Encornets Farcies Stuffed Small Squid Recipes

Steps:

• Clean your squids, keeping the tentacles. Drain squid well.
• Start the filling: sweat 1 finely chopped onion in olive oil for 5 minutes, set aside to cool.
• Put on the sauce: finely mince the other onion, the garlic and the peppers (I blitz the lot in the mixer).
• Heat a good slurp of olive oil in a casserole, add onion/pepper mixture and sweat for 5 minutes. Add tomatoes, chopped, bouquet garni, pepper, salt, teaspoon of sugar and 2/3 of the white wine. Bring to the boil, and simmer for 20 minutes.
• Prepare stuffing: chop tentacles finely, and mix with sausagemeat, crumbled dried chilli, chopped parsley, cooked onion, pepper, salt, and remaining white wine.
• Stuff squids with this mixture and put into ovenproof dish in one layer. Remove bouquet garni from sauce, pour hot tomato sauce over squids, and bake, uncovered, in the middle of the oven at 180C for 1 hour.
• Serve hot or cold, with a green salad and some rustic bread.

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 375 degrees F.
• Heat the olive oil in a medium saute pan over medium heat until shimmering. Add the onions and salt and sweat until the onions turn translucent, about 1 to 2 minutes. Do not brown. Add the garlic and continue to cook for another minute. Transfer the mixture to a medium mixing bowl and set aside to cool.
• Clean the squid thoroughly and remove the heads from the tentacles and discard the heads. Turn the tubes inside out (since the outside skin tends to curl outward, it'll hold the stuffing better inside out), put into a bowl and set in the refrigerator until ready to use. Place the tentacles and the shrimp into the bowl of a food processor and pulse 6 to 8 times or until there are no large pieces visible. Do not process until smooth. Transfer to the mixing bowl along with the onions and garlic. Add the bread crumbs, tomato, lemon zest, ginger, parsley and pepper. Stir to combine well.
• Place the mixture into a resealable freezer bag and snip 1 corner. You may use a pastry bag with a tip just small enough to fit into the end of the tubes. Pipe the stuffing into the tubes, dividing the mixture evenly between them. Do not over-stuff.
• Place the tubes into an 8 by 11-inch glass baking dish and cover with the tomato sauce. Cover tightly with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes. Serve immediately.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
• Peel and devein the shrimp. Rinse well and pat dry. Split the shrimp partly through, slicing from the upper curved portion of each shrimp. Place each shrimp on a flat surface and press down to open partly, butterfly style.
• Meanwhile, cook the egg in boiling water about 12 minutes. Drain. Set aside.
• At the same time, put the bread crumbs in a flat pan and run briefly under the broiler until golden brown, stirring occasionally. Set aside.
• Heat the butter in a saucepan and add the onion, garlic, green peppers and celery. Cook, stirring, until vegetables are wilted but still crisp. Add the bread crumbs, paprika, oregano, basil, salt and pepper.
• Peel and chop the egg. Add it to the bread crumb mixture. Blend well.
• Lay out the shrimp on a flat surface, split side down. Heap an equal portion of the stuffing on top of each. Press the stuffing down and smooth over the top.
• Lightly oil a baking sheet or pan large enough to hold the shrimp in one layer. Arrange the shrimp over the bottom. Brush the tops lightly with the olive oil.
• Place the shrimp in the oven and bake eight to 10 minutes.