Calamari Fritti

Deep-Fried Squid

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Antonio Carluccio – The Collection

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 2012

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Ingredients

  • 400 g squid bodies and tentacles, cleaned
  • olive or groundnut oil, for deep-frying
  • 50

Method

Wash the squid and dry on kitchen paper. Cut the bodies into rings about 1.5cm thick.

Meanwhile, gently heat the oil in a deep frying pan. You will need enough oil to enable the individual pieces of squid to float, at least 5cm deep.

Mix the flours together in a medium bowl, and season with salt and pepper. Toss the squid pieces in the flour, shaking off any surplus.

Put