Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, stewed calamari in tomato sauce. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Tender calamari in sauce, this is an aromatic seafood stew that you will be making over and over again. This calamari stew was my first time with calamari. The calamari rings were really tender and the tomato sauce unbelievably aromatic and delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook stewed calamari in tomato sauce using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Stewed Calamari in Tomato Sauce:
- Take 2-4 tbsp olive oil
- Take 1 large chopped onion
- Make ready 1-2 cups carrots, cut into quarter inch slices
- Take 2-3 cloves garlic
- Make ready 6 oz no salt tomato paste
- Make ready 1 cup low/no sodium chicken/vegetable broth
- Get 28 oz can of crushed tomato
- Prepare 1-2 pounds cleaned squid; sliced into rings and tentacles roughly chopped
- Take 1 tbsp fennel seed
- Take 1 tbsp black peppercorn
- Prepare 2-3 tsp dried oregano
- Take 2-3 tsp dried basil
- Make ready 2-3 tsp parsley flakes
- Prepare Pinch crushed red pepper; or more
Calamari with Tomato Sauce. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Fried calamari is a popular appetizer and we love it dipped in tomato sauce or laced with pickled hot peppers. But let's consider squid for other delicious meals, such as this Italian recipe. Add tomato sauce to cover squid.
Steps to make Stewed Calamari in Tomato Sauce:
- Heat the olive oil in a pot over a medium high heat, then add the onions to saute. Cook the onions until they start to become translucent, about 5 minutes
- Once the onions start to color, add the carrots. Let the carrots cook for about another 5 minutes.
- After that, add the garlic and tomato paste. Let it cook together with onions and carrots; about 3 minutes.
- Pour the chicken broth into the pot. Increase the heat to high, then let it boil down to about half.
- After you add the broth, grind the fennel seeds, black peppercorn, dried oregano, dried basil, parsley flakes and crushed red pepper. Let it grind for about 5-10 seconds, until it is at the consistency you like. Once done, add to the pot and stir.
- Add the crushed tomatoes, reduce the heat to medium and let simmer for about 5 minutes.
- Slowly stir the squid into pot. Once again, reduce the heat to medium low or low. Let the squid simmer in the sauce for about an hour. Stir every 15-20 minutes as it simmers. After an hour, test the squid to make sure it is tender. If not tender, check on it every 15-20 minutes, until done.
- Enjoy!
Over medium-low heat, bring to a gentle simmer. Add the carrots, tomato sauce, red wine, clam juice, oregano, lemon peel and sugar and bring to a simmer. Taste, then season with salt and pepper. Calamari cooks very quickly, so take care not to over cook. Calamari Stew with Tomatoes is a typical dish of Mediterranean cuisine and of the classic Italian tradition.
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