Fritto Misto with Two Mustard Sauce

Name: Fritto Misto with Two Mustard Sauce
Prep time: 47 min
Cook time: 47 min
Total time: 47 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 237 milliliters uncooked Arborio rice; 8 servings Buttermilk, for moistening; 454 grams cleaned calamari (not giant squid); 8 servings Peanut or canola oil, for deep-frying; 59 milliliters Champagne vinegar; 79 milliliters Dijon mustard; 1 medium fennel bulb, sliced lengthwise 1/8-inch thick; 710 milliliters all-purpose flour; 79 milliliters honey mustard; 1 lemon, very thinly sliced (discard ends); 473 milliliters assorted mushrooms, cleaned, trimmed, and sliced if large; 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper; 2 Tbsps salt; 8 servings Sea salt; 237 milliliters semolina; 1 teaspoon minced shallots; 2 teaspoons black or yellow mustard seeds, toasted

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Fritto Misto with Two Mustard Sauce a try. One portion of this dish contains roughly 20g of protein, 21g of fat, and a total of 591 calories. This pescatarian recipe serves 8. Head to the store and pick up honey mustard, mustard seeds, semolina, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the lemon you could follow this main course with the Lemon Shortbread Cookies with Lemon Icing

Instructions

Whisk together mustards, vinegar, mustard seeds, and shallots.

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Mustard Seeds

Shallot

Vinegar

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Whisk

Add salt, to taste.

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Salt

Grind the rice in a blender until very fine. In a bowl, stir together the ground rice, semolina, flour, salt, and pepper.

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Semolina

Pepper

All Purpose Flour

Rice

Salt

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Bowl

Heat several inches of oil to 375 degrees F in a deep fryer or a wide, deep, heavy pot. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees F.

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Cooking Oil

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Oven

Pot

Slit the calamari bodies open so they lie flat.

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Squid

Place calamari (bodies and tentacles), mushrooms, fennel, and lemon in separate bowls. Toss each with enough buttermilk to moisten them. Dip the calamari generously in the rice batter, using enough to fully coat.

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Buttermilk

Mushrooms

Squid

Fennel

Lemon

Rice

Dip

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Working in batches (it's important not to overcrowd the pot), fry until golden brown and crisp, and then transfer to a tray lined with paper towels. Season immediately with salt.

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Salt

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