We are preparing a new delicious seafood salad for the holiday. Tender squid goes well with fried champignons. If you supplement this mixture with walnuts and hard cheese, you will get an original dish with bright flavors. This salad will be an excellent decoration for the holiday table.

Another advantage of this recipe is that the salad with squid, champignons and walnuts is very easy to prepare and does not require much preparation time. It can be served either in one large salad bowl or in portions using a cooking ring, wide glasses, bowls or small bowls. If you want to pleasantly surprise your guests and please your loved ones, be sure to prepare the “Kiev” salad with squid, fried mushrooms and nuts.

Ingredients

• 500 g squid
• 300 g fresh champignons
• 100 g hard cheese
• 1 onion
• 70 g walnut kernels
• 1 clove of garlic
• 50 ml vegetable oil
• 50-70 g mayonnaise
• 1 bay leaf
• 2-3 peas of black allspice
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• fresh herbs for garnish

Cooking step by step

Peel the onion and cut into small cubes. Place the chopped onion in a deep frying pan with heated vegetable oil. Stirring occasionally, sauté the vegetables over low heat until light golden brown.

Wash the fresh champignons and clean them if necessary. Cut the mushrooms in half and cut them into slices of medium thickness. Add chopped champignons to the onions. Stir and continue frying the ingredients together until the mushrooms are ready.

At the end of cooking, salt the champignons fried with onions and season with ground black pepper to taste. Let the ingredients cool to room temperature.

How to cook squid for salad

Wash the squid, remove the skin and entrails, and boil in boiling water for 2 minutes. To make the seafood aromatic, add bay leaf and a few peas of black allspice to the water. Then drain the water from the squids and leave them until they cool completely.

Cut the seafood into strips that have cooled to room temperature and place in a deep salad bowl. Add champignons fried with onions to the boiled squid.

Finely chop the walnut kernels and add half of the nuts to the salad (leave the remaining nuts for decoration).

Grind the hard cheese on a coarse grater and add to the rest of the ingredients.

Season the salad with a small amount of mayonnaise. For flavor, add a clove of garlic passed through a press.

Squids and nuts belong to the category of protein products. You can safely combine them with each other and prepare a wide variety of dishes. For example, here is such a wonderful salad with a delicate taste of cheese and the aroma of walnuts. This salad, quite easy to prepare and rich in flavor, will be an excellent decoration for a feast, including a festive one.

INGREDIENTS:
500 g squid,
70 grams of walnuts,
300 grams of champignons,
1 small onion
100 grams of hard cheese,
1-2 cloves of garlic,
mayonnaise,
salt pepper

PREPARATION:
First you need to prepare the squid. For this:
1. Thaw squid carcasses, remove film, remove entrails and cartilaginous plate.
2. Then boil the squid by lowering them into boiling water and, once it boils, cook for another 4-5 minutes.
3. Remove the squid from the broth, cool and cut them into strips.
4. Peel and finely chop the onion
5. Cut the mushrooms into slices.
6. Fry onions and mushrooms in vegetable oil until tender, add salt and pepper to taste.
7. Chop the nuts.
8. Grate the cheese on a fine grater
9. Grate the garlic on a fine grater or pass through a press
10. Combine all ingredients, setting aside some nuts for decoration.
11. Season the salad with mayonnaise. Mix.
12. Sprinkle the finished salad with squid and walnuts with chopped walnuts and garnish with herbs.

Bon appetit!

Many people like the combination of tender squid and buttery walnuts.

It can be used especially advantageously in preparing festive squid salads with walnuts. You can also add mushrooms and cheese.

And now you have an unusual, tasty and satisfying salad with squid and nuts on your New Year’s table, which will pleasantly surprise your guests.

This seafood appetizer can be prepared at normal times, if you take canned squid in its own juice, it will not be so expensive.

Salad with squid and nuts photo

Salad with squid, mushrooms and walnuts

The classic recipe includes:

• 500 g squid or 3 pieces or 2 jars
• 300 g fresh champignons
• 1 onion
• 70 g walnuts
• 100 g hard cheese
• clove of garlic
• mayonnaise
• greens for decoration

How to make squid salad:

1. Peel fresh squid, remove the insides if not gutted, and place in boiling, lightly salted water. Cook for 1 minute. Drain in a colander and rinse with cold water.

2. Finely chop the onion and mushrooms, fry until tender, add salt to taste.

3. Grind the nuts in a blender or on a coarse grater. Mix half with mushrooms, leave the rest for decoration.

4. Grate the cheese on a fine grater and add to the main products.

5. Cut the cooled squid into strips and place in the salad.

6. Grate the garlic on a fine grater and mix with mayonnaise. Season the salad with squid, nuts and mushrooms.

7. Sprinkle chopped nuts on top of the finished snack and garnish with herbs.

Squid salad with walnuts, garlic, melted cheese

Ingredients:

• squid carcasses - 1 kg
• champignons – 600 g
• processed cheese - 150-200 g
• walnuts – 150 g
• onion - 1 pc.
• garlic - 2-3 cloves
• mayonnaise, salt
• vegetable oil

Squid salad recipe:

1. Rinse the squid, remove film, entrails and chitinous plates. Boil water in a saucepan and add salt. Place the carcasses in boiling water for a minute and rinse with cold water. Cut into rings.

2. Rinse the mushrooms, peel them, cut them into 4 pieces, large ones into 8 pieces, place them in a pan with salted water and place on the stove. After boiling, cook for 8-10 minutes, then drain the water.

3. Cut the onion into half rings and fry with mushrooms in a small amount of vegetable oil for 5-7 minutes. Cool.

4. Grate the garlic and nuts. Place the cheeses in the freezer for an hour and then grate them on a coarse grater.

5. Mix all the ingredients of the salad, add salt and season with mayonnaise.

Lenten salad of squid, fried onions and walnuts

Seafood is very helpful during the holidays that fall during Lent. And the New Year is always celebrated on a fast day, because the Nativity Fast ends on January 7th. The most accessible seafood is squid.

Ingredients:

• potatoes – 4 pcs.
• pickled mushrooms – 200 g
• squid - 2 pcs. or 1 bank
• onions – 2 pcs.
• fresh or salted cucumbers – 3 pcs.
• canned corn – 100 g
• 50 g walnuts
• vegetable oil
• salt, herbs

How to prepare salad with squid and walnuts:

A Lenten recipe may also include a special mayonnaise without eggs, but the appetizer is already quite filling, so it is better to limit yourself to the vegetable oil in which the onions were fried.

1. Boil the potatoes in their skins, cool and cut into cubes. Also chop the onions and cucumbers. Finely chop the nuts.

2. Clean the squid, boil and cut into strips. Fry the onion in oil until tender.

3. Add corn and chopped mushrooms, mix and be sure to garnish the lean salad with herbs before serving.

Calories: Not specified
Cooking time: 30 min

If you haven't tried the combination of nuts yet, be sure to do so. This tandem especially applies to a variety of salads. These seemingly not entirely compatible ingredients make excellent friends with each other and create a bright flavor combination. Also, champignons fried with onions and hard cheese go well into this composition. Salad of colmares and nuts is dressed with mayonnaise.

Preparing the salad is easy and quick. The most time-consuming job in preparing a salad is boiling the squid.

If the squid salad with nuts is served in bowls or served in portions using a salad ring, then this salad is perfect for sharing with family and friends.



Ingredients:
- squid – 2-3 pcs.;
- hard cheese – 100 gr.;
- walnuts - 1/3 cup;
- champignons – 500 gr.;
- onions - 1-2 pcs.;
- mayonnaise - for dressing;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil.
Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Step-by-step recipe with photos:

Peel the onions for the walnut and squid salad. Then cut into small pieces.




Wash the champignons and chop them into small pieces.




Fry the onion in vegetable oil in a frying pan, then add the champignons and fry together until the mushrooms are ready. Add ground pepper and salt to taste. Cool the champignons.




Remove the innards from the squid and remove the film from them.

Boil the squid for 2-3 minutes in boiling water. Then cool them.




Cut the squid for the salad with nuts into strips.




Grate the hard cheese on a coarse grater.






Grind the nut kernels with a knife or in a blender.




Combine squid, champignons fried with onions, cheese and nuts in a salad bowl. Add mayonnaise.




Mix everything.
Place the salad among the bowls. Garnish with a sprig of fresh herbs.

We hope that the salad with squid and nuts will be included in the list of your favorite salads for the holiday.