Name: Stir-Fried Squid with Peppers and Mushrooms (炒魷魚)
Yield: this would serve 2 or 3 people as a main course.
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon scallion-ginger juice; 1 tablespoon dry sherry; 8 small dried black Chinese mushrooms (presoaked); 2 small green peppers; 1½ pounds fresh squid; 2 quarter -sized slices peeled ginger; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 cups oil; 1 tablespoon cornstarch

Preparation info

this would serve
2 or 3
people as a main course.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Key to Chinese Cooking

By Irene Kuo

Published 1977

About

The tender pieces of white squid are beautifully embellished with the crisp green peppers and fluffy black mushrooms. Frilling makes the vegetables resemble flower petals. A beautiful dish with a delicate taste,

Ingredients

1½ pounds fresh squid
2 small green peppers
8 small dried black Chinese mushrooms

Method

Preparations

1) Remove the head and tentacles; save for another use. 2) Peel off the purple membrane and slit each squid; 3) remove the cartilage. Rinse well and blot dry. 4) Score the surface with small crisscross patterns; then cut into 2-inch squares. Put these in a mixing bowl and toss with 1 tabl