Squid Meatballs

Hi everyone! Yesterday I cooked this delicious and healthy dish for dinner.  This is a traditional recipe from Cadiz, in the South of Spain. My granny used to cook this during Lent. Squid or cuttlefish can be used to prepare this recipe. This can be frozen once cooked and it will keep all its flavour and properties. It takes a little time to prepare it, but it is very easy and the result is absolutely worthwhile. So don´t be scared of this long list of ingredients.

Ingredients:

(Serves 4)

For the meatballs:

400 g. fresh squid (cleaned)

20 g fresh parsley

2 cloves of garlic

200 g bread

1 egg

Salt and pepper to taste

100 g breadcrumbs

100 g flour

150 ml extra virgin olive oil

For the sauce:

1 onion

1 pinch of saffron

200 ml Spanish white wine

1 fish stock cube

500 ml water

1 bay leaf

 

Difficulty and cooking time:

Easy

1 hour and a half

Preparation:

Clean the squid and rinse well under cold running water, then cut it into small pieces.

Put the squid pieces, the parsley and 2 cloves of garlic in a food processor and mix for 30 seconds.

Then add the bread, one egg, salt and pepper to taste and mix for 20 seconds.

Put the resulting mixture on a large bowl.

Add the breadcrumbs and mix thoroughly using a spoon.

Wet your hands, so the mixture won´t stick to them and make the meatballs.

Coat the meatballs in flour. Put the olive oil in a frying pan over a medium heat and cook until golden brown.

Place the squid meatballs in a large pot.

Julienne the onion

Stir fry the onion in the olive oil you've used to fry the squid meatballs for 5 minutes. Then add the white wine.

Cook over a medium heat for a couple of minutes. Then add the pinch of saffron, stir well and pour the resulting sauce in the pot with the meatballs.

Dissolve the fish stock cube in half a litre of boiling water. Then add about 200 ml of this stock to the pot with the meatballs and stir well.

Add a leaf of bay, cover with lid and cook over a low heat for 5 minutes stirring occasionally. Then our dish will be ready.

Decorate with chopped parsley and serve hot with homemade fries and salad.

I hope you like it!
See you soon,

María