Serves 4
Preparation time
15 minutes
Cooking time
2 minutes
Ingredients:
600g small whole calamari
or squid
1/3 cup plain flour
2 teaspoons chilli flour
1 tablespoon sea salt
Oil for frying
Spring onions, sliced
(To decorate)
Lemon wedges
➊
Clean calamari or squid by gently
pulling head and tentacles away
from body. Pull out the clear
backbone from inside of body
and stomach and discard.
Cut tentacles from head just
below the eyes, discard head.
Remove side wings and fine
membrane from body.
➋
Rinse body, tentacles and wings
thoroughly and dry with paper
towel. Cut calamari down the
centre and open flat, slice body
and wings into 5mm strips.
➌
Combine flour, chilli powder
and salt.
➍
Add calamari and toss to coat,
shaking off excess flour mixture.
➏
Heat oil in deep fryer and when hot
add half the calamari and cook for
1 minute or until just tender and
beginning to colour.
➐
Remove from oil, lifting basket and
allow to drain on paper towel.
Repeat with remaining calamari.
➑
Serve with sliced spring onions
and lemon wedges.
Chilli Salt Calamari
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