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Deep Fried Squids with Garlic in Thai, Pla Muk Tod Gratiam

Deep Fried Squids with Garlic

ปลาหมึกทอดกระเทียม
Pla Muk Tod Gratiam

Prepare:

1 cup fresh squids (clean and cut it thick in circle pieces)
1/2 cup tapioca flour
2 cups vegetable oil
1/2 cup crushed garlic
2 tsp. pepper
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. sugar
Sliced tomato, cucumber, lettuce as much as you want
1 small cup of hot sauce

Cooking Instructions:

1. Drop the squid into a bowl of tapioca flour when it’s still wet.

2. Deep fry the squids in hot oil until it turns gold and crunchy. Remove from the pan and leave it drain.

3. In a different pan, add 1 tbsp. oil and garlic. Fry the garlic until it turns yellow.

4. After that, add fried squids, pepper, salt, sugar and stir quickly.

5. Turn off the fire. Serve it with sliced tomato, cucumber, lettuce as much as you want. Don’t forget hot sauce or sweet plum sauce for the children.

I love to eat squids! My husband knew that the best. When I saw fresh squids with clear and hard skin by the beach market, my eyes get big. Yummy! I have to eat more squids tomorrow!

Note from Vern: Oh my yes, this is a fact. When we go to the Korean BBQ – where we can fry the food on a grill type surface right at our table she covers her side with squid. She grills it, and there is another part of the pan that lets you heat it in the broth – she covers her side with squid in there too. It’s no exaggeration to say that she has a good 10 ounces of squid when we visit those places. It’s a wonder they make any money off us. It’s all you can eat for just 3 dollars a person. She eats all hers in Squid. I eat most of mine in the ice-cream after I eat a lot of vegetables and chicken. Thailand is so great for incredible food!

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Thai Food Noodle Recipe: Pad Si Iw
(Thick Noodle Stir-Fried with Shrimp and Squid)

Pad Si Iw (Thick Noodle Stir-Fried with Shrimp and Squid)

Prepare:

2 cups thick noodle
1 cup cooked squid and shrimp (peeled, de-veined)
1 egg
2 tbsp. minecd garlic
1 tbsp. sweet black soybean sauce
1 tbsp. soy sauce

1 tbsp. oyster sauce (Depend on which brand you use, some are too salty)
1 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tsp. sugar
1 tbsp. olive oil
1 handful Chinese kale
1/2 cup sliced carrot
1/2 cup sliced tomato
1 handful fresh bean sprouts
1 piece lemon

Cooking Instructions:

1. Heat the pan and fry garlic with olive oil until it smells aromatic.  In a cup, make the sauce ready by putting black soybean sauce, soybean sauce, sugar, oyster sauce together.

2. Add the egg. Beat it and let it cook for 2 minutes.

3. Now, add squid, shrimp or chicken as you like and then mixed sauce.

4. Add noodle and black soybean sauce then mix well.

5. Put chinese kale, carrot, tomato and cook for 3 minutes. Now turn off the fire. Serve Pad Si Iw with lemon and fresh bean sprouts on a side.

Pad Si Iw is my very first cooking recipes I can do beside fried egg, omelet, fried rice and MAMA instant noodle. My cousin taught me how to cook this one. You can find this food at any restaurant that cook to order. They must have this as a tradition.

I cooked this food on that day because I was angry. After the baby fall asleep the day before I cook Pad Si Iw, I went out to buy food. Secretly, I stop at Tesco for my own enjoyment ( a quick enjoyment I would say). Also, I want to look for bread for my lovely husband….

There was no bread!!!.. I should expect that to happen. At the store, they always don’t have what you want, especially when you really want it.

So, I drove back home in a hurry. At the same time, I was thinking about what else we can get for lunch. I passed one restaurant on the way back home and think to myself ” if someone dare to open a restaurant, they must know how to cook Pad Si Iw with a good taste”. Undoubtedly, the Pad Si Iw they cook must be good because it is very basic and easy. Any restaurant that cook food to order must cook this dish quite well. Well enough that they feel confident to sell it.

I turn around to that restaurant and got one to take home for Vern. Again thinking, if this Pad Si Iw is bad, I will tell restaurant people to go commit suicide….. hahaha like a Samurai… (fail on the job and punish himself, seppuku or as you know for Hara-kiri.) I will suggest them to do Hara-Kiri.

and it turn out that Pad Si Iw he cooked was very bad!!!!!!!!! but I am not going to tell him to do that. I was so angry that I waste money bought food from him when I know I can cook better….. kick kick slap slap to myself and went shopping for Pad Si Iw ingredients the next day.

Click here for a cooking video of Pad Si Iw. It was very good food. haha I am not being boastful.

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