Topic: Squids
This is one of my family's favorite way to cook medium squids, my father likes it to be crispy-fried and now that I am married, I discovered that my hubby likes it to be cooked that way too. At first I found it difficult for me to fry it( I hate frying) since it bursted out, then few years ago I finally learned how to fry it safely, I simply covered the skillet! LOL :)
My family's tradition of frying it was stuffing the squids belly with pounded ginger and onions with a little amount of pepper, set it aside for few minutes, then fried it in hot oil over low-medium heat until crispy. We served it with our individual's favorite dipping sauce, I like to dip it into the mixture of soy sauce and lemon juice with chili.
That was how I made it also last night, the only addition was the oyster sauce and the capsicums. After I crispy-fried the whole squids, I sliced it into rings. Then I sauteed a few slices of onions in hot oil for few seconds, stirred in the slices of red and green capsicums together with the oyster sauce and few amount of black pepper powder. When the capsicums were almost tender, I put off the heat and added the slices of fried squids on it. There's no need for dipping sauce if it will be cooked this way since the oyster sauce were already blended well with the squids. That's it.