Calamari Fried is a dish in Mediterranean cuisine.
Batter-coated, deep fried squid, fried maximum 2 minutes (for preventing toughness). Serve them plain with salt and lemon, or with lemon and marinara sauce.
Ingredients
- Use vegetable oil, for deep-freed squid.
- Squid: 1 pound cleaned with tentacles. ½Inch thick rings and bodies cut into 3.
- 2 cups Flour (all-purpose)
- 2 tbsp Parsley, dried
- Salt
- 2 lemons cut in wedges
- 1 cup Tomato sauce (alternatively jarred marinara sauce)
- Fresh ground Black pepper
Tomato Sauce
- 1/2 cup Olive oil (extra-virgin)
- 1 Onion, chopped
- 2 Garlic clove, chopped
- 1 Carrot, chopped
- Fresh ground Black pepper
- Tomatoes, crushed ~ or 2 (32 oz)
- 2 dried Bay leaves
- 4 tbsp Butter (unsalted)
- 1 Celery stalk, chopped
- Sea salt
Preparations:
- Heat the oil in a large pot, medium heat. Saute onion and garlic until soft and translucent, about 5 8 minutes.
- Add carrots, celery, and season with salt and pepper. Saute until all they are soft (5-8 minutes).
- Thereafter, add tomatoes and bay leaves, let simmer on low heat until it is thich (approximately 50-55 minutes). Remove bay leaves. Taste for seasoning.
- Should the sauce taste acidic, add butter little by little until the taste is round in flavour.
- Pour half of the sauce into a bowl for food processing. Process until the tomato sauce is smooth. Pour in the rest of the tomato mix and process until smooth.
- Use a large sauce pan, and 3 inches of oil. Medium heat (350 degrees F) .
- In a large bowl, mix flour, parsley, salt, and pepper. Coat the squid with the flour mixture.
- Be careful when adding the squid into the hot oil. Fry until crispy and light golden, approximatly 1 minute on each side.
- Place the fried calamari on a plate covered with paper-towel to drain. Be careful, so use tongs or spoons
- Serve the fried calamari with lemon and the marinara sauce..
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