Buffalo Calamari

If you love Buffalo wings, try this delicious mashup of two favorite appetizers: homemade calamari drizzled with blue cheese and hot sauce, topped with a cooling tomato relish.

• Preparation Time: 30 mins
• Cooking Time: 5 mins
• Total Time: 35 mins
• Calories: 887 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• vegetable oil for frying
• 1 pinch cayenne pepper, or to taste
• 1 pound baby calamari - rinsed, dried, and sliced into rings
• 0.25 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 0.5 teaspoon salt
• 0.25 cup diced red onion
• 0.25 cup diced celery
• 0.5 cup diced tomatoes
• 0.25 cup crumbled blue cheese, or to taste
• 0.25 cup blue cheese salad dressing, or to taste
• 0.25 cup Buffalo wing sauce (such as Frank's RedHot®), or to taste

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

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.

Step 2

Heat oil in a frying pan over medium to medium-high heat to 395 degrees F (200 degrees C).

Step 3

While oil heats, combine tomatoes, onion, and celery in a bowl. Set tomato relish aside.

Step 4

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.

Step 5

Top with crumbled blue cheese, blue cheese salad dressing, hot sauce, and a sprinkling of tomato relish.