Black Bean Sauce Squid
1 lb Squid, cleaned -Chinese-style (see below) 2 tb Fermented, salted black -beans (available at Asian -groceries) 2 Cloves garlic, minced 2 tb Rice wine, or 2 Tbs mirin -or sherry...
Ingredients
- 1lbsquid, cleaned
- 2tb rice wine, or 2 tbs mirin
- 2scallions, chopped into
- 1ts sugar
- 1ts cornstarch dissolved in
- 1tb water
- 2tb vegetable oil
Directions
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1 lb Squid, cleaned -Chinese-style (see below) 2 tb Fermented, salted black -beans (available at Asian -groceries) 2 Cloves garlic, minced 2
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In fact it is quite easy
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The black beans themselves, fermented and salted when you buy them, are the sauce
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All you do is add a little rice wine to make a paste
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Then it's just like any other stir-fry++a couple of minutes of high-heat cooking, continuously stirring, and the dish is done
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Prepare black bean sauce mixture by adding to the beans: rice wine, soy sauce and sugar
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Let sit for 15 minutes
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Saute garlic and ginger in the oil over medium heat in a heavy frying pan or wok until garlic is slightly browned