• Korean-style pickled squids are cooked with carrots, onions, and garlic.
• From spices you can add "Provencal herbs", paprika, ground ginger, mustard seeds, chili, coriander, oregano, garlic.
• You can use apple or wine vinegar.
• Soy sauce is sometimes used.
• Greens can be decorated with lettuce, cilantro, parsley or green onions.

Video recipe

We offer you a video recipe for making an excellent appetizer - pickled squid. The author of the video clearly explains and clearly demonstrates how easy and simple it is to prepare such a dish.