Salt and pepper squid recipe


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  • Cuisine: Chinese

Ying Tam, chef of Sydney's Ying's Seafood Restaurant shares his signature salt and pepper squid recipe with Food Safari's Maeve O'Meara.

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Ingredients

500g fresh calamari
2 tbsp self raising flour
1 tbsp oil
Cornflour
Vegetable oil, for deep frying
4 green shallots, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 red chilli, chopped
2 tsp Shaoxing wine
Five Spice mix
1 tbsp ground ginger
1 tbsp celery powder
1 tbsp chicken stock powder
1 tbsp salt
1 tsp five spice powder

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Preparation

Clean calamari by pulling the tentacles from the body. Wash out the tube and remove the clear 'backbone'. Remove the skin, if desired. Cut tentacles from the head and discard heads. Cut tubes into triangles, this helps them to curl during cooking.

In a bowl, mix self raising flour, oil and a little water to make a paste. Place calamari pieces and tentacles into the bowl and coat well. Then sprinkle each piece with enough cornflour until the pieces are dry.

Combine all ingredients for five spice mix and set aside.

Heat enough vegetable oil for deep frying in a wok. Add calamari, in batches and cook until golden and crisp. Remove with a wire basket or slotted spoon. Repeat with remaining calamari. Drain off oil.

Add shallots, garlic and chilli to wok. Cook for 30 seconds until aromatic. Return squid to wok and add 2 to 3 tsp of the five spice mix. Toss well to combine. Add Shaoxing wine, toss and serve immediately.

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14 Jan 2012 05:52 AEST
Joan
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Pepper?
In response to the pepper content, true salt and pepper squid uses sichuan peppercorns ( which are roasted and ground). The truest (and I believe the most delicious) salt and pepper squid is tossed in a combo of cornflour, salt, roasted and ground Sichuan peppercorns, then deep fried. It should have a lovely crisp texture delivered by the cornflour and the unique peppery flavour of the Sichuan peppercorns. Simple yet amazing. If you're in Adelaide try a great version at City Zen.
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16 Jul 2011 05:02 AEST
Scol
Baulkham Hills
Celery Powder?
I would love to try the recipe, but what is celery powder and where in Sydney 'burbs can I get it? I can get celery seeds, do I just grind them up? or is celery powder different? or do I use celery salt from Master Foods etc?
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20 Jun 2011 04:21 AEST
Luke Peters
Melbourne
Pepper
Pepper man...one of the components of 5-spice powder IS pepper. Having said that, the pepper in "salt and pepper" dishes usually takes the form of chilli. So in a way, there are two kinds of pepper in this dish.
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11 Jun 2011 09:37 AEST
Benjamin Selby
Cumberland Park
Absolutely brilliant.
This recipe is utterly superb! Just tried it tonight, and it's the best S & P squid I've ever made. The really slick touches like the celery seed and chicken stock just push this to another level. The pre-batter using SR flour causes a really nice thick layer of cornflour to stick to the squid, making it super crunchy. Be sure to get real cornflour for this recipe: the lame stuff that you generally get from supermarkets is made from wheat and won't do the trick. :)
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01 May 2011 08:02 AEST
Mel
Central Coast
definately not my favourite
Mmm... much prefer salt and pepper squid, thought this looked great on the clip but tried it at home and not so simple. Think our calamari wasn't great but the recipe just didn't work out for us like Salt & Pepper has in the past.
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01 May 2011 04:28 AEST
Bronwyn
Umina Beach
fanastic
Wow just like we have at chinese. So good. I now need to find the moderate of heat of chilles. Adding mussel meat now to dish. Love it thanks
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26 Apr 2011 01:28 AEST
Fairy
Floreat
You need to try another version
Pete Evans version of this is the best I have tried.
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11 Apr 2011 07:31 AEST
pepper man
5072b5
where is the pepper?
the dish is call salt and pepper squid but where is the pepper?
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