Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, calamari stuffed with cracked wheat and vegetables. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. Grilled squid stuffed with couscous and vegetables.
Calamari stuffed with cracked wheat and vegetables is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Calamari stuffed with cracked wheat and vegetables is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook calamari stuffed with cracked wheat and vegetables using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Calamari stuffed with cracked wheat and vegetables:
- Make ready 4 large clamari fillets (squid) or 8 medium-sized (about 1 kg)
- Take 4-5 tbsp cracked wheat
- Get 2 carrots
- Take half a sweet red pepper and half a green one
- Prepare 1 thick slice of fennel bulb
- Make ready 2 cloves garlic
- Make ready 2 spring onions
- Get parsley (1/2 bunch)
- Make ready 1 small tomato
- Make ready zest and juice of half a lemon
- Take salt, pepper
- Take hot chili peppers or hot paprika flakes, optionally
- Get 1/4 cup ouzo
- Take 8 tbsp olive oil
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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).
Once the sauce boils, place the calamari in the sauce cover the pot. 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. Serve the stuffed calamari and sauce over a bed of linguine. In English, calamari is a culinary term for squid meat, just as "pork" and "beef" refer to pig and cow meat, respectively.
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