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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Greek >> Greek

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 325°. | 2. This first part seems a bit gross, but it's not…really. To clean the squid grasp the head just below the eyes, pull it out from the rest of the body (the "mantle"), and set it aside. Pull away the thin purplish membrane on the outside of the mantle. Pull out and discard any "entrails" and the thin cartilage from the inside. Try to get it in one piece. It's easier that way to get it all. Remove back fins gently, trying not to rip holes in the mantle. If the mantles are torn they will split open when baked. Rinse well. | 3. Cut tentacles off just below the eyes. Push beak out, remove, and finely mince the remaining tentacles. Reserve. These will be sautéed in the stuffing later. | 4. Cook the rice in 2 cups of water and a little salt. Cover, bring to a boil, turn down heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Let sit off the heat for 5 minutes. | 5. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, heat 1/4 cup of the olive oil and saute onion until softened. Add garlic and cook for 1 minute more. Add the currants, pine nuts and chopped tentacles. Season with half the salt and pepper. Cook until the squid has turned opaque (a little pink). Add the white wine and cook until it evaporates. | 6. Stir in the cooked rice, mint and cayenne. Mix to incorporate all the ingredients well. Taste and adjust seasoning. | 7. Carefully fill the prepared squid tubes to 3/4 full. They will shrink when cooking. You can do it with a spoon but it's messy and takes forever. I use a plastic bag with the corner cut off. Fill with stuffing mixture, snip off the corner, stick the end in each tube and squeeze. Much easier. | 8. Place the filled tubes side by side in a 9x13 baking dish. Sprinkle with remaining salt and pepper. Pour remaining 1 cup of oil and 1 cup of wine around the squid. | 9. Cover with foil and bake for 45 minutes. Serve with a little of the olive oil/wine mixture drizzled on top. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
squid	12			-	-	-	-
olive oil	1 1/4	cups		2386.8	0.0	0.0	270.0
onion	1	cup	chopped	64.0	14.944	1.76	0.16
rice	1	cup		678.95	141.0625	13.949000000000002	5.92
water	2	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
pine nut	1/4	cup		227.1375	4.4145	4.6204	23.0749
garlic clove	4		chopped	-	-	-	-
currant	1/4	cup		17.64	4.3064	0.392	0.1148
white wine	1 1/2	1/2		-	-	-	-
mint	1	tablespoon	dried	-	-	-	-
cayenne pepper	1/2	teaspoon		2.862	0.5097	0.1081	0.1554
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
pepper	1	tablespoon	ground	17.319000000000003	4.4126	0.7169	0.2249

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.