Italian
Stuffed Squid with Porcini and Chestnuts
by Manu Food · 60K subscribers on YouTube
A stuffed squid recipe with an autumnal twist, featuring porcini mushrooms and chestnuts. The squid is filled with a mixture of its own tentacles, porcini, bread crumbs, and chestnuts, then browned and served with a chestnut and yogurt sauce.
- Difficulty
- medium
Ingredients
6 items- CalamariWhole squid; tentacles used in filling
- PorciniFresh porcini mushrooms
- Castagne PrecottePre-cooked chestnuts; used both in filling and sauce
- BreadcrumbsSoaked and squeezed bread crumbs
- Olive OilExtra virgin olive oil
- YogurtPlain yogurt for the sauce
Method
- Prepare a chestnut and yogurt sauce by blending cooked chestnuts with yogurt until creamy.
- Sauté the squid tentacles in a pan with a drizzle of oil.
- Add sliced porcini mushrooms and cook briefly.
- Add soaked and squeezed bread crumbs and crumbled chestnuts; season and mix well.
- Stuff the squid bodies with the prepared filling.
- Brown the stuffed squid in a pan with a little olive oil.
- Serve the squid with the chestnut and yogurt sauce.
