Name: Baby Squid in its Own Ink (Squink) (Calamares en su Tinta)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Spain
Ingredients: Salt; Plenty of chopped fresh parsley; Freshly ground black pepper; 2 slices of bread, cut into chunks; 300ml (½ pint) fish or chicken stock; 4 tablespoons olive oil; 150ml (¼ pint) red wine; 1 large onion, finely chopped; 4 cloves of garlic, crushed; 1.5kg (3½lb) baby squid, cleaned and prepared, see notes on page 205, with the ink sacs reserved

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Floyd on Spain

By Keith Floyd

Published 1992

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Ingredients

1.5kg (3½lb) baby squid, cleaned and prepared, see notes on page 205, with the ink sacs reserved
150ml (

Method

Put the ink sacs into a sieve over a bowl and press them with a wooden spoon to extract the ink. Pour half the wine through the sieve to remove more of the ink — in fact, pass this liquid through the sieve two or three times to get as much ink out of the sacs as possible.

Chop the tentacles and fins, leaving the squid hoods or pouches in one piece. Heat the oil in a large frying pan and