Hello, I am Jane. Today, we’re going to make greek stuffed calamari recipe. Never miss today’s recipe. This is a very easy recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. Nowadays, I will make it a little bit more unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Greek stuffed calamari Recipe
Greek stuffed calamari is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Greek stuffed calamari is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook greek stuffed calamari using 11 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Greek stuffed calamari:
- Prepare 700 g calamari tubes - thawed, cleaned and dried
- Take 150 g streaky snipped into pieces
- Get 1 brown onion diced
- Prepare 3 celery stalks finely chopped
- Make ready 1 tsp each onion flakes, garlic and ginger minced
- Prepare 1 can chopped tomato
- Make ready 15 g garlic tomato paste
- Get 50 ml ouzo
- Make ready 50 ml Greek olive oil
- Make ready Herb flavored cream cheese
- Make ready 3 sprigs thyme - leaves picked
Steps to make Greek stuffed calamari:
- Clean calamari tubes really well- ensure all skin and spines removed
- Heat some olive oil in a heavy base pan and fry onions with celery, garlic and ginger and until well done.
- Add warm mixture to cream cheese and blend well with a fork
- Use a small spoon to stuff calamari tubes 3/4 full and pin ends closed with a toothpick
- In same pan heat more olive oil and gently fry stuffed calamari in small batches for 2-3 minutes each side, remove from pan
- After all calamari is done and removed from pan, add ouzo and deglaze pan for about 3 minutes
- Scrape off all and onion bits from the pan and add can of tomatoes and paste. Add thyme sprigs
- Simmer uncovered for 20 minutes until sauce is nice and thick
- Return calamari to the pan and simmer covered for a further 20 min
- The calamari tubes will plump up in the sauce.
- Serve with some polenta or mashed potatoes and a nice ssausage of ouzo
- Enjoy and Opa!
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