Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, calamari stuffed with cracked wheat and vegetables. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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These keto versions of the Croatian stuffed calamari are amazing! The stuffed calamari can also be prepared the day before and refrigerated until you are ready to serve them. Long a star on Camille Orrichio Loccisano's traditional Italian-American Feast of the Seven Fishes table, these stuffed squid were also a hit at her restaurant, the appropriately named Casa Calamari.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have calamari stuffed with cracked wheat and vegetables using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Calamari stuffed with cracked wheat and vegetables:
- Prepare 4 large clamari fillets (squid) or 8 medium-sized (about 1 kg)
- Get 4-5 tbsp cracked wheat
- Make ready 2 carrots
- Take half a sweet red pepper and half a green one
- Prepare 1 thick slice of fennel bulb
- Take 2 cloves garlic
- Take 2 spring onions
- Take parsley (1/2 bunch)
- Take 1 small tomato
- Prepare zest and juice of half a lemon
- Get salt, pepper
- Get hot chili peppers or hot paprika flakes, optionally
- Get 1/4 cup ouzo
- Make ready 8 tbsp olive oil
Place cracked wheat into a bowl, pour over boiling water. Add remaining ingredients to cracked wheat and mix well. Spoon mixture into a lightly greased casserole dish. All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified.
Steps to make Calamari stuffed with cracked wheat and vegetables:
- Leave the calamari in the fridge overnight to defrost (if they are frozen), wash them thoroughly, remove the tentacles, the cuttlebone (which is like plastic) and place them for a while in a little salted water.
- Rinse and soak the cracked wheat in cold water for 10-15' then strain it.
- Finely chop all the vegetables. If you like, finely chop the tentacles as well (I place them at one edge of the baking tray with the stuffed calamari and then give them to my cat who just loves them!).
- Place 2 tbsp of olive oil in a pan and sauté the carrots first, then the garlic, the fennel bulb and the rest of the ingredients together (as well as the tentacles), stir for a while and then stir in the ouzo, add the cracked wheat, the zest and lemon juice, the parsley, the spice and mix.
- Set it aside to cool for a while.
- Place 2 tbsp of olive oil in a baking tray with a lid.
- Dry the calamari and stuff them with the mixture (pack it in tightly, cracked wheat doesn't get fluffy like rice does). If there is any filling left, add it to the baking tray. Pour the remaining 4 tbsp of olive oil over the stuffed calamari and bake at 180°C (no fan) covered for 30' and without the lid for and additional 15'.
- They let out a lot of liquids, it is best to pour it over them when you take the lid off (so that they don't get too firm). You can remove that liquid in the end and make a soup.
- I mix it with a little yoghurt and serve it as a first course (it is about half a portion per person).
For the stuffing, heat olive oil in a small saucepan, add onion and chopped garlic and cook until onion becomes translucent. The Stuffed Calamari recipe out of our category Octopus! See more ideas about Calamari, Calamari recipes, Seafood recipes. Calamari is often served deep fried here in the United States. Though it has a unique texture (somewhat similar to al dente linguine), the light flavor is delightful and worth trying.
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