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Squid Ink Sauce Spaghetti or Pasta Nera/Negro

Squid ink pasta sauce is popular Italian cuisine. The squid ink pasta is called Pasta Nera or Pasta al nero di seppia in Italian, Negro Pasta or Negre Pasta in Spanish. It’s have a very fresh sea aromas with a nice savoury hint. Just make sure u use a very fresh squid for this recipe. You can harvest squid ink by gently pulling the squid head then collect the ink sack from the squid. Squezze the black ink from the sack and it’s ready to use. Squid ink has been popular to coloring food, include famous black homemade squid ink infused pasta or arroz negro, squid ink risotto.

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Squid Ink Sauce Spaghetti or Pasta Nera/Negro

The basic recipe for squid ink sauce is onion, garlic, tomato and squid ink. You dan use sun dried tomato to for more deep flavour.For the quid ink, you can use freshly squezzed squid ink or the jarred quid ink for this recipe. My fried told me that squid ink is needed to sauteed or evaporated first while cooking to release the “sea” aromas. That’s why i pour the squid ink before adding the sun dried tomatoes. Season with a good italian herbs and some chilli flakes to make some kick to the dish. I served the pasta with BLACKENED SALMON FILLET

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Blackened Salmon Fillet with Squid Ink Sauce Pasta

Squid Ink Sauce Spaghetti or Pasta Negro Recipe:

Ingredient:

125 grspaghtti pasta, cook with package instruction
2 tbsp olive oil or truffle oil for drizzling
spinach salad for garnishing
diced yellow, red plum tomato and bird eye chillies for garnishing

Sun Dried Tomato and Roasted Pepper Sauce Recipe:

1 tbsp squid ink (from 4-5 medium size squid)
50 gr HOMEMADE SUN DRIED TOMATOES, soaked with boiling water for 10 minutes, drained and finely chopped, reserve the liqid
*2 fresh tomato if you don’t have sun dried tomato*
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1/2 onion, finely chopped
2 tbsp grated parmesan cheese
a pinch of oregano
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
1 tbsp olive oil

Instruction:

How to Make Squid Ink Sauce:

Heat up the olive oil in a sauce pan, saute the onion and garlic until fragrance and slightly browned
Add the squid ink and let it evaporate a lil bit
Add the sun dried tomato and saute another minute
Pour the liquid from soaking sun dried tomato, season with salt, pepper, cheese and oregano, bring to boil
Simmer and reduce the sauce until thicken
Mix and toss the pasta to the sauce
Serve with BLACKENED SALMON FILLET