Kalamarakia Yemista

Stuffed squid

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Cooking of the Mediterranean

By Jane Grigson

Published 1991

  • About

A Greek version of one of Europe’s best fish recipes.

Ingredients

  • 6 medium-size squid, cleaned
  • 1 large onion, chopped
  • about 3 × 15 ml spoon (3

Method

To prepare the squid, pull the bag and head gently apart. Extract the transparent ‘pen’ from the bag and any soft part that remains. Rinse well, pulling off the thin purple veil on the outside. Chop the tentacles off, and cut these into small pieces. Examine the soft white innards, and you will see a dark-shadowed silver streak: this is the ink sac. Lift it away carefully with a knife and put i