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Lemon Calamari and Cherry Tomato Salad

Added by chocolateshavin | Wed 28 Jan 2009 @ 12:03

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Ingredients
4 calamari, tubes and tentacles

8 medium size cherry tomatoes

1/2 lemon, juice and zest

Extra virgin olive oil

2 cloves of garlic, crushed and minced

2 scallion, sliced

A couple sprigs of fresh thyme, picked

Salt and pepper to taste

Method
Slit the calamari tubes on one side to open them up, and lightly score one side. Place them in a bowl and add half the lemon juice, the zest, the garlic, half of the thyme, salt and pepper and a good drizzle of olive oil. Leave to marinate while you make the tomato salad. Quarter the tomatoes and place them in a bowl. Add the sliced scallions, the rest of the lemon juice and the rest of thyme. Drizzle with olive oil and adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper.

Get your grill on medium high heat. Once it’s hot, place the calamari on the grill. gently pressing down so they don’t curl up too much. After 1 minute turn them around. Make sure to pour the extra thyme and garlic over top. Cook for another minute. Remove from the heat and slice in bite-size pieces. Add to the tomato salad and toss. Adjust seasoning. Enjoy!

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1. by angelina on Sun 16 Aug 2009 @ 13:55

I come from Greece , where there is an abundance of calamari in the summer. My favorite way of cooking calamari is to clean it inside -out -keeping the tentacles- and , without marinating it, grill it on a very hot grill with just a bit of salt while regularly brushing it with olive oil. Once they are nice and crunchy, well browned, I take them out, brush them with my home-made pesto sauce and serve them on a white platter with chopped parsley. I serve with grilled thick bread slices, grilled on the same grill with the calamari flavors on , and serve bread in a deep ceramic bowl with olive oil drizzled on it , coarse sea salt and oregano. KALI OREXI! (bon appetite in greek...)