Balinese Grilled Calamari With Avocado Relish
From danadooley 16 years ago
- 10 minutes to make
- Serves 4
My version of a popular Indonesian restaurant dish, 'cumi bakar'. Mine is messier to prepare and not as pretty but I honestly think it tastes better. It has a mild, fragrant satay flavour. Not hot at all, the chilies in the relish are just window dressing ; )
Ingredients
- 6 cleaned and skinned calamari totalling 500 gm, leave whole shopping list
- 4 candlenuts (substitute macadamia nuts), chopped fine shopping list
- 4 cloves garlic shopping list
- 2 tsp black pepper seeds shopping list
- 1 tsp coriander seeds shopping list
- 1/2 a level tsp cumin seeds shopping list
- 4 tbs sweet thick soya sauce (kecap manis) shopping list
- 4ts oil shopping list
- 3tbs finely ground raw rice shopping list
- 1 level tsp sugar shopping list
- 1/2 a level tsp salt shopping list
- 1/2 a level tsp turmeric powder shopping list
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~ relish INGREDIENTS ~~~~~~~~~~ shopping list
- 1 small ripe but firm avocado, stone, skin and roughly cut shopping list
- 1 small red onion - peel and roughly cut shopping list
- 1/4 of a cucumber, discard seeds and roughly cut shopping list
- 3 birds eye chilies OR 2 fresh red chilies - very thinly sliced shopping list
- juice of 2 calamansi limes (cherry sized green asian limes) shopping list
- Fat pinch of salt (or to taste) shopping list
How to make it
- Pound or grind the pepper, coriander, cumin seeds and garlic to very fine paste.
- Make 4 - 6 horizontal slashes down the length of each calamari, taking care not to cut through. (see picture)
- Combine calamari, spice paste, chopped nuts, soya sauce, oil, ground rice, salt, sugar and turmeric powder and mix thoroughly.
- Heat oven grill to maximum. After 15 minutes, remove calamari from marinade and arrange on rack. Grill in very hot oven for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and serve with Avocado Relish and white rice.
- ~~~~~~~~~~ AVOCADO RELISH ~~~~~~~~~~
- Combine all relish ingredients and taste, adding more salt if necessary. Serve
Slashed calamari
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Candlenuts (buah keras)
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Coriander seeds
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Cumin seeds
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Kecap manis (sweet thick soya sauce)
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On the rack before grilling
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The Rating
Reviewed by 8 people-
I love Calamari, and this is a great recipe, new flavors for me to prepare this one!
berry
in Myrtle Beach loved it
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I love it all, the flavors must be terrific! got my 5
shirleyoma
in Cove loved it
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This looks very delicious, Dana and I'm saving to try. I love calamari and all the flavors and ingredients you got going on here. Looks like a party I'd like to attend... You get a high 5 from me, hon. Thanks so much!
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in Orlando loved it
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