Don’t be perturbed by cooking calamari or squid dishes as we have ample recipes that walk you through how to cook calamari so it’s tender (and not chewy!). For best results, source the freshest calamari you can. The cephalopod cooks quite easily and quickly, and, provided you’ve brought top-shelf produce, should give up tender, yielding flesh.
From a simple fried calamari recipe to calamari rings made with a light flour mixture to ensure a perfect golden brown coating, these calamari squid recipes have you covered. We also have calamari salads, a paella recipe, squid spaghetti and a few Asian-style squid recipes. Of course, we also have classic salt-and-pepper squid you know and love (with plenty of black pepper for punch) that’s ready in less than 30 minutes — just don’t be shy about squeezing lemon juice upon serving.
Best calamari recipes for summer cooking

Salt-and-pepper squid

Grilled squid with rouille and chilli

Napier Quarter’s squid-ink spaghetti with cuttlefish, green pea and chilli

Fragrant seafood and burghul parcels

Grilled calamari salad with yoghurt and ouzo dressing

Sean Moran’s calamari fried in its ink with chilli aïoli

Jicama and green mango salad with grilled calamari

Grilled calamari with herbs and crisp shallots

Frank Camorra’s calamari cooked in olive oil with spiced beetroot salad

Calamari with tomatoes, capers and olives

Mixed grilled seafood salad with lemon mignonette

A short history of brodetto, and a recipe too

Chilli squid-ink spaghetti

Tony Tan’s three-cup calamari

Spiced squid with sweet and sour mango sauce

Squid, chorizo, spelt, blood orange and black garlic

Squid with fennel and artichokes

David Thompson’s deep-fried squid with garlic and peppercorns

Grilled squid (Pla meuk yang)

Raes on Wategos’s calamari and zucchini skewers with ‘nduja vinaigrette

Calamari with spiced eggplant

Squid kara-age with Japanese mayonnaise

Salad of grilled baby calamari, radicchio and potatoes

Alpha’s calamari with fava, barley rusks, capers and rocket

Spaghettini with calamari, rosemary and lemon
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Calamari and pounded sambal with cabbage salad

Calamari and corn tacos with salsa verde

Morcilla-stuffed squid with lentils and saffron alioli

Phil Wood’s kipfler potato and calamari Greek salad

Braised beans with chorizo and calamari

Sicilian calamari salad

Grilled calamari with fennel and lemon salt

Fried squid and potato with chilli and garlic

Arroz negro (Squid with rice cooked in squid ink)

Tagliolini al nero di seppia con calamari (Squid-ink tagliolini with calamari)

Frank Camorra’s party paella

Squid with roast tomato dressing, Sicilian olives and garlic crumbs

Grilled calamari with zhoug

Lau’s Family Kitchen’s calamari with shrimp sauce

Taglierini with squid, garlic and chilli

Chilled spiced tomato soup with barbecued squid

Barbecued squid with romesco sauce

Captain Moonlite’s soffritto, southern calamari, saffron orzo and mint

Bar Saracen’s hummus bi calamari
