We had dinner @ Fish & Co last Saturday, the rubbery fried calamari rings that I sent back to the kitchen left me thinking about squid these few days. Of all the seafood, squid is my favourite, I could just have a plate of fried squid, nothing else, for a meal, I'll be so satisfied !Since I couldn't get it off my mind, I ended up with 6 squids this morning, they must be about 1kg. Frankly, I hate cleaning squids, which could be quite messy & leave my fingers stinking !
I make diagonal cuts on the squids so they will curl up after cooking.
Ingredients :
6 squids, cleaned & cut into pcs
4 Tbsp XO sauce
3 cloves garlic, sliced
5 sprigs spring onions, chopped
1 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp soya sauce
1 Tbsp Hua Tiao wine
Season the squids with 1/2 tsp salt, dash of pepper & 1 Tbsp corn flour, set aside for 10 mins. Bring a pot of water to boil, add squid quickly, blanch & drain. I found that seasoning the squid with cornflour leave the squid soft even after cooking, not rubbery & they won't be soggy after frying, I remembered watching my mum frying squids, there's always liquid coming out from the squids even after cooking. But after the seasoning & blanching, there's none !
Heat some oil in a wok, add XO sauce & garlic, cook till garlic is browned & aromatic, return squid to pan, add soya sauce, sugar & the Hua Tiao wine, stir to combine, add spring onions & turn off heat.
2 comments:
agree with u tt squid we get now don't taste good. i think it's all tt freezing n storage time. a friend frm the chemistry dept warned us to not be fooled by the ice cubes used by fishmongers bc the ice cubes usually contain a chemical (forgot its name but its not formalin). isn't tt terrible!
Yes Terri, I agree with you, those ppl are adding chemicals into our daily food nowadays, terrible.....
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