Top 45+ calamari recipes worth your time
- Best calamari recipes for autumn entertaining
- Grilled squid with rouille and chilli
- Sean Moran’s calamari fried in its ink with chilli aïoli
- Jicama and green mango salad with grilled calamari
- Grilled calamari with herbs and crisp shallots
- Frank Camorra’s calamari cooked in olive oil with spiced beetroot salad
- A short history of brodetto, and a recipe too
- Chilli squid-ink spaghetti
- Tony Tan’s three-cup calamari
- Spiced squid with sweet and sour mango sauce
- Squid, chorizo, spelt, blood orange and black garlic
- Squid with fennel and artichokes
- David Thompson’s deep-fried squid with garlic and peppercorns
- Grilled squid (Pla meuk yang)
- Raes on Wategos’s calamari and zucchini skewers with ‘nduja vinaigrette
- Salad of grilled baby calamari, radicchio and potatoes
- Alpha’s calamari with fava, barley rusks, capers and rocket
- Morcilla-stuffed squid with lentils and saffron alioli
- Phil Wood’s kipfler potato and calamari Greek salad
- Braised beans with chorizo and calamari
- Fried squid and potato with chilli and garlic
- Arroz negro (Squid with rice cooked in squid ink)
- Tagliolini al nero di seppia con calamari (Squid-ink tagliolini with calamari)
- Squid with roast tomato dressing, Sicilian olives and garlic crumbs
- Lau’s Family Kitchen’s calamari with shrimp sauce
- Taglierini with squid, garlic and chilli
- Bar Saracen’s hummus bi calamari
Don’t be perturbed by cooking calamari or squid dishes as we have ample recipes that walk you through how to cook calamari so it’s tender (and not chewy!). For best results, source the freshest calamari you can. The cephalopod cooks quite easily and quickly, and, provided you’ve brought top-shelf produce, should give up tender, yielding bites.
From a simple fried calamari recipe to calamari rings made with a light flour mixture to ensure a perfect golden brown coating, these calamari squid recipes have you covered. We also have calamari salads, a paella recipe, squid spaghetti and a few Asian-style squid recipes. Of course, we also have classic salt-and-pepper squid you know and love (with plenty of black pepper for punch) that’s ready in less than 30 minutes — just don’t be shy about squeezing lemon juice upon serving.
Don’t mistake this versatile seafood as a warm weather dish. Battered or grilled squid may be a beach day attraction, but a hearty paella or warming brodetto are the ideal way to enjoy calamari when the days get cooler.
Best calamari recipes for autumn entertaining
Grilled squid with rouille and chilli
Sean Moran’s calamari fried in its ink with chilli aïoli
Jicama and green mango salad with grilled calamari
Grilled calamari with herbs and crisp shallots

Calamari cooked in olive oil with spiced beetroot salad
Frank Camorra’s calamari cooked in olive oil with spiced beetroot salad
A short history of brodetto, and a recipe too
Chilli squid-ink spaghetti
Tony Tan’s three-cup calamari
Spiced squid with sweet and sour mango sauce

Squid, chorizo, spelt, blood orange and black garlic
Squid, chorizo, spelt, blood orange and black garlic
Squid with fennel and artichokes
David Thompson’s deep-fried squid with garlic and peppercorns
Grilled squid (Pla meuk yang)
Raes on Wategos’s calamari and zucchini skewers with ‘nduja vinaigrette
Salad of grilled baby calamari, radicchio and potatoes
Alpha’s calamari with fava, barley rusks, capers and rocket
Morcilla-stuffed squid with lentils and saffron alioli
Phil Wood’s kipfler potato and calamari Greek salad
Braised beans with chorizo and calamari
Fried squid and potato with chilli and garlic
Arroz negro (Squid with rice cooked in squid ink)
Tagliolini al nero di seppia con calamari (Squid-ink tagliolini with calamari)
Squid with roast tomato dressing, Sicilian olives and garlic crumbs
Lau’s Family Kitchen’s calamari with shrimp sauce
Taglierini with squid, garlic and chilli
Bar Saracen’s hummus bi calamari