Greek stuffed calamari
Greek stuffed calamari

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Greek stuffed calamari is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Greek stuffed calamari is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have greek stuffed calamari using 11 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Greek stuffed calamari:
  1. Prepare 700 g calamari tubes - thawed, cleaned and dried
  2. Take 150 g streaky bacon snipped into pieces
  3. Make ready 1 brown onion diced
  4. Get 3 celery stalks finely chopped
  5. Take 1 tsp each onion flakes, garlic and ginger minced
  6. Take 1 can chopped tomato
  7. Make ready 15 g garlic tomato paste
  8. Take 50 ml ouzo
  9. Take 50 ml Greek olive oil
  10. Take Herb flavored cream cheese
  11. Get 3 sprigs thyme - leaves picked

Try them stuffed with a savory vegetable mixture and stewed in tomato sauce and spices. Grilled calamari makes for a wonderful first course, it's great as a shared appetizer, I've made calamari souvlaki or it can be served on a bed of seasonal greens as a salad and made into a light dinner. Heat the remaining olive oil with the garlic in another frying pan. Keyword Rehberi Kayıtları (stuffed calamari recipe greek - stuffed calamari recipe italian).

Steps to make Greek stuffed calamari:
  1. Clean calamari tubes really well- ensure all skin and spines removed
  2. Heat some olive oil in a heavy base pan and fry onions with celery, garlic and ginger and bacon until well done.
  3. Add warm mixture to cream cheese and blend well with a fork
  4. Use a small spoon to stuff calamari tubes 3/4 full and pin ends closed with a toothpick
  5. In same pan heat more olive oil and gently fry stuffed calamari in small batches for 2-3 minutes each side, remove from pan
  6. After all calamari is done and removed from pan, add ouzo and deglaze pan for about 3 minutes
  7. Scrape off all bacon and onion bits from the pan and add can of tomatoes and paste. Add thyme sprigs
  8. Simmer uncovered for 20 minutes until sauce is nice and thick
  9. Return calamari to the pan and simmer covered for a further 20 min
  10. The calamari tubes will plump up in the sauce.
  11. Serve with some polenta or mashed potatoes and a nice shot of ouzo
  12. Enjoy and Opa!

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