ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS STUFFED CALAMARI
Calamari tubes are stuffed with seafood and baked in a rich cream sauce before serving over a bed of linguine. This is probably the best calamari, if not the best entree, you'll ever have!
Provided by UNREFINEDNERD
Categories World Cuisine Recipes European Italian
Time 40m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Rinse the calamari tubes and pat dry.
- In a large bowl, stir together the onions, 6 cloves garlic, shrimp, crabmeat and lemon juice. Spoon some of this mixture into each squid tube and seal the ends by 'sewing' with a toothpick. Arrange in a single layer in the bottom of a 9x13-inch baking dish. Set aside.
- Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in cream cheese and 2 cloves garlic. Cook and stir until cream cheese has melted. Gradually whisk in the milk. Cook until heated through and then remove from the heat and stir in the Parmesan cheese and pepper. Pour over all of the calamari tubes in the baking dish. Sprinkle about 2 tablespoons of Romano cheese on top of each one.
- Bake uncovered until the cheese is browned and sauce is bubbly. While the calamari is baking, Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add linguine pasta, and cook until al dente, about 8 minutes. Drain. Serve the stuffed calamari and sauce over a bed of linguine.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1018.6 calories, Carbohydrate 41.7 g, Cholesterol 479.1 mg, Fat 65.6 g, Fiber 1.5 g, Protein 65.6 g, SaturatedFat 39.9 g, Sodium 1548.7 mg, Sugar 7.8 g
STUFFED CALAMARI
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. After a slow simmer in briny tomato sauce, diced shrimp and peppery crumbs plump up into a rich stuffing that fills tender calamari bodies; they're like seafood dumplings in reverse.
Provided by Francis Lam
Categories main course
Time 1h30m
Yield Serves 3-4
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- In a food processor, pulse the taralli until it forms coarse crumbs. Measure 1 1/4 cups of the crumbs. Pulse the squid tentacles in the food processor to chop them fine, and pat them very dry with paper towels.
- In a large skillet, heat 1/4 cup olive oil over medium heat. When shimmering, add the squid tentacles, and spread them out. Sear until golden brown, about 5 minutes, then add the butter, garlic and red-pepper flakes to taste. Cook, stirring, until the garlic just starts to color, about 1 minute.
- Add the shrimp, season with salt and cook until just pink, about 2 minutes. Add the wine, and simmer for 1 minute. Turn off the heat, and stir in the taralli crumbs and lemon zest. The crumbs should look like wet, clumpy sand. If the mixture is too dry, sprinkle in a little more wine, and allow the filling to cool until just warm.
- Stuff each squid body with the filling, leaving the bottom and top inches unfilled (the stuffing will expand as it cooks). Secure the tops with toothpicks, and season all over with salt.
- Make the sauce: In a wide, deep pan, warm 1/4 cup olive oil over medium heat. Add red-pepper flakes to taste and the garlic, and cook until fragrant and just beginning to color. Stir in the tomatoes, and season with salt and pepper.
- Bring the tomatoes to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer the sauce for 15 minutes. Add the calamari and any extra stuffing, and bring back to a very gentle simmer.
- Cover the pan, and simmer for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally and adjusting the heat to make sure the sauce maintains a lazy bubble. Adjust with salt to taste. Garnish with the parsley. Serve with bread or pasta.
SQUID STUFFED SQUID
Steps:
- Preheat an oven to 375 degrees F.
- Heat the olive oil in a medium saute pan over medium heat until shimmering. Add the onions and salt and sweat until the onions turn translucent, about 1 to 2 minutes. Do not brown. Add the garlic and continue to cook for another minute. Transfer the mixture to a medium mixing bowl and set aside to cool.
- Clean the squid thoroughly and remove the heads from the tentacles and discard the heads. Turn the tubes inside out (since the outside skin tends to curl outward, it'll hold the stuffing better inside out), put into a bowl and set in the refrigerator until ready to use. Place the tentacles and the shrimp into the bowl of a food processor and pulse 6 to 8 times or until there are no large pieces visible. Do not process until smooth. Transfer to the mixing bowl along with the onions and garlic. Add the bread crumbs, tomato, lemon zest, ginger, parsley and pepper. Stir to combine well.
- Place the mixture into a resealable freezer bag and snip 1 corner. You may use a pastry bag with a tip just small enough to fit into the end of the tubes. Pipe the stuffing into the tubes, dividing the mixture evenly between them. Do not over-stuff.
- Place the tubes into an 8 by 11-inch glass baking dish and cover with the tomato sauce. Cover tightly with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes. Serve immediately.
STUFFED CALAMARI, SICILIAN STYLE
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Clean the 12 large squid tubes; remove skin and cartilage inside the squid and rinse and clean. In a large pan saute onions in 2 tablespoons olive oil until soft. In a large bowl, combine the Sauteed onions, 1/2 cup of olive oil, garlic, 1 cup pecorino, 1/2 cup parsley, and the bread crumbs and mix well. Add the remaining 1/2 cup of oil to make the bread crumbs soft. Add the raisins last. Fill the squid tubes with the mixture and secure with a toothpick at the top opening. Lay the tubes in a baking pan with a little oil in the bottom of the pan, and bake for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, remove from oven and top with tomato sauce. Sprinkle with 1/4 cup of pecorino and an additional 1/4 cup of parsley. Put pan back in the oven and bake until the cheese is melted, 10 to 15 minutes.
- In a large frying pan, mix crushed tomatoes, garlic, basil, salt, pepper and sugar. Cook for 5 minutes and set aside.
STUFFED CALAMARI
Steps:
- Clean squid. Remove tentacles and fins. Boil tentacles and fins for 15 minutes. Drain and cool. Chop finely. In mixing bowl, combine ricotta, egg, cheese, parsley, chopped tentacles and fins, salt and pepper. Stuff squid with cheese mixture. Close each end with a toothpick. After stuffed, dredge in flour. Heat the oil in large pan and saute squid until brown on all sides. Remove from pan. Drain oil from pan. Add garlic and white wine. Bring to a boil, turn heat down to a simmer and reduce to half. Add tomatoes, salt pepper, and oregano. Bring to a boil and cook 10 minutes. In roasting pan, place squid and pour over tomatoes. Cover pan with foil, bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and serve.
STUFFED CALAMARI
Calling all calamari lovers! Though it looks gourmet, this dish is actually fairly easy to prepare and is served with sautéed vegetables and diced mozzarella.
Provided by David Rocco
Categories appetizer,cheese,dinner,Italian,lunch,Moderate,seafood,side,tomatoes,vegetables
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- You can buy the squid cleaned, but make sure it has the tentacles on it. To start, give the squid a good rinse inside and out.
- On medium, heat 1/2 olive oil in a frying pan and sauté your diced vegetables, add salt and pepper to taste. Remove pan from heat and add diced mozzarella di bufala, making sure you do not melt the mozzarella.
- Gently stuff the vegetable mozzarella mixture into each calamari. Don't overstuff because when they cook the squid shrinks and you don't want the stuffing to pop out. Seal the opening by threading the tentacles through the body with a toothpick a few times.
- In another frying pan, add remaining olive oil and whole clove of garlic with peel on. Add stuffed calamari and cook for about 1 minute on their own.
- While the calamari continues to cook, add your cherry tomatoes, capers, and olives for the sauce. Remove clove of garlic from sauce and add a pinch of salt if you like. Cook for a few minutes and remove from heat. Serve immediately.
STUFFED CALAMARI
This recipe is delicious , very nice with a nice class of SilverGum Chardonary wine, my husband love this dish and your man will too, when ever we having guess over my husband ask me to make this dish and they love it, one guess told me that she didn't like calamari, but after eating this she call me and ask for the recipe.
Provided by Telisia Dodd @Mstexas1
Categories Other Main Dishes
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Direction: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 1.Heat pure olive oil in saute pan on MEDIUM. Add onions and garlic; cook, stirring occasionally about 10 min, until onions are translucent. Refrigerate about 5 min to cool. 2.Chop shrimp; add to large bowl. Add salami, panko, parsley, and onion/garlic mixture. Season with salt and pepper; mix well. Add extra-virgin olive oil, lemon zest, and lemon juice. 3.Stuff squid tubes carefully with shrimp mixture almost to top; secure top closed by skewering with foodpick. 4.Arrange calamari in braising pan. Pour seasoned tomato sauce over calamari; cover. Bake 55-60 min or until internal temp of stuffing reaches 165 degrees. Remove foodpicks; serve with sauce.
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