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Calamari with vermicelli

20 minutes
4 people
Rosé
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Ingredients
  • 400 g calamari
  • 100 g peeled, cooked red pepper preserve
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tbsp water
  • Salt and pepper
  • 1 tsp tinned tomato purée
  • 1 pinch garlic, grated
  • 20 small Nice black olives
  • Paprika flakes and powder
  • 1 lemon
  • 50 g vermicelli pasta
  • 30 g block parmesan
Direction

Make the sauce:
Put peppers, 1 tbsp olive oil, salt, pepper, 1 tsp tomato purée, pinch of garlic and 1 tbsp water in a blender. Purée then pass through a fine muslin strainer. Heat in a small saucepan for 2 minutes, stirring frequently.

Pour onto a dinner plate. Add the mixture of calamari and vermicelli, cooked in bouillon or very lightly sautéed in a non-stick pan over a high flame with lemon zest, a few drops of lemon juice and grated parmesan.

How to serve

Decorate with chopped whole black olives, slivers of parmesan, and paprika powder and flakes.

Recipe by Jacques Chibois – La Bastide Saint-Antoine – Grasse