Squid in ink

Squid in its ink with white rice.

The squid in its ink is a dish made with small pieces of squid (including tentacles) cooked in its own ink. As a rule, this dish requires time to be processed and therefore, in Spain, it is often found canned food available at any supermarket. characteristics

The recipe is made with squid fried in a frying pan in a mixture of various vegetables. Adding the squid ink gives it a characteristic black color. At the time of serving is usually accompanied by rice (rice with squid in its ink) and black sauce is usually made slightly spicy to make it possible to enhance the flavors of the whole. It can sometimes be found as an appetizer. The canned variant that is offered in can is usually submerged in abundant olive oil.

Another very simple recipe: Buy the large squid (always fresh with your inks), clean them by removing their ink without breaking them, reserve the inks, cut them into pieces of approximately 2x2 cm. water (cover them) and a pinch of salt. Once cooked drain reserving the cooking water. Sauté in a casserole with a little olive oil, onion and when it is poached add a glass of the water of the cooking with the inks dissolved in the same and to let boil until the onion is well soft, add water of the cooking if it is needs to. Then to thicken a little sauce add one or two slices of toasted bread (biscote) and let it boil for another time, mash with a Chinese on top of the squid that we have already drained in a clay pot and leave everything along with simmer 15 minutes.

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