Chilli Squid

Name: Chilli Squid
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 3 fresh red chillies, seeded and roughly chopped; 5 ml/1 tsp cornflour/cornstarch; ½ leek, thinly sliced in rounds; 30 ml/2 tbsp groundnut/peanut oil; 15 ml/1 tbsp yellow bean sauce; 5 ml/1 tsp caster/superfine sugar; 200 g/7 oz squid

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

China

By Terry Tan

Published 2020

About

This member of the vast cephalopod family is an important seafood and is eaten widely in most of coastal China. Squid can range in size from 2.5cm/1in long to giants of enormous size, but the best size for eating are those about 7.5cm/3in long, which are available frozen in many Chinese and South-east Asian stores. Squid cooks in moments and is delicious stir-fried in a chilli, garlic and yellow bean sauce.