Chilli Salt Squid

Name: Chilli Salt Squid
Ingredients: ⅓ cup plain flour; 500 g whole squid; 1 lemon, cut into 6 wedges; 6 sprigs coriander; 1 tablespoon ground white pepper; 2 tablespoons sea salt; 4 cups vegetable oil; 2 tablespoons chilli powder

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simply Asian

By Neil Perry

Published 2000

About

This dish should be hot and salty. Cold beers and chilli salt squid are a marriage made in heaven. Cuttlefish also work wonderfully well in this recipe and both make excellent cocktail food.

Ingredients

500 g whole squid
⅓ cup plain flour
2 tablespoons

Snack
Starter
Fish course
Pescatarian
Spicy

Method

On a chopping board, and taking one squid at a time, pull out the tentacles. Pull off the side flaps and cut the squid down the centre so that it will open flat. With a small knife, cut out the gut and ink sac and discard. Scrape the skin off the body and flaps (it will peel off easily) and cut off and discard the hard beak. Wash the squid thoroughly and cut into strips about 1 cm wide.