Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, stewed calamari in tomato sauce. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to 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
- Get 1 large chopped onion
- Get 1-2 cups carrots, cut into quarter inch slices
- Get 2-3 cloves garlic
- Take 6 oz no salt tomato paste
- Get 1 cup low/no sodium chicken/vegetable broth
- Make ready 28 oz can of crushed tomato
- Get 1-2 pounds cleaned squid; sliced into rings and tentacles roughly chopped
- Prepare 1 tbsp fennel seed
- Prepare 1 tbsp black peppercorn
- Get 2-3 tsp dried oregano
- Prepare 2-3 tsp dried basil
- Get 2-3 tsp parsley flakes
- Make ready Pinch crushed red pepper; or more
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!
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