Are you willing to try some easy seafood snacks at home?
Let us introduce you to the Calamari rings recipe!
What are calamari rings?
If you are fond of seafood like fish, prawns, and squid then you must try out making the calamari rings at home. A squid is covered by a thin crust of golden coating. These are cooked by frying. Just like prawns are served with the soaps or as appetizers for a meal. This recipe is often used as an appetizer and for the soups.
The steps for preparing this are not so lengthy, or time taking. These are not only available at restaurants. You can prepare them at home with minimalistic ingredients and unchallenging procedures. People first tasted this dish in 1980 in the United States. People of southern Europe primarily eat this dish often.
What do they look like?
The dish contains squids. Which are under the seafood category. Some people cook octopus instead of using squids. They appear pearl white in their look. And taste a bit sweet. When you hold them before cooking you will feel a soft and jelly-type texture.
People like their taste because they are different in flavors from fish. All of the squids are not only in white color but they are in blackish tones of grey and dark greys etc.
Where can you find the squids?
As they are in the category of seafood. Then you can purchase directly from the shops near the sea. Where people are lively catching them daily.
Or you can visit mega marts where they have huge kinds of seafood. This specie is not so common, unlike the fish. Most of the stores keep them already clean for the ease of their customers to readily cook them.
The dish is most of the time used as the appetizer for the main dish. Because it is light in calories, and it doesn’t fill up the stomach much. So people like to have lightweight food in the appetizers.
Recipe of calamari rings at home
Ingredients
- Squid 1 bowl
- Buttermilk a cup
- All-purpose flour a cup
- Salt for taste
- Paprika powder half teaspoon
- Black pepper powder with a pinch of a teaspoon
- Garlic powder a pinch teaspoon
- Oil to fry them
- Some chopped parsley
Procedure
- In a bowl, put the sliced squid pieces
- Then add all of the buttermilk to them so that they fully dip in the bowl
- Put them in a cooling place like in a refrigerator for an hour
- Afterward, take them out of it
- Heat the oil in the pan
- In another container, add all-purpose flour, paprika powder, some salt, garlic powder, and black pepper powder
- Place each piece of squid in the dry mixture of ingredients
- Then do this step two times
- Next, put them in the oil
- When they appear a golden color then put them on a plate
- For presentation, sprinkle the remaining salt and pepper with parsley on them
Nutritious value
The dish itself is full of calories. And high content of protein.
- You will get 23 grams of carbohydrates from this dish
- Also, the protein content will be equivalent to 25 grams
- Then you will gain 3 grams of sugar
Serve the dish as it is. And don’t warm it again and again in a microwave. As the squids will become hard and elastic type. They will become hard and would be difficult to chew. Further, you can have them with different sauces or dips like chili sauce and ketchup. Then, you can even sprinkle chopped parsley or other herbs for garnishing purposes. The buttermilk adds crispiness to the coating of the dish. The richness of flavors and nutritious value will make it taste superb.
