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About the Recipe
Fried calamari is a typical dish of Italian cuisine. These floured squid fried dressed with sea salt and freshly squeezed lemon juice rings recall summer. They serve as an antipasto or a second course.
Crispy outside, soft inside, they delight everyone around the table, even the picky ones who do not like eating fish.
Calamari is not only good to eat. It comes with a load of sound supplements for our bodies; they are rich in proteins, mineral salts, and vitamins.
Ingredients
2 Calamari
1 Cup Flour
Sea Salt
1 Organic Lemon
1 L Olive Oil
Preparation
Clean the calamari with plenty of running cold water.
With your hands, separate their heads from their bodies (mantles.)
Keep the ink sac intact (Squid Ink Spaghetti Recipe here)
Extract the transparent cartilage from inside their mantles.
Rewash the calamari with cold running water and remove the entrails.
Peel off the outer skin, remove the flaps, and continue peeling until you have a perfectly white calamari tube.
Peel off the flaps from their skin and cut them into halves.
Slice the calamari into 0.2 inches rings and set aside.
Cut off the head from the tentacles by cutting below their eyes.
You will find a hard little beak in the middle of the tentacles; remove them.
Dump the calamari into the flour till fully coated with it.
Sieve the excess flour from the calamari using a sift.
Pour olive oil into a tall frying pan.
Bring the olive oil to 170 C (340 F)
Gently drop the calamari a little at a time into the olive oil.
Cook for two/three minutes till golden brown.
Once cooked, take them out of the frying pan and place them on food-grade absorbent paper.
Add sea salt to taste.
Plate and garnish with lemon quarters (to squeeze) and a side of lettuce or mixed salad.
Enjoy!