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Preparation
30 minutes
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Cooking
30 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Instead of the familiar grilled dishes, fried one-night squid with fish sauce and sautéed with rich vegetables will be a new and attractive dish for you to showcase your cooking skills. Let’s cook this delicious fried dish right away!
Ingredients for Fried One-Night Squid with Fish Sauce Serves 4 people
One-night squid 1 piece Onion 1 bulb Green onion 5 stalks Tomato 1 piece Cucumber 1 piece Chili pepper 2 pieces Garlic 3 bulbs Fish sauce 1 tablespoon Cooking oil 10 tablespoons Common seasoning a little (seasoning powder/ pepper/ sugar)
How to Choose Quality One-Night Squid
To choose quality one-night squid, you should pay attention to the following characteristics:
- Color: Squid should have a natural pink color, no fishy smell, and should not be sticky when touching the squid.
- Body: Good squid should have a straight body and thick flesh, feel dry when picked up, and the body and head should be attached. When cooked, the aroma of dried squid is fragrant, the squid meat expands along the fibers, and it has a rich sweet taste. Especially, real squid will not release water when making the dish.
Additionally, you can also prepare one-night squid at home with a recipe from TasteVN:
How to prepare fried squid with fish sauce
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Prepare the squid
Cut off the head of the squid, then gently score the body in a checkerboard pattern. Next, cut the squid in half and then into bite-sized pieces.
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Prepare other ingredients
Green onions cut the roots, wash clean, and then cut into pieces about the length of a finger.
Onions peeled, cut into wedges. Chili peppers cut the stems, slice to a bite size. Garlic peeled and minced.
Tomatoes remove the stems, cut into thin slices. Cucumbers cut off both ends, slice thinly.
How to cut onions without making your eyes tear- To avoid the enzyme cells from breaking and causing eye irritation, instead of pressing hard each time you cut, use a sharp knife to cut decisively.
- The flesh of the onion has a tubular shape, so if you cut the onion horizontally, the onion juice will not splash into your eyes.
- Chilling the onion in the freezer for 10-15 minutes before cutting will reduce the amount of acid enzyme released into the air without affecting the flavor of the onion.
See details: Tips to avoid tearing when cutting onions
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Fried Squid
You marinate the squid with 1/2 tablespoon of seasoning, 1/2 teaspoon of pepper for 15 minutes.
Next, you add 8 tablespoons of cooking oil to the pan, when the oil is hot, add the squid and fry over medium heat. To ensure the squid is golden all over, be sure to stir the squid evenly.
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Sauté Vegetables and Squid
You add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil to the pan, when the oil is hot, add minced garlic and sauté until fragrant. When the garlic turns golden, add the white part of the green onions and onions and stir well.
After 2 minutes, you add the green onion stems and bell peppers to sauté together. Stir the ingredients evenly, then add the squid, season with 1 tablespoon of fish sauce, 1 tablespoon of sugar, and sauté for another 3 minutes.
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Final Product
You arrange cucumber and tomato on a plate, placing the stir-fried squid in the center. To enhance the flavor, you can dip it in soy sauce with a few slices of chopped chili and enjoy it with hot rice, which is also very fitting.
The sun-dried squid is fried crispy but still retains its softness, chewiness, and rich flavor. The refreshing vegetables are stir-fried fragrant, perfectly combined with the delicious sun-dried squid.
Easy to make and bringing an irresistible delicious flavor, the fried sun-dried squid with fish sauce is sure to delight your whole family!
*Refer to images and recipes from the YouTube channel SEAVY Specialties of Khanh Hoa.
