Pasta with squid in cream sauce

Surprisingly tender and very tasty dish! This pasta in cream sauce is worthy of any festive table. You can serve this dish in a very original way if you put tomatoes and squid rings on a dish in a circle right on the spaghetti. It will turn out not only delicious, but also very beautiful.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 32 % 10 g
Fats 23 % 7 g
Carbohydrates 45 % 14 g
175 kcal
GI: 13 / 87 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to cook pasta with squid? Prepare the necessary ingredients. Any pasta is suitable for pasta: long (spaghetti, fettuccini) or medium (penne, farfalle, fusili, penne, etc.). I settled on spaghetti. Tomatoes can use small cherry or larger plum-shaped ones.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Cut plum–shaped tomatoes into thick circles, cherry - in half.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Peel the raw squid from the skin and entrails and cut into rings. Cut the tails of the squid into strips too. If you use frozen squid, first defrost them. Dry the prepared squid so that the water, once in the boiling oil, does not start shooting.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Peel and finely chop the garlic. If desired, you can pass the garlic through the press.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Wash the parsley, dry it and chop it finely.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan, put the garlic, followed by the chopped squid. Fry everything together, stirring, for a couple of minutes over medium heat. If you fry longer, the squid will become rubbery and tasteless, so as soon as the squid takes on a round shape, remove the pan from the heat.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    In a saucepan in a large amount of salted water, boil the spaghetti until al dente. Put the finished pasta in a colander and let the water drain.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Put the spaghetti in the pan with the squid. Pour in the cream, add tomatoes, herbs.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Mix everything well and gently.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Cover the pan with a lid and simmer for another 5 minutes. At the end, add salt and pepper to taste.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Arrange the finished pasta on plates, if desired, sprinkle with grated cheese and chopped herbs and serve to the table. Bon appetit!

Cream for this recipe can be of any fat content, but remember that the higher the percentage of fat content of the products you use, the higher the calorie content of the dish will be.

Choose juicy tomatoes, but dense. Soft fruits do not keep their shape well, in the process of slicing and cooking they will spread into a shapeless mass and spoil the appearance of the dish.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Buttermilk - 36   kcal/100g
  • Cream of 20% fat content - 300   kcal/100g
  • Cream of 10% fat content - 120   kcal/100g
  • Cream - 300   kcal/100g
  • Fried squid - 175   kcal/100g
  • Boiled squid - 110   kcal/100g
  • Squid fresh - 74   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Parsley greens - 45   kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913   kcal/100g
  • Spaghetti - 338   kcal/100g

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