Calamari Ripieni di Gamberi

Squid Stuffed with Prawns

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4-6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Antonio Carluccio – The Collection

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 2012

  • About

“This recipe comes from Giulianova in Abbruzi, where it is served in many of the restaurants. I’ve heard that the idea came from some fisherman who had seen a voracious squid with a whole prawn in its stomach! The rest is easy to imagine.”

Ingredients

  • 8 medium squid (about 800g cleaned weight)
  • 16 small raw prawns, or 8 larger ones, peeled
  • 4 tbsp

Method

Unless they are already prepared, clean the squid, cutting off the heads and beak. Leave the pouches whole, and keep the little bunches of tentacles together; discard the heads. Remove the transparent quill from each body pouch, then rinse.

Chop the tentacles finely, and chop the prawns roughly if they are large. Sauté them together in 1 tbsp of the olive oil for minutes.

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