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

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Calamari stuffed with cracked wheat and vegetables Recipe by Athanasia. Spoon some of this mixture into each squid tube and seal the ends by 'sewing' with a toothpick. Stuffed Calamari Mix the potatoes with salt and pepper and place them between the vegetables in the baking pan.

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

Once the onion becomes translucent, add the tomato sauce, the parsley and a pinch of salt. Add a pinch of hot pepper as desired and let everything cook at low heat. Stuffed with Feta and Mozzarella cheese and served fried. Fried Akawi cheese, served with fresh vegetables.

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).

Gently stuff the vegetable mozzarella mixture into each calamari. Don't overstuff because when they cook the squid shrinks and you don't want the stuffing to pop out. In another frying pan, add remaining olive oil and whole clove of garlic with peel on. A shell of cracked wheat, finely ground lean beef, minced onions stuffed with ground beef, pine nuts and middle eastern spices. Slowly add the warm water until a soft dough forms.

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