Encornets Farcies Stuffed Small Squid Recipes

ENCORNETS FARCIES - STUFFED SMALL SQUID

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.

STUFFED SQUID

Steps:

• Pull the head and squeeze to remove the ink sack and set aside.
• Remove both eye and the beak in the center of the tentacle.
• Marinate the squid in soya sauce, lemon juice, salt and pepper for 30 about Minutes.
• Put the head in boiling water and cook until tender, then chop into small pieces.
• Heat oil in a pan, then add garlic,onion, tomato, chopped tentacles and shrimp,and sautéd for few minutes.
• Season with salt and pepper, add flour mixture keep stirring . Cook for another 2 minutes. Set aside. Let cool.
• Then stuff the squids with the above mixture. Secure the ends with a toothpicks.
• Heat up another wok; add oil and shallow fry squid for 3 minutes on each side.
• Cooking Tips :.
• For dipping sauce, combined soya with lemon juice and birds eye chilli.
• You can add or use fish sauce instead of salt.
• For thicker sauce, combine 3 tbsp oyster sauce, 1 tsp sesame oil, 2 tbsp balsamic or Chinese black vinegar, 2 tsp honey and a small ginger finely chopped.

SQUID STUFFED WITH LOBSTER

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil, add the lobster, and cook for 5 minutes. Pull the lobster out of the pot, discard the water, and chill the lobster.
• Shell the lobster, keeping as much meat as possible. Dice the meat into 1/4-inch (6-mm) cubes, and keep the shells. Set both aside.
• Bring a small pot of water to a boil, add the pasta, and boil for about 4 minutes, or until shy of al dente. Drain and transfer to a decent-size bowl.
• Add the lobster meat, tomato sauce, mayo, Tabasco, Pernod, and parsley to the pasta and stir to mix. Season with salt and pepper and set aside.
• Crush the lobster shells into 1-inch pieces. In a sauté pan, sauté the shells in a film of olive oil over medium-high heat until the lobster water is gone from the shells. Add the water and unsalted butter and simmer over medium heat for about 20 minutes. Don't let it become dry, but almost dry. You should have about 1/2 cup (125 ml) liquid. Strain the liquid and set aside.
• Preheat the oven to 425°F (220°C). Stuff the pasta mixture into the squid tubes, and seal the open end of each tube with a couple of nonmentholated toothpicks. Just stick them right across the opening, pinching the tentacles into the opening. Lay the stuffed beauties side by side in a baking dish or baking pan. It should be a snug fit so the pan is less likely to dry out. Pour the strained lobster juice over them, then top with a few pats of escargot butter and the bread crumbs.
• Bake for about 15 minutes, or until bubbly. Remove the toothpicks and serve with a handful of olive oil-dressed cress (greens) on each plate.
• Wear gloves; many people have contact allergies to squid. Clean the squid in the sink under cold running water.
• Rip off the head. It's the part from which the legs hang down.
• Pinch away the beak. It's on the center, nestled among the legs.
• Slide out the blades. There are two of them, plasticlike, along the inside of the tube.
• Peel off the dark skin.
• Rinse the squid well, inside and out, to eliminate all traces of mucus and sand.