Stir fried Calamari with chilli and basil
Stir fried Calamari with chilli and basil

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Add the squid to the pan and stir-fry for one minute. Tip in the shallots, chillies, peas, fish sauce, oyster sauce and sugar and continue to stir-fry for three minutes. Add the basil and give one.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have stir fried calamari with chilli and basil using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Stir fried Calamari with chilli and basil:
  1. Get 5-8 bird's eye chili
  2. Take 2-3 cloves garlic
  3. Take 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  4. Prepare 1 cup vegetable oil (to fry crispy basil)
  5. Get 1 carrot
  6. Prepare 2-3 handful sweet basil leaves (save half to fry for crispy
  7. Get basil)
  8. Prepare 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
  9. Make ready 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
  10. Make ready 1 tablespoon fish sauce
  11. Take 1 1/2 brown sugar
  12. Make ready 1/2 onion
  13. Take Half small pack green beans
  14. Get Seafood – calamari (you can add mussels or prawns)

Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Repeat with the remaining basil leaves (use about a couple of handful). Heat a film of oil in a frying pan on high heat. Sauté garlic and ginger until they begin to go golden.

Instructions to make Stir fried Calamari with chilli and basil:
  1. To crispy-fry the sweet basil leaves, heat the oil in a small pan, add 5-6 leaves at a time and cook for 15-20 seconds, or until crisp. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Repeat with the remaining basil leaves (use about a couple of handful). Leave it aside.
  2. Sliced carrot into 4-5 cm long stick
  3. Cut calamari into ring shape or you can buy cooked one in the pack
  4. Finely chop the onion
  5. Cut green beans into 4-5 cm
  6. Crush garlic and chilies in mortar
  7. Heat oil in the pan over medium heat and add pounded mixture of garlic and chilli. Stir until fragrant.
  8. Add onion, green beans and carrot stir until it's almost cooked
  9. Season with oyster sauce, fish sauce, light soy sauce, sugar and some water
  10. Add calamari and sweet basil. Mix well. Serve with jasmine rice

Stir constantly so they do not burn. Add chilli and calamari (scored side down) to the pan and stir fry until the calamari pieces begin to curl up. Tender fresh calamari is tossed with sweet chilli sauce, hokkien noodles and fresh vegetables to create this delicious Asian stir-fry in no time at all. Heat the oil in a wok over high heat until hot and quickly fry the chillies. Toss in the basil at the last second and stir a couple of times until wilted.

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