Prepare frozen squid. How and for how long to cook squid so that it is not tough and tasteless

Squid has the highest amount of protein, and squid dishes, even if they are frozen, are very simple and quick to prepare. Squid dishes are easily digestible by the stomach and are very useful for those people who have problems with the digestive tract. Squid meat contains extractive substances that help in the secretion of digestive juice. If you cook squid meat correctly, it turns out to be very tender, with excellent taste, and very nutritious and healthy. Squid meat contains a lot of polyunsaturated fats, a large amount of proteins, iron, iodine, copper, phosphorus, selenium, and vitamin E. Squid meat can be classified as a dietary product and is useful for both children and adults. Squid meat contains Taurine, which lowers cholesterol levels in the blood and helps stabilize blood pressure.

Ingredients:

• 300 – 400 grams of squid (frozen squid carcasses);
• 1 liter of water;
• 1 teaspoon salt;
• 150 grams of Adyghe cheese;
• 100 grams of grapes;
• 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil;
• lettuce leaves;
• 1 piece lemon.

Now prepare the frozen squid:

When choosing squid, we pay attention to ensure that the frozen squid carcasses separate from each other without effort. If the squids stick together, it means that they have already been defrosted, and cooked squids will taste bitter. The meat of the squid carcass must certainly be white. There is a film on squid carcasses; it should be slightly pink to purple.

The very first thing to do is defrost the squid. If you don’t have time, you can defrost the squids by placing them in cold water. It is forbidden to defrost squid in hot water! It is best to defrost squid in the air, since most of the nutrients will be preserved.

You can use the squid's head, tentacles and the body of the squid for food. Just before cooking, we clean the squid carcass from the film, get rid of the insides of the squid, and remove the chitinous plates. Pressing the squid to the cutting board, very gently pry up the film with your fingernail. It is removed using the “stocking” method. We also remove the film from the wings of the squid carcasses. We wash the squid very carefully and thoroughly under running water, both outside and inside.

There are several ways to cook squid. The most important thing is that cooking squid takes no more than 3 minutes. If you boil the squid longer, the squid meat itself becomes tough. Method one for cooking squid. When the water boils, add salt and add the squid. Cover the pan with a lid and immediately remove from heat. And in 10 minutes everything is ready. The second method of cooking squid. Place the squid carcass in boiling salted water and count to fifteen - immediately remove with a slotted spoon. We do this procedure with all squids. If the meat has become tough, you can boil it for 30 - 40 minutes, the meat will become soft again, but will lose half of its weight and volume.

We take a salad bowl. Tear the lettuce leaves into large pieces, sprinkle with lemon juice and stir. For the salad we take seedless grapes. Wash very well and cut the grapes in half.
Cut the pre-cooked squid into small strips. Preparing Adyghe cheese. The cheese can be cut into strips or cubes - as you like. If suddenly there was no Adyghe cheese, it doesn’t matter. You can replace it with feta cheese.
Take a salad bowl and add cheese to it, put in the already cooked squid, and put grapes on top. Season all this with olive oil, mix and serve.

Mediterranean cuisine has long been nothing new to us, and squid is an integral part of it, like other seafood. They are not only tasty, but also very healthy, especially for those who care about their figure. Every housewife has several recipes for dishes made from this seafood. But do we know how to cook squid correctly? Here are some tips that will help you cope with this task easily and without errors.

Rules for choosing and preparing squid for cooking

Today you can buy squid in almost any supermarket. Most often they are sold frozen, your choice - with or without tentacles. During storage, squid carcasses cannot be defrosted and cooled again, otherwise the product will be hopelessly spoiled: it will develop a bitter taste and an unpleasant fishy smell.

In addition, during cooking the squid will spread and foam during cooking.

If the squid has been stored correctly, its carcass will be firm, the meat will be white, and the outer skin will be pink-brown or grayish-purple.

Please note: when choosing squid in the store, give preference to unpeeled carcasses. It is by the skin that you can determine the freshness of the product and the correctness of its storage. A grayish or yellow skin, from under which meat with an irregular shade is visible, is a sign of a stale squid.

If you are confident in the freshness and good quality of the squid, you can buy cleaned carcasses. There will be virtually no hassle with them: there is no need to peel off the skin, which means the cooking process will not take much time.

The easiest way to clean frozen squid is boiling water. Just pour boiling water over the carcasses or dip them in it for literally 1-2 seconds. The film that covers the carcass will immediately curl up, and you can easily remove it, and the remains can be washed off in running cold water. Also peel the wings. The chitinous plates inside the squid also need to be removed.

It is necessary to clean squid if you plan to use its meat for salad. However, this is also useful for other dishes: the skin can give a bitter taste and toughness, and the plates are generally unnecessary.

Cooking features

The main thing to remember during the cooking process is that squid should be cooked for no more than 2–3 minutes. Otherwise, the meat may acquire a “rubbery” consistency and lose a lot of flavor. When the squid turns completely white in boiling water, it is considered ready.

It is most convenient to cook squid carcasses in small portions. Place 1-2 carcasses in a pan of boiling water, remove and add the next ones.

During cooking, you can use, in addition to salt, any seasonings and spices: pepper, dill, parsley, cloves, basil.

The finished squid carcass turns white

1. There are several simple ways to cook squid.
2. Place a pan of water over high heat, add salt and spices to taste, and boil. Throw a couple of carcasses into boiling water and hold for no longer than 3 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon.
3. Boil 1–1.5 liters of water, add salt and spices. Place thawed and prepared carcasses. Cover the pan with a lid and remove from heat. After 10 minutes, the meat will infuse and be ready. As the water gradually cools, the squid carcasses will not become tough.
4. You don't have to defrost the squid before cooking. In this case, the carcasses are immersed in boiling water for 1 minute, after which the pan is removed from the heat and infused in water for 3-4 minutes.
5. If you don't want to clean the squid before cooking, you can throw it into boiling water straight from the package without cutting it up. Frozen, unpeeled carcasses are cooked for about 7 minutes, defrosted - no more than 3 minutes. After this, pour cold water over them and you can easily peel the meat.

These rules apply equally to whole squid, rings and fillets.

A few nuances

You can prepare many dishes from boiled squid. These can be salads, pie or pizza toppings, soups and much more. And as a separate dish, squid will take its rightful place on your table.

For the salad, cook the squid meat for 7–10 minutes until cooked (white), and you don’t have to defrost it before cooking. If you want to make stuffed squids or fry them after boiling, just keep them in boiling water for 3 minutes and remove them. The meat will reach final cooking during stewing or frying.

Most often, boiled squid is used to make salads.

You can cook squid not only in a pan of water, because now there are so many devices that make the housewife’s work easier! Cooking time for squid meat in various devices:

• in a slow cooker - 2 minutes;
• in a double boiler - 5 minutes;
• in a pressure cooker - 1 minute;
• in the microwave - 1 minute on maximum mode, after adding oil, lemon juice and spices.

With the latter method you will get squid in its own juice. They are perfect for a salad or as a separate dish, such as a beer snack.

Video: how to cook squid correctly

Working on mistakes: correcting our own mistakes

Often the first pancake comes out lumpy, and if you are still inexperienced in cooking squid, mistakes cannot be avoided. The most common problem is that the meat has been in boiling water for a long time, which means it has become tough. It turns out that this is not difficult to fix. Place the carcasses in boiling water again and cook for as long as possible, at least half an hour. The meat will become soft again, although it will almost halve in volume. It may also lose its taste.

Overcooked squid can be “reanimated” by stewing in sour cream or cream

To avoid an unpleasant taste and toughness, cut the overcooked squid into slices and simmer them over low heat for 20 minutes in cream or sour cream. Thanks to this method, you can correct the situation if you have over-salted the meat. This squid is no longer suitable for a salad, but as a separate dish with a side dish it will perfectly complement dinner for the whole family.

We hope our tips will help you enjoy the rich taste of properly cooked squid meat and avoid the most common mistakes. Bon appetit and comfort to your home!

Until you try a well-cooked squid, you may not even notice that it is being sold. But if you try it once, I don’t think you won’t want to do it again, and then again and again...

Before the New Year, I prepared several different squid dishes. Those recipes describe in detail how to cut and cook squid. Here I give, please look at them too, so that you know exactly what to do.

Simple and delicious step-by-step recipes for squid dishes with photos

Well, in this article we will look at several salad options. They are all delicious and quite easy to prepare.

Menu:

1. Squid salad

Ingredients:

• Squid - 800 g.
• Eggs - 3 pcs.
• Cheese - 100 g.
• Salt to taste
• Fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
• Crab sticks - 200 g.
• Avocado - 1 pc.
• Mayonnaise

Preparation:

Boil the squid. Place the cleaned squid carcasses into highly boiling water, cover with a lid so that the water boils again faster and boil for 1-1.5 minutes. We take out the carcasses and put them in cold water; if there is water with ice, even better. This is to stop the squid from cooking. Since squid is almost pure protein, it continues to cook even when taken out of the water. And it will cool down much faster this way.

When cooking squid, pour a lot of water into the pan. The more water there is, the faster the water will boil after you lower the carcasses into the water.

1. Cut the squid into strips.

2. Finely chop the cucumber and place it on a plate. Cucumber will add freshness to our salad.

3. First cut the crab sticks in half lengthwise, turn them on their side and cut them lengthwise again, we get 4 sticks. We put them all together and cut them into small cubes.

4. Cut the avocado in half and remove the pit.

5. Inside the skin, cut the avocado lengthwise and crosswise, as if making a fine mesh.

6. Transfer the squid to a deep plate. Put a tablespoon of mayonnaise in it and mix.

7. The ingredients are ready, let’s start assembling the salad. We take a round form so that the salad fits evenly and beautifully, place it on the dish on which we will serve the salad and place the first layer of squid on the bottom.

8. Flatten the squid and place the second layer on it - avocado.

9. Level the avocado layer, add a little salt, a small pinch.

10. Directly into the mold, in a third layer, grate the eggs on a coarse grater.

11. Level the eggs and make a mayonnaise mesh over them. Spread the mayonnaise over the entire surface.

12. Lay out the next layer, crab sticks.

13. Level the sticks and lay out the penultimate layer, cucumbers. There shouldn't be too many cucumbers.

14. We level the thin layer of cucumbers, the crab sticks can even be seen through it, and apply a mesh of mayonnaise.

15. Sprinkle cheese on top, level it and basically our salad is ready. All that remains is to decorate it and let it brew, putting it in the refrigerator.

16. Place a few lettuce leaves, whatever you have, on top of the cheese. Place a figurine on top of squid rings and place a spoonful of red caviar in each ring.

Place in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes. We take it out. Carefully remove the form.

Now the salad is completely ready and I don’t want to talk anymore. I want to eat, eat and eat such a beautiful salad.

Bon appetit!

1. How to cook squid

Ingredients:

• Medium squid – 4 carcasses
• Onion - 2 large heads
• Sour cream - 150 g.
• Pepper
• Dill
• Vegetable oil.

Preparation:

1. Thaw the squid carcasses if you have them frozen. You can defrost it a little and start boiling it if you are in a hurry, but it is better to place the carcasses in the refrigerator in advance and let them defrost completely.

2. Place water in a saucepan on the stove and bring to a boil.

Please note that the more water, the faster it will boil again when you lower the squid into it. But I don’t always wait for the water to boil for the second time, after lowering the squid into it, but take it out as soon as the carcasses are inflated and rounded.

3. The water has boiled, throw into it a few black peppercorns, a couple of allspice peas, salt, about half a teaspoon per 1 liter of water, a couple of bay leaves. Let it boil for another 5 minutes with spices.

4. Place the squid in boiling water. If you don’t have much water, and the squid is frozen, lower it one carcass at a time. Bring to a boil, the carcasses are rounded, remove. And so on all the carcasses. Please note that here we are putting unpeeled squid into the water. This is one of the cooking methods that many people use. It is the simplest and easiest. But if you want your squid to be white and not pink, it is better to remove the skin from a cold one without pouring boiling water over it.

5. Now you need to peel the skin. Under a running stream of water, we seem to “wash” the carcasses. The skin comes off very easily.

6. Remove the entrails, chords (this is the name of the hard cartilaginous plate running along the ridge of the carcass).

7. Chop the onion quite coarsely.

8. Heat the frying pan and pour a little vegetable oil.

9. Place the onion in heated oil and fry until golden brown. Well, in general, whoever likes it. Some people don't like fried onions. You can fry it a little.

10. Cut the squid into rings, half a centimeter thick, and then cut the rings in half. You can cut the carcasses lengthwise into halves and then cut into strips. See what is more convenient for you.

11. Place the squid in the frying pan with the onions.

12. Season the squid with onions, sour cream, mix everything and add pepper. Close the lid and leave to simmer for 5 minutes.

13. At the end of stewing, sprinkle with a little dill (not for everyone). Mix everything. Turn off the stove.

14, Fried squid with onions is ready.

Place on plates. If you want, you can decorate with vegetables.

Bon appetit!

1. Squid salad recipe

Ingredients:

• Boiled squids - 4-5 pcs.
• Crab sticks - 5 pcs.
• Onion - 2-3 heads
• Garlic - 3-5 cloves
• Boiled eggs - 4 pcs.
• Avocado - 1/2 pcs.
• Lemon - 1/4-1/2 pcs.
• Smoked salmon - 4 small pieces
• Soy sauce - 1-2 tbsp.
• Mayonnaise
• Greenery

Preparation:

1. Roll the crab sticks into plates and place them on top of each other.

2. Cut the stacked pile of sheets lengthwise.

3. Place one half on top of the other and cut into very small strips.

4. Place in a deep container (for us it’s a pan).

5. Take boiled, peeled squid and cut off the tails.

6. Cut the carcasses into the same small strips. We also cut the tails into small strips. Many people love tails even more than carcasses. They are a little stiffer and sort of crunch. We send the chopped squid to the chopsticks and mix.

7. Cut the onion into small strips and also place it in a container with the chopsticks. Mix.

8. Cut the eggs around the circumference, cutting the white and leaving the yolk intact. Separate and set aside the yolk separately.

9. Cut the white into strips, as small as possible and also put it in the pan.

10. Cut the cucumber into 3-4 parts crosswise, cut each part into thin slices lengthwise. We stack the plates on top of each other and cut them into small strips.

11. Place in a saucepan. If you don’t want a lot of liquid from the cucumbers, place them first on a paper towel, and when they have drained a little, put them in a saucepan.

12. Take half an avocado, use a spoon to remove all the pulp, the second way is to simply peel the avocado with a knife like a potato, but this way is worse, because with a spoon you can only take out the pulp, and the hard part will remain. Place the pulp in a blender glass.

13. Squeeze a quarter or half of a lemon into a glass with avocado. Who likes what kind of acid? Here we cut the onion into large pieces, add 3-5 cloves of garlic, again to taste, and add smoked fish.

14. Take an immersion blender and beat the whole mass.

15. Break up the bulk, add a little soy sauce and continue whisking. The most important thing is that the fish breaks up well and its smoky taste spreads through the sauce.

16. Beat until smooth, add yolks and mayonnaise. We add the same amount of mayonnaise as we got the whipped mass, i.e. in half. If this is not enough for someone, then you can add mayonnaise directly to the salad. If you want, you can add a little mustard, it will add piquancy to the sauce.

17. Collect leaves from ten to fifteen sprigs of parsley and add them to the sauce mixture in a glass. Beat everything until smooth.

18. Whisk the sauce, pour it into the pan with crabs, onions and squid.

19. Mix everything well.

20. We thought the salad was too thick. Added a little more mayonnaise.

21. Mix everything thoroughly again. Salad ready.

Tip: Prepare this salad several hours before serving. The squid and crab sticks will be soaked, and the cucumbers will release their juice. All this works for the taste of the salad.

Before serving, give the salad a beautiful look using a special mold. Garnish with green leaves and serve.

Bon appetit!

1. Simple and delicious squid salad

Ingredients:

• Squid, cleaned - 2 large
• Onions - 2-3 heads
• Salt, Pepper, bay leaf, sweet peas
• Mayonnaise - 2-3 tbsp.
• Vinegar - 1.5 tbsp.
• Greens (dill)
• Boiling water (for squid marinade)

Preparation:

1. Cut the squid into thin slices.

2. Cut the onion into thin half rings.

3. Place the squid in a pan.

4. Place the onions there.

5. Throw a bay leaf, a few black peppercorns into the pan, salt and pepper, preferably freshly ground multi-colored pepper from the mill.

6. Let the water boil. We will need boiling water.

7. Pour 1-1.5 tbsp into the pan with squid and onions. l. table vinegar.

8. Fill the contents of the pan with boiling water. The water should cover everything completely.

9. Stir, taste for salt and vinegar. Add if necessary.

10. Close the lid and leave for 25 minutes.

11. While the squid is marinating, chop the greens.

12. The squid is marinated. Drain the water, remove the bay leaf and peppercorns. The squid is ready.

13. We begin to collect the salad. Season the salad with mayonnaise. Mix thoroughly. If you like more mayonnaise, add more.

14. Add greens and mix again.

Salad ready. Try it for your health.

Bon appetit!

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1. Squid salad recipe with photo

Ingredients:

• Squid – 350 g.
• Eggs - 3 pcs.
• Cheese - 150 g.
• Mayonnaise - 150 g.
• Tomatoes - 300 g.
• Green onion - 30 g.
• Dill - 30 g.
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Preparation:

1. Put spices, dill, peppercorns, and salt into boiling water.

2. Now add the squid. I hope you remember, there is not enough water, cook one carcass at a time, enough, put 2-3-4. Cook for a couple of minutes. We look at the carcass and see how it has become round, which means it’s ready. You can’t hold it too much, it will become tough. Remove the squid from the boiling water and immediately place it in cold water to stop the cooking process.

3. Cut the tomatoes in half and remove the liquid center.

4. Cut into strips and then into small pieces. Place the tomatoes in a deep cup.

5. Cut the eggs in half, and then cut them into strips and send them to the tomatoes.

6. Add grated cheese to the eggs and tomatoes.

7. Chopped green onions.

8. We also send finely chopped dill there.

9. Cut the squid into thin strips.

10. And put it in a common cup, add salt and pepper.

Place the salad on a plate. Decorate with eggs, tomatoes, herbs. Let's serve.

What a beautiful and cheerful salad we turned out to have. And no less tasty.

Bon appetit!

1. Video - How to cook squid

1. Video - Salad with squid and shrimp

Bon appetit!

There are very few people in the world who don't like squid. The seafood itself does not have a pronounced taste, but it gives the salad a certain piquancy. Despite its neutral taste, the sea shellfish in salads is recognizable and many will want to enjoy this dish.

It is not a budget product, but this does not prevent us from periodically pampering ourselves and our family with very light, tasty and healthy seafood. Having bought an expensive product, you need to know how to properly cook squid so that it is soft, and so that you don’t end up with a rubbery, long-lasting dish from the tender meat.

Today we will get to know the secrets of preparing the tender meat of this sea creature, which we can use to prepare our favorite dishes.

How to properly cook squid for salad

Kitchen appliances and utensils: a kettle or pan for boiling water, convenient dishes for squid.

Ingredients

How to properly clean squid

• Before you clean and cook frozen squid, you need to defrost it.
• After this, you can remove the top film of the shellfish carcasses with your hands, or briefly dip them in boiling water, and the top skin on them will curl up from the hot water and come off on its own.
• Then the seafood must be cut lengthwise and all entrails removed along with the chitinous chord.

How to properly cook soft squid for salad

Video recipe

I recommend that you watch this short but very informative video, in which the chef shared with us all the secrets of properly preparing squid. Following his recommendations, the seafood meat in the salad will be very tender and tasty.

In this video you won’t learn how many minutes to cook cleaned squid, but you will know exactly what needs to be done to make their meat soft.

• I recommend purchasing unpeeled squid, fresh frozen. The less ice on a frozen carcass, the less time has passed since it was frozen.
  It is difficult to determine quality and freshness from cleaned carcasses sold in stores. But many people still prefer to buy them this way because they don’t know how long to cook the squid after the water boils so that they are soft.
• You can prepare it according to the above recipe, or cook it for 1 minute after the water with the carcasses boils.

Cooking options

Since you and I have learned how to clean squid, it’s time to prepare a delicious dish from these carcasses. I also want to note that seafood brings great benefits to our body because they are sources of protein, fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. Therefore, introduce them into your diet more often to get great benefits from food.

• Insanely tasty and easy to prepare the popular pasta with squid. Here, too, the main secret of a delicious dish is properly cooked shellfish. To prevent the meat from turning out tough, follow all the recommendations described in this recipe.
• I recommend cooking squid in cream sauce for dinner. I like this product because it is very easy to combine with different ingredients. I prefer to combine the prepared dish with rice or potatoes, and my husband enjoys eating it with pasta.
• Now the batter is gaining popularity and skilled chefs have shared a successful recipe for making it. This dish will be worthy of a holiday table. This snack is going very quickly for us. Try it, and I am sure that you and everyone who tries this dish will be delighted.
• And finally, I suggest you pay attention to the recipe for stewed squid. This dish is very quick to prepare and the taste is excellent.

Alexander Gushchin

I can’t vouch for the taste, but it will be hot :)

Content

This seafood is very nutritious. Squid meat contains many vitamins and microelements valuable for humans: vitamins B, C, PP, calcium, iodine, manganese, iron. A properly prepared product is easily digested and has a delicate, pleasant taste.

How to select and prepare squid for cooking

Fresh squid can rarely be found on sale; as a rule, frozen carcasses arrive on the shelves. What you need to pay attention to when choosing seafood:

• the fillet must be white (otherwise the product is spoiled);
• skin color can be either grayish-whitish or light pink;
• Large squids, which have dense, elastic meat, are suitable for the salad, and small carcasses are ideal for stuffing, as they are tender and soft;
• frozen fillets should be easily separated from each other; if the carcasses are stuck together, they have already been frozen several times;
• Eating expired products is hazardous to health, so pay attention to the expiration date.

Before cooking seafood at home, it should be defrosted. To do this, the mollusks are placed in a container with cold or warm water (but not hot) and left for a while. After defrosting, the carcasses should be peeled. The easiest way to remove the film is to first pour boiling water over the product. It is necessary to clean squid not only by removing the skin, but also the insides and bones.

How long to cook squids until they are soft?

Some housewives do not know how to properly cook squid, so they avoid preparing dishes containing this ingredient. Meanwhile, this is a very simple process that does not require any special skills. The main thing is to prevent prolonged cooking of seafood. If you keep the carcasses in boiling water for longer than the required time, instead of tender and soft meat, you will get tough and tasteless meat. How many minutes to cook squid? It all depends on the form in which you are going to prepare the product.

Peeled

Delicious seafood is prepared very easily and quickly. How to cook peeled squid:

• fill the pan with water, wait until it boils;
• add salt and seasonings to the water;
• Place thawed and peeled shellfish in boiling water for 2 minutes (the meat should turn white), then drain the water;
• if you have overcooked the product, leave the pan on the fire for another 30 minutes - during this time the fillet will become soft again;
• After boiling the carcasses, cut them into rings and serve with beer.

Unrefined

How to cook squid with film? There is no big difference in the method of cooking unpeeled and “naked” carcasses - the difference lies in the time required for cooking. How to boil squid in skin:

• defrost the carcasses;
• place a pan of water on the stove;
• when the liquid begins to boil, add bay leaf, salt, allspice;
• lower the carcasses into the pan, turn off the heat and cover the container with a lid so that the steam does not leave it;
• after 10 minutes, remove the seafood from the water.

How to cook squid, frozen in rings

It is more convenient to cook a whole clam than rings, since it will be difficult to quickly remove all the pieces from boiling water. In addition, rings are easier to digest than large carcasses. However, if you have already purchased sliced ​​goods, there are several ways to cook squid rings:

1. First option. Boil water, adding spices to taste. This can be bay leaf, white/black pepper, herbs, etc. Using a slotted spoon, place a couple of rings in boiling water, counting to 10, and remove them. So boil all the pieces one by one. Serve the cooked dish chilled.
2. Second option. Pour all the rings into boiling water, wait a minute and remove the container from the heat. The pieces can be removed from the water after 3 minutes. You shouldn’t keep them in liquid for longer, otherwise they will become “rubbery.”
3. Third method. Boil half a liter of water and season it with spices. Place the defrosted rings inside, close the dish and immediately remove from the stove. Do not open the lid for 5 minutes, after which the dish will be ready to eat.
4. Fourth way. Fill the multicooker halfway with water, turn on the “Stew” option. Add seasonings (you can use paprika, any pepper, marjoram, cloves, lemon juice, etc.). After the liquid boils, place the rings in the bowl and leave to cook for 1-2 minutes. You can tell when they are ready by their white color - then the pieces can be removed.