Description
A delicious take on everyone’s two favorite appetizers – Buffalo wings and fried calamari! Fresh, homemade calamari drizzled with blue cheese and hot sauce, topped with a cooling tomato relish. Hard to give a serving size, as my daughter Evan and I finish a whole recipe between us, or I’ll make a plate for myself (only) as an entree! The beauty is, you can adjust just about all of the ingredients to taste!
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 pinch cayenne pepper, or to taste
- 1 pound baby calamari – rinsed, dried, and sliced into rings
- vegetable oil for frying
- ½ cup diced tomatoes
- ¼ cup diced red onion
- ¼ cup diced celery
- ¼ cup crumbled blue cheese, or to taste
- ¼ cup blue cheese salad dressing, or to taste
- ¼ cup Buffalo wing sauce (such as Frank’s RedHot®), or to taste
Instructions
- Combine flour
- salt
- black pepper
- and cayenne pepper in a resealable plastic bag and shake to combine. Add calamari and make sure all pieces are coated.
- Heat oil in a frying pan over medium to medium-high heat to 395 degrees F (200 degrees C).
- While oil heats
- combine tomatoes
- onion
- and celery in a bowl. Set tomato relish aside.
- Shake excess flour from calamari and drop calamari into the hot oil in batches. Fry until golden brown
- about 1 minute per batch. Drain on paper towels. Transfer cooked calamari to a serving plate.
- Top with crumbled blue cheese
- blue cheese salad dressing
- hot sauce
- and a sprinkling of tomato relish.
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 5 mins
Total Time: 35 mins
Servings: 4