Salt & Sansho Pepper Squid

Known in the UK as salt and pepper squid, in Peru as chicharrón de calamar and as lula frita in Brazil, my version of this popular dish uses sansho pepper – one of my favourite Japanese ingredients. If you’ve not heard of sansho pepper before, it is the pulverised peppercorns of the Japanese prickly ash tree. This Nikkei take on this universally popular squid dish should be crispy, with a feather-like texture and when paired with this intensely aromatic Japanese condiment I th