Stir-fry Squid

Stir-fry squid a quick and easy seafood dish featuring the flavors of squid, soy sauce, pepper, garlic, chili flakes and ginger. If you only have 3 minutes extra time to cook, this seafood recipe is for you! This stir fry squid recipe is super tasty and very easy to make. Best partnered with some hot steaming rice.

Stir-fry Squid Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 pieces squid
• 1 bell pepper (chopped)
• 1 thumb ginger (sliced)
• 1 onion (sliced)
• 4 cloves of garlic (minced)
• Chili flakes to taste
• 3 tablespoons of soy sauce
• Sugar to taste
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• Pepper to taste
• Salt to taste
• 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
• A bunch of spring onions (cut into short sticks)

Directions:

1. Wash and prepare the squids. Remove the innards and the quill. Pull gently to remove the black skin. Separate the squid heads.
2. Cut the squid open and then slice the fin. Set the fin aside.
3. Create a pattern of criss cross slits to the body of the squid. Do not cut through. Then, slice them into long pieces. Set aside. Do the same process to the squid’s fins.
4. For the squid head, simply cut them into pieces including the tentacles.
5. For the sauce, add the soy sauce, sugar, apple cider vinegar and cornstarch. Stir and mix well. Set aside.
6. Pour some water in a pot and bring to a boil. Blanch the squids for a whole minute. Then, remove them from the pot and set aside.
7. Heat some oil in a pan, saute the onions, ginger, garlic, bell peppers, chili flakes and spring onions. Saute for a few minutes. Then, add the blanched squid. Pour the sauce and season with pepper and salt. Stir fry for 1 minute. Turn the heat off.
8. Transfer the stir fry squid to a serving plate. Serve this together with a big bowl of hot steaming rice. Yum!

Stir-fry Squid

The main meat which will be used for this recipe is the squid. Let’s have a quick fun facts about the squid to make us appreciate them more.

There are many seafoods out there and the squid an underrated one. When we say seafoods, we always thought of shrimps, crabs and clams. We usually forget about the squids, which are very yummy and chewy when cooked. And most especially, squids are very easy to cook.

Squid is a type of seafood which were believed to have existed from more than a million years back. Some sea monsters and sea legends were attributed to the form of the squid. Squids are most famous due to their defense mechanism, which is spraying a black ink upon its enemy to have a time to escape away.

It’s also my nephew’s first time seeing a large squid so I showed him its parts. sThe whole large portion of the squid is its body. The triangle part at the end are its fins. If you look at the head closely, you can see its two eyes. We usually pop them before cooking. The black color on the body is actually a black skin, and it can be removed. When you chop the head off, you can see the innards are all black due to the squid ink. The ink is edible but a dish will be more appetizing if the squids are well cleaned.

If you wanna know how to make some stir fry squid, read and follow the simple steps below. Yum!

How to Cook Stir-fry Squid

Making some stir fried squid is super easy. But before the actual cooking, let us first prepare the squid to make this dish extra special and more appetizing.

For this recipe, I recommend the largest squids you can get. You can use the frozen ones but the fresh ones from the wet market are better. Prepare the squid and clean it well. Pulling the black skin might take some practice. Instead of simply slicing the squid into small pieces, let us design them by making criss cross cuts. Make sure not to push the knife too hard. This design will also let the seasonings and the sauce stick to the squids very well.

The sauce is made by simply combining the classic seasonings including oy sauce, sugar, apple cider vinegar and cornstarch. You can also use the regular vinegar if apple cider vinegar is not available.

Before we stir fry the squids, let’s blanch it first. By blanching, we rapidly cook the squid in boiling water in not more than 1 minute. It is like pre-cooking the squid before stir frying.

The last part of this recipe is stir frying the aromatics, bell peppers and the squid, then adding the sauce. You can add other veggies you like. This step would only take 1 minute since the squids are already blanched. Be sure not to cook them for too long to prevent the squid from being too chewy.

I love having this stir fry squid as an appetizer, side dish, or as my ulam. Yum!

Ginisang Pusit Recipe Tagalog

Ingredients:

• 2 pirasong pusit
• 1 bell pepper (hiniwa)
• 1 luya (hiniwa)
• 1 sibuyas (hiniwa)
• 4 butil ng bawang (hiniwa nang maliliit na piraso)
• Chili flakes
• 3 kutsara ng toyo
• asukal
• 1 kutsara ng cornstarch
• Paminta
• asin
• 1 kutsara ng apple cider vinegar
• Bugkos ng spring onions (hiniwa ng maiikling sticks)

Paano lutuin:

1. Hugasan at ihanda ang mga pusit. Alisin ang lamang loob nito. Dahan dahang alisin ang itim na balat. Ihiwalay ang ulo ng pusit.
2. Hiwain ang pusit para mabuksan ito. Hiwain rin ang palikpik ng pusit. Isantabi ang palikpik.
3. Hiwaan nang mababaw na pa-criss cross na pattern ang katawan ng pusit. Hiwain ang ito sa mahahabang piraso. Gawin din ito sa palikpik ng pusit. Isantabi pagkatapos.
4. Para sa ulo at galamay ng pusit, hiwain ito sa maliliit na piraso.
5. Para naman sa sauce, kumuha ng toyo, asukal, apple cider vinegar at cornstarch. Haluin ito ng mabuti.
6. Magpakulo ng tubig sa isang kaldero. I-blanch ang mga pusit ng 1 minuto. Alisin din agad ang mga ito sa kumukulong tubig at isantabi.
7. Magpainit ng mantika sa kawali at igisa ang bawang, sibuyas, luya, bell peppers, chili flakes at spring onions. Sunod na ilagay ang pusit at ang sauce. Timpalhan ng asin at paminta. Istir fry ng 1 minuto bago patayin na ang apoy.
8. Ilipat ang stir fry squid sa serving plate. Ihanda ito kasama ng mainit na kanin. Yum!