Recipe: Tasty Salt and Pepper Squid

Salt and Pepper Squid.

You can cook Salt and Pepper Squid using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Salt and Pepper Squid

1. It's 350 g of raw squid, tentacles and tubes.
2. Prepare pinch of salt and pepper for marinating.
3. Prepare to taste of salt.
4. You need 2 teaspoon of coarsely ground white pepper.
5. It's 1/4 cup of starch (I use sweet potato starch, you can use cornstarch).
6. Prepare 1/2 tablespoon of chili pepper powder (optional for a mild version).
7. It's 2 of fresh peppers (one red, one green).
8. It's 3 cloves of garlic, finely minced.
9. You need 1/2 of middle size egg.
10. It's 2 of green onions, finely chopped.
11. You need 1 tablespoon of cooking oil.
12. It's of Oil for deep-frying.
13. It's 1 of small bunch of Coriander.

Salt and Pepper Squid instructions

1. Remove the dark skin firstly..
2. Trim the squid and then slice the tubes into 1/2 inch square pieces. Then rinse well and drain..
3. Chop the fresh peppers into small circles. Marinate with salt and pepper for around 10 minutes..
4. Add starch and egg and then mix well. Heat up enough oil in a deep pot until 170 degree C..
5. You can test the oil temperature by adding one piece each time (Note 1). The squid should be floating quite quickly after touching the oil. Deep-fry all the squid by small batches..
6. Place 1 tablespoon of cooking oil again and then fry garlic, fresh pepper and green onion until aroma. Then return squid and sprinkle salt and pepper. Turn off the fire and mix everything well..