Calamari stuffed with cracked wheat and vegetables
Calamari stuffed with cracked wheat and vegetables

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All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. For the stuffing, heat olive oil in a small saucepan, add onion and chopped garlic and cook until onion becomes translucent. For the stuffing - put any tentacles you might have from the squid into a food processor with the shrimp, garlic, kale, eggs, panko, cheese, crushed I used my marinade to sear the squid & you can, too, but know that the garlic burns a bit.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have 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:
  1. Make ready 4 large clamari fillets (squid) or 8 medium-sized (about 1 kg)
  2. Get 4-5 tbsp cracked wheat
  3. Prepare 2 carrots
  4. Make ready half a sweet red pepper and half a green one
  5. Get 1 thick slice of fennel bulb
  6. Get 2 cloves garlic
  7. Take 2 spring onions
  8. Get parsley (1/2 bunch)
  9. Prepare 1 small tomato
  10. Get zest and juice of half a lemon
  11. Get salt, pepper
  12. Get hot chili peppers or hot paprika flakes, optionally
  13. Prepare 1/4 cup ouzo
  14. Make ready 8 tbsp olive oil

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Steps to make Calamari stuffed with cracked wheat and vegetables:
  1. 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.
  2. Rinse and soak the cracked wheat in cold water for 10-15' then strain it.
  3. 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!).
  4. 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.
  5. Set it aside to cool for a while.
  6. Place 2 tbsp of olive oil in a baking tray with a lid.
  7. 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'.
  8. 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.
  9. I mix it with a little yoghurt and serve it as a first course (it is about half a portion per person).

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