Skip to content
Main course · Mexican

Calamares a la Veracruzana (Squid in Tomato-Olive Sauce)

30 min Serves 4 ~494 kcal/serving ~£10.00 (£2.50/serving) Dairy-freeGluten-freePescatarian

Dietary and allergen labels, nutrition and cost are worked out automatically from each recipe’s ingredients and are a guide only. Check the labels on what you buy yourself — especially for allergies or coeliac disease. More about recipe labels.

Opens Equal House and puts it on the night you choose. No app yet? It’s free, and the recipe comes with you when you install it.

Ingredients

  • 500 g cleaned squid rings
  • 400 g plum tomatoes
  • 40 g green olives, pitted
  • 1 tbsp capers
  • 1 onion
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 300 g long grain rice

Nutrition (per serving)

Calories
494 kcal
Protein
26.7 g
Carbohydrate
68.9 g
of which sugars
5.4 g
Fat
11.1 g
of which saturates
2 g
Fibre
3 g
Salt
0.73 g

Estimated from typical values for each ingredient — a guide, not a substitute for the label on what you actually buy.

Method

  1. 1

    Cook the long grain rice following the pack instructions.

  2. 2

    Fry the onion and garlic cloves in the olive oil for 5 minutes until soft.

  3. 3

    Add the plum tomatoes, green olives and capers, then simmer for 10 minutes until thickened.

  4. 4

    Add the squid rings and cook for 3-4 minutes until just cooked through and tender.

  5. 5

    Serve the squid and sauce with the rice.

Equal House

Plan your meals — and share the cooking

Equal House builds your shopping list by aisle, times the cooking for dinner, and shares it out fairly. Free to start.

Free to start on your iPhone Free to start on your Android phone Free to start · No ads · Your family's data stays yours.