Easiest Way to Make Tasty Stir-fried Squid & Cucumber

Stir-fried Squid & Cucumber. The stir fried squid is very tender, with a slightly sweet and savory flavor and tangy fragrance of ginger and garlic. The dish is light, yet very satisfying. It goes great with a bowl of steamed rice.

Ojingeo is squid, and bokkeum refers to the dishes that are stir-fried. Koreans love squid, and this spicy dish is highly popular at home and restaurants. For this dish, the squid is cut into bite-sized pieces and stir-fried in a slightly sweet gochujang (Korean red chili pepper paste) based sauce along with some vegetables. You can have Stir-fried Squid & Cucumber using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Stir-fried Squid & Cucumber

1. You need 1 of squid (gutted, cleaned, cut into 5~7mm round slices).
2. You need of Small quantity of salt, pepper, flour for squid.
3. You need 1 of cucumber (cut in half lengthwise, cut into 5~7mm slices, sprinkle salt and leave to drain moisture out well).
4. Prepare 1 stick of celery (cut into 3cm length).
5. Prepare 1 tsp of ginger (chopped finely).
6. You need 1/2 of ~1 tsp garlic (chopped finely).
7. It's 1 pinch of crushed red pepper.
8. It's 2 tbsp of * sake.
9. You need 1 tbsp of * soy sauce.
10. It's 1/2 of ~1 tsp * chicken broth(chicken stock powder).
11. It's 1 tbsp of vegetable oil.
12. You need 1 tsp of sesame oil.

Spicy Korean Stir-fried Squid is a delicious way to eat squid. Check out this dish below ;) Skip to Recipe 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.

Stir-fried Squid & Cucumber step by step

1. Remove water from the squid well, sprinkle salt, peppe and flour, shake off excess..
2. Heat the vegetable oil in a pan, stir-fry ginger and crushed red pepper with low heat. Add squid, celery, cucumber and cook for 1~2 mins over high heat. Add seasonings marked with * and keep stir-frying until the flavor blended..
3. To finish it off, pour sesame oil from the edge of the pan to inside of it, stir once..

This squid dish is one of the most popular spicy dishes in Korean cuisine. The squid is cut into bite-sized pieces and stir-fried in a slightly sweet red chile sauce along with some vegetables. The sauce's main ingredients are gochujang (fermented chile pepper paste) and gochugaru (chile pepper flakes). For an authentic dish, there simply is no substitute for them. Add the squid to the pan and stir-fry for one minute.