Indonesian Sweet Squid

 

INGREDIENTS

500 gr squid, cleaned, slice into 2 cm length

Marinade

2 gloves garlic, finely chopped

2 cm fresh ginger, peeled and finely chopped

1 large red chilli, finely sliced or 3 dried kept whole 

2 pc kaffir lime leaves, finely sliced

3 tbs Indonesian sweet soya sauce / Kecap Manis

1/4 tsp salt

1 tbs Honey

1 tsp oyster sauce

1/4 tsp squid sauce

pepper (to taste)

30 ml vegetable oil

juice of 1/2 lime or lemon

1 red onion cut into wedges

To serve

5 pc shallots, finely sliced (optional)

Crushed nuts I used cashews 

Rice

Vegetables

Use whatever you have there is no set recipe here you don’t need to add vegetables if you don’t want them. I used broccoli and asparagus cut into small bit size pieces. When cooking the rice add your steaming basket to the top for the last 5 minutes of cooking time to steam the vegetables.

Let’s get Cooking 

Prepare squid by cleaning and then slicing open and scoring the inside flesh with a sharp knife in a crisscross design. Grind the ingredients for the marinade in a mortar. Rub the squid with marinating paste, put aside for 30 minutes. Heat 50 ml oil in a frying pan, cook onion for 2 minutes stirring, add the squid using a slotted spoon, fry the squid until opaque. Set squid aside to drain. Add the remaining marinade stirring all the time until fragrant. Turn off the heat, add the lime juice. Add the squid back into pan. Stir in the steamed vegetables and mix, add the shallots and nuts.

Serve hot with rice.