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A Fan-Favorite Fried Calamari with Matty Matheson



Matty shows you how to make a fan-favorite fried calamari.

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Let’s make some fucking calamari. You always order calamari! Do I order calamari? If there’s fried calamari on a menu, guaranteed, if you’re with 4 people it’s gonna get ordered. Calamari’s got these 2 little fins. You can just literally pull those off. Find your local fish monger, see if they got fresh calamari.

And if not, go find another finger monger that has frozen calamari and use that if you want. And usually, you just have to cut them open, take out the brain or the beak and you just pop out the beak, literally. You got 2 parts of the calamari.

We got our tentacles. Then, we have our body. You want to take these and slice ’em into rings. I’m just gonna cut these about a quarter-inch thick. And you can just take these and throw ’em right into the flour. Everyone’s waiting. It’s a pizza party. Everyone’s like, “What’s going on here? So hungry!”

And then just take all of these tentacles and we’re gonna throw them into our flour. Check this out. We’re just gonna toss these guys around. Into the egg. Into the egg. Now, the tricky part is we kinda gotta get all the breadcrumbs through all the middles of these guys. Whoa!

And then, what we’re left with, a big ‘ol funion. Calamari ring. We’re gonna fry our tentacles first. We are frying these at the same temperature, about 360 degrees. Now, the second that these turn golden brown, these puppies are done. These take like only a few seconds to cook.

So I want the outside to be crispy, golden brown, and the inside steamed, cooked, done. As soon as our calamari comes out… Woo! A little bit of salt. Just put these on the side, and now we’re gonna fry the rest of our rings. Drop our calamari in there.

As soon as these get golden brown, they’re done. If you overcook these things for a lot longer, they’re gonna turn chewy and shitty. Look at these, beautiful little calamari rings. Little lemon? Couple of lemon wedges. Oh mama. Imagine going to somebody’s house and not only are they having a pizza party,

But there’s crispy beautiful calamari. Oh! Mama! 00:02:13.800,00:00:00.000 That’s how you make calamari.

36 Comments

  3. @saxandphone6440

    Nothing can beat the classic Greek style of Kalamari… which is basically just unadulterated squid. Pan fried in olive oil, a bit of lemon, a bit of pepper, a bit of salt. Finished off with a sqeeze of line and a bit more pepper, on top of a beautiful fresh Peta bun. All this fried bread is not healthy for you; and it takes away from the flavor of the squid. Just do it the way I said and you won't regret it… fucking beautiful man and it won't give you a gut. You can eat it all day.

  9. @NiftyShifty1

    I don’t think he has enough shit tattooed on his hands or arms. Edit: what the hell was in the rub? Exactly 0 info given there. This guy sucks

  14. @ArteA2290

    I think I'm gonna try this. Hard to find Calamari that's my fav but this may be worth a shot. CALAMARI PARTY!!! 😂 😂 😂

  23. @gonietubenyc5741

    I remember as a kid grabbing a hand full at a wedding the buffet part of it and eating it thinking it was onion rings and FUCKED CALAMARI UP for me ever since amd sucks Bc it looks so good.

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