Spicy Korean Stir-fried Squid – Skip the Calamari!

Spicy Korean Stir-fried Squid is a delicious way to eat squid. Check out this dish below 😉

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When I travel through Europe and Northern America, it is hard to find squid dishes in restaurants. If you do find one, it is usually served as deep-fried calamari. In Korea, we like to eat squid stir-fried in a spicy and tangy chili sauce with fresh vegetables. Today, I will show you how to make it at home.

It is a a perfect dish to learn how to clean and prep squid. Rather than explaining it here, I link to another video which details how to do it. If that seems to intimidating now, simply ask your butcher to clean it for you 😉

This dish is typically eaten with a bowl of hot rice as it is too spicy to eat alone! Please note that this recipe requires a teaspoon of Gochujang (Korean red chili paste). You can find the paste at a local Korean grocery store or from Amazon.

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Spicy Korean Stir-fried Squid

Fresh squid stir-fried in a spicy and tangy Gochujang sauce with fresh vegetables.

Course Medium

Servings 4 people

Ingredients

• Whole Squid - 2
• Bell pepper - 1/2 a whole
• Shiitake mushrooms - 2
• Carrot - 5 cm Measure to second wrinkle in pointer finger
• Onion - 1/2 a whole
• Spring onion - 1/2 a stalk
• Cheongyang chili peppers - 2 Or 1/2 Jalapeno pepper, no seeds
• Minced garlic - 2 teaspoons
• Sesame oil - 2 teaspoon

Marinade

• Soy sauce - 10 teaspoons
• Sugar - 4 teaspoons
• Gochugaru - 3 teaspoons
• Gochujang - 1 teaspoon
• Black pepper - 3 pinches

Instructions

Prep Veggies:

• Cut the onion into thin slices.
• Cut the carrot into rectangular strips and then cut those pieces in half.
• Slice the bell pepper and mushrooms into long strips.
• Slice spring onion and chili pepper at a slight angle.

Blanch Squid

• After cleaning the squid, bring a pot up to a roaring boil.
• Put the squid in boiling water for exactly 2 minutes. Pour out the squid through a drainer.
• Then cut the squid body (tube) in half and cut it into 1-2 cm thin strips. Cut and separate each tentacle from each other.

Korean Marinade

• Take out a mixing bowl. Add Gochugaru (3 teaspoons), Gochujang (1 teaspoon), Soy Sauce (10 teaspoons), Sugar (4 teaspoons), Black Pepper (3 pinches) together and mix throughly.

Stir-fry

• Place a large frying pan on high heat. Add oil to the pan. Then add minced garlic to the oil.
• Once the garlic starts to sizzle in the oil, add the marinade in. Once the marinade starts to boil, add-in the diced squid pieces.
• Then add the vegetables. Stir together and coat all of the vegetables with the marinade.
• Turn off heat once the vegetables are half-way cooked. Add in a touch of sesame oil and give one more stir. Plate and enjoy with a bowl of rice.

Notes

• Watch video below for more details

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