2020-08-13 / test@t

Chinese Squid Cones

A popular dish in Chinese eateries. By the way, this is how squid is cooked in the Far East, my colleagues who come from there confirm this. Squid in Chinese can be served as an independent dish, or as a side dish for rice. The dish turns out to be spicy, tasty, juicy and effective in appearance!

Ingredients

squid fillet 500 g
bell pepper 1 pc.
carrots 1 pc.
small onions 2 pcs.
garlic (cloves) 3 pcs.
sesame oil 1 tablespoon
vegetable oil for frying 1 tbsp.
green onions (feathers) 2 pcs.
dry chili 1 pinch (s)
sherry 40 ml
soy sauce 3 tbsp
sugar 1 tbsp
starch 1 tbsp.
rice vinegar 1 tablespoon

STEP-BY-STEP COOKING RECIPE

Step 1

Clean the squid by removing the skin and chitinous plates, rinse well. Slice the squid on one side and spread the inside out on a cutting board. Make deep oblique cuts in the form of a mesh, without cutting through the squid all the way.

Step 2

We cut the prepared squid into rectangles, the size is about 2x4 cm.

Step 3

Dip the prepared pieces of squid in boiling water for 30 seconds, remove and immediately cool in cold water, after which the squid plates will curl up into tubes with incisions outward and become like cones.

Step 4

Preparing vegetables. Cut the onions into quarters, the peppers into squares, the garlic and carrots into thin slices.

Step 5

Making the sauce. In a bowl, mix the soy sauce, rice vinegar, and sherry (ideally, it is better to use Shaoxing culinary wine, but if it is not there, then you can replace it with sherry or just dessert wine). Then add sugar and starch, mix until smooth.

Step 6

Fry vegetables, a wok pan is best for this. Pour in a mixture of vegetable and sesame oils, heat, put all the vegetables at once and fry, stirring occasionally, for 5-7 minutes. Season with dry chili to taste, you can also use fresh chili, then you will need to pre-cut it into thin strips. But I'm too hot with fresh.

Step 7

Add our squid cones to the vegetables, fry for 2-3 minutes.

Step 8

Fill our squid and vegetables with the prepared dressing, mix quickly, turn off the heat and let the squid infuse for 3-5 minutes. The sauce should thicken quickly.

Step 9