Welcome to the ultimate guide to cooking calamari on pasta, a delectable seafood dish that will tantalize your taste buds and leave you craving for more. Calamari, also known as squid, is a versatile ingredient that pairs perfectly with the rich flavors of pasta, creating a symphony of flavors that will delight your senses. Whether you prefer a simple preparation or a more elaborate dish, this article will guide you through the process of selecting the freshest calamari, preparing it to perfection, and combining it with the right pasta and sauce to create a memorable culinary experience. So, prepare your kitchen, gather your ingredients, and get ready to embark on a culinary adventure as we delve into the world of calamari on pasta.
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CALAMARI WITH TOMATO SAUCE
Our family always has this on Christmas Eve as one of the seven fish dishes typically served.
Provided by ELEANOR1052
Categories Seafood Shellfish Octopus and Squid
Time 1h
Yield 8
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the garlic and cook until lightly brown. Stir in tomato puree, water, red wine, salt, sugar and crushed red pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 30 minutes, stirring occasionally
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add linguine and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain.
- Stir calamari into the tomato puree mixture. Continue to simmer approximately 15 minutes, until squid is opaque. Check frequently to avoid overcooking squid. Serve squid and sauce over cooked linguine.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 483.1 calories, Carbohydrate 55.8 g, Cholesterol 375.6 mg, Fat 12.8 g, Fiber 3.8 g, Protein 34.3 g, SaturatedFat 2.4 g, Sodium 803.6 mg, Sugar 7.2 g
CALAMARI IN A CREAMY WHITE WINE SAUCE
This dish looks like you slaved over it and has such a rich taste that you don't need any sides. It is a creamy spicy calamari in white wine sauce over pasta. Dinner for two but easily doubled. Serve with the rest of the wine!
Provided by NUKA1
Categories World Cuisine Recipes European Italian
Time 35m
Yield 2
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain.
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add crushed garlic, and cook for a few seconds until it turns golden brown. Stir in the squid, and cook until it turns white. Pour in white wine and cherry pepper slices; bring to a simmer, and cook until the wine is reduced by half, about 3 minutes.
- Stir cornstarch into the cream, and add to the simmering calamari. Season with red pepper flakes, basil, salt, and pepper; stir until thickened. To serve, toss pasta with sauce, and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1229.5 calories, Carbohydrate 104.3 g, Cholesterol 417.3 mg, Fat 67.2 g, Fiber 4.8 g, Protein 38.9 g, SaturatedFat 32.5 g, Sodium 306 mg, Sugar 6.9 g
CALAMARI FRA DIAVOLO OVER LINGUINE RECIPE BY TASTY
In this classic Italian pasta dish, tender squid rings and tentacles simmer in a thick and spicy tomato sauce-fra diavolo means "brother devil" in Italian. Toss it with linguine, top with more parsley and red pepper flakes, and serve family style. We recommend using clam juice to enhance the seafood flavor, but chicken stock works too!
Provided by Betsy Carter
Categories Dinner
Time 1h10m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Bring a large pot of well-salted water to a boil of medium-high heat.
- While the water is boiling, make the sauce: In a separate large pot, heat the olive oil over medium heat until shimmering. Add the onion and ½ teaspoon salt and sauté for 4-6 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the onion is softened and translucent. Add the garlic, oregano, and red pepper flakes and sauté for 1 minute, until the garlic is fragrant.
- Add the tomato paste and mix until evenly combined with the aromatics. Cook for 6-8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the tomato paste has darkened and thickened. It is okay if some of the paste begins to stick to the bottom of the pot. Deglaze with the red wine and clam juice, scraping up any browned bits. Simmer for 4-6 minutes, until the liquid is reduced by half.
- Add the whole peeled tomatoes and, using a potato masher, break up the tomatoes into bite-sized chunks. Bring the sauce to a simmer.
- Add the calamari and stir to coat in the sauce. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for about 25 minutes, until the calamari is very tender and the sauce has thickened. Season with the remaining teaspoon of salt, plus more to taste.
- When the calamari has 6-8 minutes cooking time left, drop the linguine into the boiling water and until just shy of al dente. Reserve ¼ cup (60 ml) of the pasta water.
- Using tongs, transfer the linguine directly to the calamari sauce. Add the reserved pasta water and toss well to combine. Cook for 2-3 minutes, until the linguine is al dente and well coated in the sauce. Remove the pot from the heat and stir in the lemon juice and half of the parsley.
- Transfer the pasta to a large serving platter and garnish with remaining parsley and red pepper flakes.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 759 calories, Carbohydrate 109 grams, Fat 21 grams, Fiber 7 grams, Protein 28 grams, Sugar 10 grams
AMALFI CALAMARI PASTA
Provided by Hugh Garvey
Categories Pasta Quick & Easy High Fiber Dinner Squid Winter Deep-Fry Bon Appétit Sugar Conscious Pescatarian Peanut Free Tree Nut Free Soy Free No Sugar Added
Yield Makes 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Line rimmed baking sheet with several layers of paper towels. Whisk flour, cornstarch, 1 teaspoon coarse salt, baking powder, and cayenne pepper in medium bowl to blend. Working in batches, toss squid rings in flour mixture to coat, then place rings in single layer on sheet of foil.
- Pour both oils into large skillet; lean deep-fry thermometer on side of skillet, submerging bulb in oil. Heat oil over medium-high heat until thermometer registers 350° to 360°. Working in several batches, add squid rings to hot oil and cook until light golden and crisp around edges, 2 to 3 minutes per batch. Using slotted spoon, transfer squid to paper- towel-lined baking sheet to drain.
- Meanwhile, cook pasta in large pot of boiling salted water, stirring occasionally, until just tender but still firm to bite. Drain, reserving 1 cup pasta cooking liquid. Return pasta to pot. Add butter and 3 tablespoons lemon juice and toss to coat pasta. Add 3/4 cup pasta cooking liquid and toss. Mix in 1/3 cup parsley. Season to taste with coarse salt and freshly ground pepper, adding more lemon juice and pasta cooking liquid, if desired.
- Transfer pasta to large bowl; top with calamari. Sprinkle with remaining parsley. Serve with lemon wedges.
LINGUINE WITH CALAMARI AND GARLIC
Categories Garlic Pasta Shellfish Basil Squid White Wine Bon Appétit
Yield 2 Servings; Can Be Doubled
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Cook pasta in large pot of boiling salted water until just tender but still firm to bite, stirring occasionally. Drain pasta, reserving 1/2 cup cooking liquid.
- Meanwhile, heat reserved oil from anchovies (about 2 tablespoons) in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add calamari and toss just until opaque, about 1 minute. Add garlic, crushed red pepper and crushed anchovies with capers and stir 1 minute. Add white wine; boil until sauce is slightly reduced, about 3 minutes. Mix in basil.
- Add pasta to mixture in skillet. Toss until heated through and sauce coats pasta, adding reserved cooking liquid by tablespoonfuls if pasta seems dry, about 2 minutes. Divide pasta and calamari between 2 plates and serve.
CALAMARI AND TOMATO PASTA
Calamari has a delicate flavour and tender texture when it's cooked quickly; overcook it and it becomes rubbery very easily. So the secret of keeping calamari rings (sliced squid tubes) soft is: cook them for a very short time. In this recipe where they'll be plunged into a hot tomato salsa at boiling point it's 4 minutes at the most. Other seafood casseroles and sauces rely on the infusing flavour of the main ingredients. Not calamari however, so introduce awesome and versatile Thai fish sauce, but just a splash is enough. This wholesome creamy flavourful Mediterranean-style tomato-based sauce, with hints of the East, is best served with a pasta like taglierini or linguini - flat enough to grab the sauce and narrow enough not to compete with the shape of the calamari. Dinner party food.
Provided by CarolineOYum
Categories < 60 Mins
Time 35m
Yield 4-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 18
Steps:
- Over medium-high heat soften onion, carrot and celery in olive oil. After a few minutes add sweet pepper, garlic and chilli. Sautée for a few more minutes.
- Add a cup of white wine and reduce a bit, stirring, to create a stock base for your sauce.
- Add tomatoes, oregano, fish sauce, soya sauce, white pepper and turmeric. Bring sauce to the boil, stirring.
- Add calamari rings. Cook for 3 minutes then turn the heat down to medium-low.
- Add cream and allow sauce to bubble slightly.
- Serve immediately over thin flat pasta, and top with fragrant fresh leaves.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 969.6, Fat 25.5, SaturatedFat 8.8, Cholesterol 502.2, Sodium 1106.3, Carbohydrate 120.1, Fiber 9.2, Sugar 13.5, Protein 52.8
SPICY SAUTEED CALAMARI OVER PASTA
I found this recipe on eastvillagekitchen.com and made it with my wife. It came out so good I had to add to my cookbook. If you like Fra Diavolo you'll love this! The version we just made was a little too spicy - I might try cutting down on the red pepper next time - but it was still really delicious. Great over pasta, or on its own as an appetizer (double the serving count for appetizer).
Provided by Chef Remy 186273
Categories Spaghetti
Time 30m
Yield 4 dishes, 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Give the squid a good rinse after you cut them into 1/2 inch rings. Be sure to drain out the rinse water in a strainer.
- Heat the extra virgin olive oil in a wok or shallow saute pan.
- Add chopped garlic to the oil and cook until the garlic begins to become translucent or browns up a little.
- Add the calamari.
- Add tomato paste, red pepper, salt, pepper,
- Saute on medium heat for 8 minutes.
- Add a handful of italian parsley.
- Saute on medium heat for 2 more minutes.
- Serve with some additional parsley over pasta.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 193.2, Fat 9.1, SaturatedFat 1.5, Cholesterol 264.2, Sodium 178.4, Carbohydrate 9.5, Fiber 1.9, Sugar 2.4, Protein 19
Tips:
- Clean the calamari thoroughly: Remove the ink sac, beak, and eyes. Score the body and tentacles to remove any remaining grit.
- Use fresh calamari: Fresh calamari has a mild, sweet flavor and a firm texture. Avoid frozen calamari, which can be tough and chewy.
- Cook calamari quickly: Calamari only takes a few minutes to cook. Overcooking will make it tough and rubbery.
- Use a hot pan: A hot pan will help to sear the calamari and prevent it from sticking.
- Season the calamari well: Calamari has a mild flavor, so it's important to season it well. Use salt, pepper, garlic, and lemon to taste.
- Serve calamari immediately: Calamari is best served immediately after cooking. It can be served as an appetizer or main course.
Conclusion:
Calamari is a delicious and versatile seafood that can be cooked in a variety of ways. Whether you're frying, grilling, baking, or sautéing calamari, be sure to follow these tips to ensure that your dish is tender, flavorful, and delicious.
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