[Greek] How to cook Bulgur-stuffed squid with tomato and okra

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Ingredients

  • 16 whole baby squid (700 g gross or 500 g cleaned baby squid tubes and tentacles), plus 16 toothpicks
  • 60 ml olive oil, plus extra to finish
  • 400 g okra, trimmed
  • 2 small onions, finely diced (240 g net)
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp sweet paprika, plus extra to finish
  • 3 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 80 ml raki or ouzo
  • 5 tomatoes, cut into 1 cm dice (560 g)
  • 2 tsp tomato paste
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 tsp caster sugar
  • 5 g picked dill
  • salt and pepper
Stuffing
  • 100 g bulgur, blanched for 1 minute and drained (275 g prepared)
  • 20 g dill, roughly chopped
  • 15 g mint, roughly chopped
  • 10 g oregano, roughly chopped
  • 1 courgete, tcoarsely grated (220g net)
  • 1 lemon, zest finely grated
  • 40 g walnuts, chopped
  • 50 g currants
  • 15 ml lemon juice
  • 45 ml olive oil

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