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Calamari Salad Recipe

Simple to prepare, smacks of the sea, and a lovely light lunch! What more could you ask?

Difficulty

Prep Time

45 minutes

Cooking Time

5 minutes

Serves

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Recipe Ingredients

400 g frozen calamari rings
180 ml SPAR milk
30 g SPAR Choice Butter
30 ml SPAR Olive Oil
Salt, white and freshly ground black pepper
3 x 30 g packs SPAR Freshline rocket (or 1 pack, mixed with a 80 g pillow-pack of SPAR Freshline Sweet Baby Greens Mix)
Optional: Seasoned bacon flavoured sprinkles, SPAR Salad & Chip Sauce

In a shallow dish, soak the frozen calamari rings in the milk for close to1 hour. Drain off, (if you have a cat, it will love you for this drained milk!)
Transfer the rings into a colander, and pour over a kettle full of boiling water, and shake to drain off well. Loosely pat the rings with paper towel to soak up excess moisture. In a pan, heat half the olive oil and butter. Toss in half the calamari and stir-fry over the highest heat until it turns white +- 1 minute. Keep this batch warm, and repeat the process with the remaining butter, oil and calamari.
Season very generously with salt and both peppers.
Dish out warm, onto a bed of rocket/baby green mix, and dress lightly with a squeeze each of fresh lemon juice, a scattering of Bacon flavoured Seasoned Sprinkles, and a generous drizzle of Salad &Chip Sauce.

Add in a scattering of SPAR Freshline mini plum tomatoes OR slivers of unpeeled nectarines, for summer seasonal appeal.