Steamed Squid With Ginger Onion

Ingredients

• Fresh squid: 500g, you can use squid, squid rice, squid leaves are all delicious.
• Ginger: 1 branch about 100g.
• Green onions: 100g.
• Red horn chili: 6 fruits.
• Raw vegetables served with ginger steamed squid: 1 cucumber, 1 fig (optional), herbs, coriander, lettuce.
• Garlic: 1 bulb.
• Fresh lemon: 1 fruit.
• Spices: Seasoning seeds, fish sauce, sugar, white wine.

Making

Squid: Preliminarily processed, washed with water mixed with white wine and crushed ginger to make the squid less fishy, ​​when steamed, it will be more delicious. Cut the squid into 3cm long circles, lightly slit on the intimate. If the squid is small, leave it whole. Marinate squid with 1 teaspoon of seasoning, 1 teaspoon of fish sauce, ½ teaspoon of MSG for 20 minutes for the squid to infuse the spices.

Ginger: Peel, wash, divide into 3 parts, 2/3 cut only, 1/3 leave whole. Green onions: Picked, washed, dried, cut into 5cm long pieces. Horny chili: 3 stalks removed, washed, halved, seeded, sliced, 3 left whole. Garlic: Peel, wash and dry. Fresh Lemon: Get the juice.

Raw vegetables served with steamed squid, onions, and ginger: Picked and washed, drained, grated cucumber with 2 ends, sliced ​​3cm long, peeled figs, thinly sliced ​​soaked in water with a little lemon mixed to make the figs white and then presented. disc to be attractive.

When the squid has absorbed the spices, mix the squid with ginger – sliced ​​chili, sliced ​​onions, put in a steamer about 10 minutes from the water until the squid is just cooked, you should not steam the squid for too long or it will lose the ink. let’s go crispy. Arrange the steamed squid with ginger onion on a plate so that it is beautiful.

Making fish sauce is an important step of how to make steamed squid with ginger onion: You need to note, for steamed squid, only ginger lemon garlic fish sauce is the most suitable, how to make fish sauce is as follows: You put 3 horned chili, the rest of ginger, garlic, 2 tablespoons of sugar into the mortar and pound it very fine, you can cut the chili, ginger into slices, it will be easier to pound. Then put the mixture in a bowl, add 5 tablespoons of fish sauce, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, stir well and you have a bowl of delicious ginger fish sauce, you can increase or decrease the amount of sugar, chili, fish sauce, … according to the taste of the whole family.

Using steamed squid with ginger onion dipped in fish sauce and served with raw vegetables will be extremely delicious and attractive, the raw vegetables served with ginger fish sauce will make the steamed squid much richer.