Recipe: Perfect Spicy Squid/Calamari

Spicy Squid/Calamari.

You can cook Spicy Squid/Calamari using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Spicy Squid/Calamari

1. It's 300 gr of squid, cleaned.
2. You need of Lemon/lime juice.
3. You need 8 of kaffir lime leaves.
4. It's 1 cm of (0.5 in) galangal.
5. You need 2 of tomatoes, cut into 4 or 6.
6. You need of Salt.
7. It's of Sugar.
8. Prepare of Pepper.
9. You need 4 of shallots, thinly sliced.
10. Prepare 4 of garlic cloves, thinly sliced.
11. You need 2 cm of (1 in) ginger, cut into matchstick.
12. You need 1 of red jalapeno, sliced.
13. Prepare 1 of green jalapeno, sliced.
14. It's 10 of or more dried chilies, sliced.
15. You need 1 of lemon grass, white part only, thinly sliced.

Spicy Squid/Calamari step by step

1. Coat the squid with lemon juice. Leave it for 10-15 minutes then rinse. Cut as you like..
2. Heat a little oil in a pan. Saute all the sliced ingredients (from shallots to lemon grass) until fragrance..
3. Add in kaffir lime leaves, galangal and tomatoes. Stir until the tomatoes wilted..
4. Turn the heat up on high then add in the squid..
5. Add salt, a little bit sigar and pepper. Stir it quickly..
6. Add a little bit water if needed. Give a stir real quick and have a taste. Add more seasoning if needed. Serve over the warm rice..
7. Squid cooked fast, so don't cook them too long, otherwise they'd become very chewy..