Step-by-Step Guide to Make Perfect Stewed Calamari in Tomato Sauce

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, stewed calamari in tomato sauce. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook stewed calamari in tomato sauce using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Stewed Calamari in Tomato Sauce:

1. Get 2-4 tbsp olive oil
2. Get 1 large chopped onion
3. Take 1-2 cups carrots, cut into quarter inch slices
4. Take 2-3 cloves garlic
5. Get 6 oz no salt tomato paste
6. Make ready 1 cup low/no sodium chicken/vegetable broth
7. Get 28 oz can of crushed tomato
8. Take 1-2 pounds cleaned squid; sliced into rings and tentacles roughly chopped
9. Make ready 1 tbsp fennel seed
10. Take 1 tbsp black peppercorn
11. Take 2-3 tsp dried oregano
12. Make ready 2-3 tsp dried basil
13. Make ready 2-3 tsp parsley flakes
14. Get Pinch crushed red pepper; or more

Instructions to make Stewed Calamari in Tomato Sauce:

1. Heat the olive oil in a pot over a medium high heat, then add the onions to saute. Cook the onions until they start to become translucent, about 5 minutes
2. Once the onions start to color, add the carrots. Let the carrots cook for about another 5 minutes.
3. After that, add the garlic and tomato paste. Let it cook together with onions and carrots; about 3 minutes.
4. Pour the chicken broth into the pot. Increase the heat to high, then let it boil down to about half.
5. After you add the broth, grind the fennel seeds, black peppercorn, dried oregano, dried basil, parsley flakes and crushed red pepper. Let it grind for about 5-10 seconds, until it is at the consistency you like. Once done, add to the pot and stir.
6. Add the crushed tomatoes, reduce the heat to medium and let simmer for about 5 minutes.
7. Slowly stir the squid into pot. Once again, reduce the heat to medium low or low. Let the squid simmer in the sauce for about an hour. Stir every 15-20 minutes as it simmers. After an hour, test the squid to make sure it is tender. If not tender, check on it every 15-20 minutes, until done.
8. Enjoy!

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