How to Make Fried Squid with Fries

One of the most liked meals is fried squid, which is always available in practically all of the neighborhood eateries. They are a favorite since it’s difficult to resist their delicious, crisp taste, and it seems like they are simple to keep. But even with this meal, there are those minor tricks to make it genuinely great, as I think you have at least once seen squid that was subpar.

The recipe I’m about to provide has been tested numerous times, and I think you’ll enjoy it if you give it a shot. It is unique in that I use breadcrumbs in addition to flour when I roll the squid, giving it a fantastic crunch. However, and this is also extremely significant, the interior will continue to be flawlessly soft, exactly as squid should be after being fried.

You may also purchase previously cleaned squid to speed up the preparation procedure. However, if you have purchased uncleaned ones, you may find a full description of the entire process of how to prepare them for frying yourself in the video and the table with the technique below. Squid may also be perfectly prepared by doing a variety of other small things, such as combining the frying ingredients in a sealed container. You will obtain evenly dispersed breadcrumbs and flour in this manner!

Every fried squid must, of course, be served with homemade tartar sauce. French fries are often served as a side dish and have grown to be essential to this dish, so this time I made it that way. But chard with boiled potatoes, which I also frequently make with this recipe, will work fine if you want a somewhat lighter version in which nothing is fried.

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Fried Squid with Fries

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By queensrecipes

Prep Time: 25 minutes – Cooking Time: 35 minutes – Total Time: 1 hour

Ingredients

• 500 ml of oil for frying
• 1 kg of squid
• 150 g of bread crumbs
• 150 g of plain flour
• 3 large potatoes
• Salt to taste
• Tartar Sauce:
• 100 g of mayonnaise
• 150 g of sour cream
• 2 large pickles
• 3 cloves of garlic
• Fresh parsley
• Lemon juice
• Salt and Pepper to taste

Instructions

1

Peel the potatoes put them in water and cut them into sticks for French fries

2

Transfer the sliced ​​potatoes to a clean cloth to absorb as much liquid as possible

3

Make tartar sauce

4

Pour mayonnaise into a bowl and add sour cream

5

Cut the pickles into small cubes and put them in the bowl

6

Clean the garlic, cut it finely, and put it in a bowl

7

Chop the washed parsley as finely as possible and also add it to the bowl

8

Squeeze lemon juice and add it to taste

9

Add salt and pepper and mix everything well

10

Put in the fridge until serving

11

Clean the squid in the following way: remove the legs with the guts from the body of the squid, separate the guts and remove the yellowish round and hard part from the middle of the leg

12

Remove the transparent oblong bone from the squid's body and remove as much of the membrane as possible from the outside

13

Rinse the cleaned squid with water and drain

14

Cut the squid bodies into rings, then transfer them together with the arms to a clean cloth and dry them

15

In a deep container with a lid, mix the flour and crumbs

16

Add the squid rings and arms, close the lid, and shake well so that the squid receives the flour and crumbs from all sides

17

Then heat the oil

18

First, fry the French fries until golden yellow and drain when taking them out

19

Then insert the rings and arms and fry them for 2 minutes

20

Drain them and take them out on a plate, then add a little salt

21

Serve with tartar sauce