Recipe: Spiced Calamari with Fennel & Smashed Avocado

Ingredients

• 1 small garlic clove
• 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• Salt flakes
• 3-4 ripe avocados, peeled and roughly chopped
• Freshly ground black pepper
• 3 limes — 2 juiced, 1 cut in wedges to serve
• ¼ bunch coriander, roughly chopped, plus extra leaves to garnish
• 1 bulb fennel
• 1 lemon
• Extra virgin olive oil
• 1 green chilli, finely sliced
• Oil for frying (I use olive oil)
• 600g small or medium-sized calamari, cleaned, scored and cut into strips
• 100g plain flour
• 20g ground cumin
• 25g smoked paprika
• 25g ground coriander
• 35g ras el hanout
• 30g onion powder
• 20g garlic powder
• 2 tbsp salt flakes