Homemade Dried Tomatoes and Firefly Squid Pasta
Homemade Dried Tomatoes and Firefly Squid Pasta

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, homemade dried tomatoes and firefly squid pasta. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

The pasta is in the shape of a large ring, which when cooked looks exactly like squid rings. You can hardly tell them apart when they're coated in tomato sauce which makes it also fun to eat! In this recipe, I used Paccheri pasta, which is similar but larger.

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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have homemade dried tomatoes and firefly squid pasta using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Dried Tomatoes and Firefly Squid Pasta:
  1. Get 1 pack - however many you want to make [If making dried tomatoes at home, use cherry tomatoes]
  2. Make ready 2 tablespoons, minced [For store bought dried tomatoes, use semi-dried tomatoes]
  3. Get 180 grams Spaghetti
  4. Prepare 1 pack Firefly squid
  5. Prepare 1 clove Garlic
  6. Take 1 Red chili pepper
  7. Take 2 tbsp Olive oil
  8. Make ready 1 whole Celery leaves
  9. Prepare 1 optional Basil leaves

How To Cook A Perfect Risotto. Cook, stirring occasionally to prevent sticking, until al dente, according to the package instructions. Drain the pasta and squid, add to the sauce, toss to coat and serve immediately. Add the olives and lemon zest.

Instructions to make Homemade Dried Tomatoes and Firefly Squid Pasta:
  1. If making homemade dried tomatoes, half a pack of mini-tomatoes is good for 2 servings. It's convenient to make a lot for stock.
  2. Remove the stem from the tomatoes, slice in half, and remove the seeds. Place on an aluminum foil covered pan, cut-side up.
  3. Preheat an oven to 300F/150C and bake for 50 minutes to an hour. Let sit in the oven until cool. Once they're about half dried they're done!
  4. After they are cool, store in a jar with crushed garlic and thyme. Add just enough olive oil to cover. Store in your refrigerator for up to 2 weeks. With a stock of this, you'll be able to make pasta in no time.
  5. To prepare the pasta, add a little less than 1 tablespoon of salt to 1L of boiling water (just enough to give the water a salty flavor).
  6. While the pasta is boiling, shred the red peppers with the seeds removed, mince the garlic, and sauté in a pan with 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
  7. Once the garlic changes color, drop in the firefly squid and fry. Add the dried tomato and about 1 ladle of the pasta water.
  8. About 2 minutes before the pasta boils, remove and add to Step 6. Mix everything well and after the pasta stock has been absorbed, mix in the celery leaves and it's finished!
  9. The salt from the pasta water and the squid should provide enough flavoring. Season with salt to taste.
  10. Addendum: If you leave the tomatoes out in the sun for half a day, you'll have solar-powered sweetness! This also shortens the baking time!

Add the basil, mint, brown sugar, and salt. This is kind of like a sun dried tomato pesto pasta…but it's creamy. 🙂 You will never, ever get a store bought sauce with this much sun dried tomato flavour in my Creamy Sun Dried Tomato Pasta. Or simply by stirring through chopped sun dried tomato! Add a couple of tablespoons of reserved pasta water to the sauce, then tip the drained spaghetti into the squid sauce, adding more of the cooking liquid if you. Beyond being a no-fail method for preserving a bumper crop of plum or Roma tomatoes, oven-dried tomatoes stored in olive oil make a lovely hostess gift and are equally at home in your morning scrambled eggs as they are on pasta.

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