Wednesday, December 10, 2008

CTNF: Stir fried salted egg squid


As good as it looks...?

This recipe is fresh from the wok!

I took leave today to enquire about the new ACCA course in INTI. There IS a possibility I might go back to studying..... part time. We'll see how it goes (ie. paper exemptions, cost and timing). Another thing that bugged me today is finding out that a dear lecturer who was my Head of Program is quitting the college and relocating to India due to some family problems. I am pretty saddened by the news as 1) He is a very nice and friendly person and has been very helpful throughout my 4 yrs duration in college, and 2) Every single person I know is quitting the college, there's no more reason to go back!

Cut the long story short, I took leave and I cooked dinner.

Anyway, I digressed.

Ingredients
4 Salted eggs (yolk only)
150 gms Squid (calamari)
2 Tablespoons Sliced Onion
2 Garlic cloves
1 Tablespoon Shrimp Oil
2 Tablespoons Oil
1/4 Teaspoon Black Pepper
2 Tablespoons Fish Sauce
1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
Curry Leaves
Chilli Padi

Preparation
1. Clean and chop the squid into bite sized pieces.
2. Heat some water until boiling and briefly blanch the squid. Remove and drain.
3. Put oil into a frying pan, over a medium heat. When the oil is hot, take just the yolk of the salty eggs and fry until half cooked, break up the egg yolkd as you cook them, just like scrambled eggs.
4. Add the squid to the pan and fry it for a few seconds more until cooked. Remove from the pan and place on a serving dish, keep the pan ready to reuse to make the sauce.
5. Chop the garlic and put into the pan, fry for a few seconds to release the smell.
6. Add the fish sauce, sugar, shrimp oil, sliced onion, black pepper, curry leaves and chilli padi and fried for 1 minute.
7. Pour this sauce over the calamari and egg mix before serving.


Most definitely!

I had initially wanted to cook something similar to the salted egg squid I had in King Crab (partially due to the last post which contains salted egg squid at Ah Lim Seafood as well). I couldn't find any recipes on that and decided to settle on this recipe from Apron's Thai Food. It didn't quite disappoint and I must say it was quite yummy hehehe.

Preparation and cooking is easy peasy too. If I can cook, so can you!

7 comments:

=chuan guan= said...

i love squid..must be superrrrrrrrr yuummmmmyyyyyyyy

KY said...

*SLURPS* !!!

Chang said...

aHHHH
hard to find shrimp oil and fish sauce !!!
and and ... AHHHHHHHH
4 salted eggs yolk...salted here is pretty pricy.... =(

Anonymous said...

Picture sure is making me drool... (Might wanna clean the sides of the plate for better presentation and photo) :-p

Shrimp oil? I have never used that ever. Does it come in a bottle or what? Where did ya find this in Malaysia? Or you actually have to stir fry prawn shells for the oil? I know you need to do this when you're preparing prawn mee.

I think you could have made something similar to King's Crab dish if you'd just mix the ingredients into a batter of egg + all purpose flour + corn starch. Try this the next time you feel like making salted egg squid again. maybe I can do this when I am back in Malaysia. :-)

YilingL said...

=chuan guan=,
Me too! It WAS yummy! :p

KY,
*BURPS*

Chang,
Come back Msia and export back to US loh.

Calvin,
I'm not pro like you.

eiling lim said...

4 Salted eggs?!! You must be crazy! Sure cholesterol went up like hell.

YilingL said...

eiling,
It was sinfully GOOD! of course I didn't use 4 salted egg yolks, I used 3 only :pppp u missed out my wonderful cooking!

 
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