One ingredient that I had really not cooked with very much before traveling to Italy was fresh squid. I love fried or sautéed calamari, but it just isn’t an ingredient that is readily available in local grocery stores in Atlanta like it is here in Italy. I love the abundant use of fresh squid in cooking in southern Italy—you see it grilled and served alongside grilled vegetables or an insalata mista, or sometimes stuffed with pureed potatoes and braised in a white wine-broth until tender, or in this case, simply sautéed along with fresh shrimp and cherry tomatoes in a shrimp stock, and served quite elegantly over a plate of lemon-parsley pasta. Any seafood stock would work well in this recipe, as well as any pasta you prefer, but the ultimate pairing with these ingredients is handmade scialatielli flavored with fresh parsley and lemon zest, and homemade shrimp stock. I have included both recipes so that if you wish, you can replicate this dish that I enjoy oh-so-very much.
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Lemon-Parsley Pasta with Shrimp & Squid
Ingredients:
- * Recipes Courtesy of Mami Camilla Cooking School*
- For the scialatielli: (or use your favorite fettuccine or linguine)
- Make a mound of 400 grams of semolina flour on a flat work surface. Make a well in the middle of the flour and add in the zest of 2 lemons, 200 ml water, and a half a cup of chopped Italian parsley. Mix and knead the pasta dough and when it is no long sticky, wrap the ball of dough in plastic wrap and let it sit for 20 minutes covered.
- Roll the dough through a pasta machine starting at the thicket setting of 10 a few times, and then down to 8, 6, 5, and 4, one time on each number. Keep the dough floured with semolina flour during this process. Using a fettuccine pasta cutter, cut strips of scialatielli in about 4-inch lengths.
- To cook the pasta, boil it in salted water for 2 minutes or until al dente.
- For the shrimp stock:
- Shrimp shells and heads
- ¼ cups of olive oil
- Small dice of carrots, celery and onion
- 2 cloves of peeled garlic
- 1 potato, cut into cubes
- 1 sprig of fresh rosemary
- 1 bay leaf
- Salt and pepper In a large pot, cook the shrimp shells and heads in the olive oil over medium-high heat, until the shrimp shells and heads turn dark pink in color. Add in the remaining ingredients to the pot and cover with water. Bring the mixture to a boil and cook for 30 minutes. Strain the stock, season with salt and pepper to taste, and either use immediately, or cool to room temperature and freeze.
- To put it all together:
- Toss the cooked pasta with sautéed squid (tentacles and rings) and cooked shrimp tails; plus a few halved cherry tomatoes and some of the shrimp stock you made. To serve, finish off with a sprinkling of basil, parsley, and some chili oil if desired.
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