Finally, after a delay of several years, I made stuffed calamari - it was so good! REC inside....

heather_in_sf

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Now years ago on the old swap one of you kind wonderful people gave me this recipe (thank you!), it's from a wonderful chef, Umberto, and I've been to his restaurant in Whistler, BC three times now (but this wasn't on the menu). This wasn't as hard to do as I thought, and the whole family got into to the sink together and cleaned the squid, my DB's little girl said that was her favorite part of the weekend! she's 9 and I have hopes for her in the kitchen now!

We did the full 3 pounds of squid and it made enough for 4.

MTS -CALAMARI RIPIENI

(Stuffed Squid

by Umberto

serves 6

3 lbs squid

Stuffing:

2 oz. prosciutto

1/4 cup olive oil

1 tsp tomato puree

1 tbsp onion, finely chopped

2 cloves garlic, finely chopped

2 tbst fresh parsley, finely chopped

1 egg

2 tbsp bread crumbs

1 tsp salt

freshly ground black pepper

(we also added 1 cup of lump crab meat - next time we will skip the prosciutto and just do shrimp meat)

salt

freshly ground black pepper

1/4 cup flour

1/4 cup olive oil

1/2 cup dry white wine or dry white vermouth

Pre-heat oven 375°.

Clean squid and cut off tentacles, making

sure the beak-like mouth is discarded. Save

tentacles.

Finely chop tentacles and prosciutto, put

in bowl. Add oil, puree, onion, garlic,

parsley, egg, bread crumbs, S & P to

tentacles and prosciutto in bowl, mix. Put

stuffing in piping bag.

Fill squid bodies with stuffing, seal both

ends w/toothpick. Season w/S & P.

Lightly flour, shaking off excess. Saute

squid in hot oil in skillet on med. heat for

2-3 minutes until lightly browned. Put

squid in casserole dish, pur wine over.

Bake 375° for 30 minutes.

This would be great with a rice pilaf to soak up the juices...

 
Hey, good for you. It's still on my list. Had the same experience with a Greek chef &

restaurant owner. He made a wonderful squid stuffed with feta. But he never ever put it on the menu, despite our pleas. Everything else was boring. And, the restaurant closed.

 
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