Salt and Pepper Squid or Calamari With Cucumber Salad
photo by Chef floWer
- Ready In:
- 26mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
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Squid
- 500 g squid, cleaned hoods only
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cracked black pepper
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon lemon pepper seasoning
- 1 tablespoon peanut oil
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Salad
- 1 lebanese cucumber, sliced thinly (about 130 grams)
- 2 green onions, sliced thinly (also known as spring onions)
- 250 g cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1⁄3 cup roasted peanuts, chopped coarsely
- 1⁄2 cup fresh mint leaves, loosely packed
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon peanut oil
directions
- Cut squid hoods along one side and open out. Using a small sharp knife, score inside of hoods in a diagonal pattern, without cutting all the way through. This will allow the squid to curl during cooking. Cut each squid hood into eight pieces.
- Sprinkle squid with combined pepper, salt and lemon pepper seasoning.
- Heat oil in wok or large frying pan, stir-fry squid in batches until curled and just cooked through. Serve squid with cucumber salad.
- Cucumber Salad: Combine cucumber, onion, tomato, nuts and mint in medium bowl. Add combined vinegar and oil, toss to combine.
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Reviews
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The salad is to die for, very very tasty, we made it yesterday and today I feel like having the same thing. Our calamari, unfortunately, came out tough, so be careful when you're frying them as they become overdone soon. In the end we toasted a few pieces of bread because we found that the acidic taste of the salad was a bit difficult to take on its own (or with the tough calamari) and there was something missing. We will surely try this recipe again and I hope to master the skill of frying calamari not too much! Thanks a lot for posting, we love trying out new things.
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Chef floWer, these were just perfect. My 11 year old son LOVES calamari (as do I) but not fond of the breaded deep fried style. These really hit the spot, texture and seasoning wise (we didn't make the salad but dipped the calamari in Tzatziki sauce). {Made and reviewed for NZ/AUS recipe swap #31, Aug. 2009}
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Great dish. We added some finely sliced bird's eye chillies (we like them) to the oil before cooking the squid. Yummo. I put the seasonings (including some of cornflour) and the squid in a plastic bag, and shook the dickens of out of it all. It's a fast and easy way to add the coating. Also, didn't have peanuts for the salad, but that didn't matter. Made and reviewed for Zaar World Tour.
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Chef floWer
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