Playa Blanca squid with sweet onions

Name: Playa Blanca squid with sweet onions
Yield: Serves 4-5
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 2 level teaspoons coriander seeds; 500 g Spanish onions; sea salt, cayenne pepper; 150 ml unsweetened apple juice; juice of 1 large orange; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 2 rounded teaspoons dried oregano; 2 rounded tablespoons tomato purée; 1 kg squid, cleaned (with tentacles)

Preparation info

Serves
4-5

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Orchards in the Oasis

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 2010

About

My children always wanted Maria to cook them fried squid and chips, but in the earlier years she often prepared squid in another delicious way, which I have tried to reproduce here.

Ingredients

500 g Spanish onions
2 level teaspoons coriander seeds
2 t

Europe
Spain
Main course
Stew
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

Peel and quarter the onions, then chop fairly small. Crush the coriander seeds finely, using a pestle and mortar. Heat the olive oil in a flameproof dish or wide pan over a medium heat. Add the onions and crushed coriander seeds and stir together for a minute or two. Now add the orange juice, apple juice and tomato purée.

Cover the dish and simmer very gently over the lowest possible he