Today, Chipirones! Have you tried them? If not, do not worry that today we are going to talk in a very simple and delicious way to cook them, a recipe for chipirones in sauce that we love . Welcome to Paulina cuisine ?
Maybe for many it is an ingredient that they never heard from speaking but now we are going to know everything about him ... What is a chipirón and how to use it in the kitchen? What is the difference between chipirones and squid ? How to clean them? . Easy, little by little and grabbing the data that serves us the most, as always. Are we ready?
In the end we leave you the chipirone recipe in sauce . Stay because they will love a lot the day they added this recipe to their lives.
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About the chipirones in sauce and other ways to cook it
What are chipirones?
In a nutshell we can say that it is a kind of squid but smaller , after all and beyond confusion, it is the same animal . In a little more "scientific" words we can say that chipirones are a type of mollusk , this group of animals with soft and invertebrate body?
Chipirones are characterized by having large and triangular fins that occupy more than half of their body.
? Around the mouth they have eight arms with windy , two tentacles and a jaw with a curved peak shape . In general, this type of squid can measure up to 60 cm maximum , they are always smaller than this. Of course, we are going to take advantage of this feature and make some very beautiful dishes with them.
How to clean chipirones correctly
It is very important to be careful in this process to avoid poisoning . To correctly clean a chipirón we will follow these 5 steps:
- Grab the head with one hand and the body with the other, separate these parts. We will do this movement firmly, but carefully. When the head is separated, the visors and the sack of ink should be carried.
- Throughout your body we will find a cartilage, we have to grab this from one end and pull it out carefully it comes out completely; If we started this with the fingers.
- Now we continue to peel the body, this is a simple step, the skin emerges alone and comes out like a rubber glove. We discard it and rinse the body to remove any impurity that could have stuck.
- Always working under the jet of cold water and we are helping ourselves with this.
- Even when clean, but whole squids; It should be taken care that the membrane has been well detached and if they are remains, take them out.
ATTENTION HERE: When we cook this type of shellfish we must bear in mind that if we freeze it in raw it loses a lot of flavor when we defrost it. So here is when we recommend cooking the chipirones and then freezing them.
Classic Chipirones Recipe on its ink
We did not want to stop talking about this recipe, the chipins in their ink , maybe it is a bit more complicated than the chipins in sauce, although they do not lose their magic and if they crave they can leave a very gourmet dish from here.
We start by placing olive oil at the base of a pot. We chop an onion and a clove of garlic, saute this for 5 minutes and then add 1 glass of white wine. We cook for 10 minutes and add ½ kg of chipirones, exit to taste, cover with water and wait. This is cooked for 15 minutes and then we took the seafood from the pot, leaving only the juices.
Now, we almost ended. The inks are placed in the pot and mix all this. We mix the sauce with the chipirones again, cook 10 more minutes and now. From the garrisons for this dish we speak on another occasion.
Before going out to buy the chipirones
Squid is a food of high nutritional value, very protein and gives us excellent digestion . All very nice, but we can also get some diseases if we do not take care of us when consuming it.
That's why! When we go to a fish market to buy them we always have to choose those who look cooler, with white, firm and smell. With all this in mind, we are already ready and ready. Then get to work ... or the pot!
Salsa chipirone recipe
Ingredients
- 400 gr. of clean chipirones
- 1 medium onion
- 1 garlic cloves
- Crushed tomatoes
- ½ glass of white wine
- Olive oil
- Salt
How to make chipirones in sauce
- Chop the garlic and onion in small pieces.
- Place a deep pan on the fire with olive oil at the base. When it is hot, incorporate the garlic and remove taking care that they do not burn. Then add the onions. Cook for 5 minutes the onion until transparent.
- Add all chipirones to the pot and remove. Cook until they change color, at that time add the wine and mix a little waiting a little until alcohol evaporates.
- Add two tablespoons of tomato sauce, remove, cover the pot and cook for 15 minutes. Time to try a little and if necessary add salt.
- Turn off the fire and serve the chipirones in sauce.
