Grilled Calamari Salad With Frisee And Israeli Couscous

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While the old standby of fried calamari can be a wonderful dish, what one usually gets in a run of the mill restaurant are rubbery, underseasoned, overbreaded, tasteless poor cousins of the real deal. On the other hand, grilling them is much easier, less labor intensive, less costly (all the frying fat) and, let’s be honest, damn near impossible to screw up by a normal person with even just a tiny bit of talent for cooking. Grilled squid/calamari are also a perfect ingredient for great green-leaves salad, fresh pasta salad, or, as featured here, a combination of both. 🙂
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Bon Appétit ! Life is Good !
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P.S.
Read about my lunch in the Key’s last Sunday at the bottom of this page 🙂
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Preparation :
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: season 1 lb large squid or calamari rings with sriracha, granulated garlic, kosher salt and 1 tblsp lemon juice

: cook 1 cup Israeli couscous in salted water, rinse, drain

: to the couscous, add the heart of a frisee salad, 1/2 cup finely diced red and yellow peppers, 1/2 julienned sweet onion, 1/4 cup EVO, 2 tblsp lemon juice, Kosher salt and freshly grd black pepper to taste

: grill the squid/calamari in a VERY HOT grill pan until cooked through, about 30 seconds on each side

: remove to a plate, drizzle with EVO

: add 1/2 of the squid/calamari to the salad, reserve the other half for garnish, plate the salad, top with the remaining squid/calamari ; serves 4-6 appetizer or 2 main course

: Grilled Calamari Salad With Frisee And Israeli Couscous

: Grilled Calamari Salad With Frisee And Israeli Couscous

: Grilled Calamari Salad With Frisee And Israeli Couscous

: Grilled Calamari Salad With Frisee And Israeli Couscous

: Grilled Calamari Salad With Frisee And Israeli Couscous

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This is what Florida / Miami living is all about –
We want fresh seafood – let’s take a quick trip to have lunch in the Keys.
First stop Key Largo for stone crab claws appetizer at the “Key Largo Fisheries”, then on to Isla Morada for a beautiful sunset and blackened mahi mahi main course, washed down with a couple of brewsky’s while listening to live rock music right on the beach at my favorite Florida beach bar, “Loreley”.
Life is Good !
If you think seafood is cheap around here –
10 claws on paper baskets (only self service) = $ 120.00, sauce and tax extra
Paradise sure has its price