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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have calamari with spicy chorizo sauce and cauliflower puree using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Calamari with spicy chorizo sauce and cauliflower puree:
- Make ready Proteins
- Take 2 calamari steaks
- Take 150 g chorizo, finely diced
- Make ready Fresh Produce
- Make ready 2 large, ripe tomatoes, finely diced
- Make ready 1 small head of cauliflower, cut into florets
- Get 2 cloves garlic, minced
- Make ready 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- Get Pantry
- Take 15 black olives, pitted
- Get 2 tablespoons red pepper pesto
- Prepare 1 liter chicken stock
- Make ready 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Make ready 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- Take 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- Get Salt
- Take Pepper
- Prepare Dairy
- Take 3 tablespoons butter
- Make ready 2 tablespoons cream
Preparation Pull the leaves off the cauliflower and cut out the core in a kind of cone-shaped section. Drain, add them to the mixing bowl, and. This creamy cauliflower puree is a great vegan and gluten-free meal. It's topped with crispy roasted chickpeas, roasted cauliflower, capers & rosemary.
Steps to make Calamari with spicy chorizo sauce and cauliflower puree:
- Bring stock to the boil in a small saucepan, lower heat, and add cauliflower. Leave to simmer over low heat until cauliflower florets are tender.
- In another small saucepan, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil and sauté diced chorizo for about 2 minutes, before adding smoked paprika and minced garlic and sautéing until soft and fragrant.
- Add diced tomatoes, pesto, olives and tomato puree. Leave to simmer over low heat.
- Drain cauliflower florets and, using a hand blender, blend into a puree with the cream and two tablespoons butter. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Cover and set aside on very low heat to keep warm.
- Season calamari steaks with salt and pepper
- Heat the rest of the olive oil and butter in a nonstick frying pan. Add calamari steaks and cook about 2 minutes a side. Drizzle lemon juice over steaks and remove from heat.
- Serve calamari steaks on cauliflower puree, with chorizo sauce on top. Season as needed. Serve with green vegetables of choice I prefer zesty broccoli! (Steamed broccoli finished in the pan with some butter and lemon zest)
When I'm craving an easy, cozy weeknight dinner, I make this cauliflower puree. For my cauliflower puree, I just steam the cauliflower, then blend it up then I use light ricotta cheese instead of sour cream and I also put in some minced garlic, blend again. For the cauliflower purée, melt the butter in a large pan over a low to medium heat and add the cauliflower florets. Spoon three dollops of the hot cauliflower purée in a straight line across the centre of each plate. Spoon drops or a squiggle of the chive oil over or around to decorate.
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