"Calamari Casserole" (طاجن كالماري)

Dear seafood lovers, today we'll have a very delicious Calamari recipe.
It's baked in oven, to spare the frying smell and also it's a kind of change, than eating it fried as an appetizer !

Ingredients needed:

5 whole calamaris, cut into rings.
1 sliced tomato.
1 sliced onion.
Some chopped parsley.
1 tsp minced garlic.
2 tsp tomato paste.
Salt, Pepper.
Flour.
1 lemon.
1 tbsp oil.


Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. Clean calamari from inside and outside by rubbing it well with flour then rinse, then rub it with salt then rinse again.
3. Inside the calamari there is like a thin plastic body, you have to get it out.
4. Cut into rings.
5. Season with salt, pepper, and 1 tsp minced garlic for 1 hour.
6. Put the calamari rings in a baking dish then squeeze over 1 lemon.
7. Sprinkle some chopped parsley on the top.
8. Add tomato and onion slices on the surface.
9. In a sauce pan pour 1 tbsp oil, add 2 tsp tomato paste, make thinner by adding 1/2 cup water (or more) and stir.
10. Add salt and pepper then stir again.
11. Pour sauce over the whole dish.
12. Cover the dish with foil and put in oven for 45 minutes or until fully cooked.
13. Check by tasting a calamari ring.

Enjoy your meal.