Friday, January 21, 2011

Stir Fried Squid with Salted Egg Yolk

This looks good.  Maybe will try it by deepfrying the squid with starch first and make the duck egg mixture not so saucy...


Stir Fried Squid With Salted Egg Yolk


Stir Fried Squid With Salted Egg Yolk
(Pla Muek Phad Khai Kem)

Pla Muek = Squid
Phad = Stir Fry
Khai = Egg
Kem = Salty
Khai Kem = Salted Egg
Dang = red color
Khai Dang = Egg yolk

I ate this menu first time in Thai-Chinese Restaurant in Thailand. I do remember that it is one of expensive dish if compare with other normal dishes. Why?? Because of squid, salted egg yolk and the method how to cook. The secret of this dish, you need to have fresh squid, wash clean and premium quality of salted duck eggs. Why? Because of fresh squid is less smell. And good quality of salted duck eggs will give you really nice color of egg yolk :P And it taste great!!

Thanks to www.maesalim.com that she shared a good recipe with me today. And thanks to Nong Buai that she cooked and shared on Singtip.com then I can recall that I would try to cook maesalim's recipe. I did not follow all of her recipe but I get some tips from her website and they are very useful.

Ingredients (2 serve):

- 300 grams of squid, wash clean, diced
- 3 salted duck egg yolks
- 5 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 1 spring onion, cut into 1'' length
- 1 red chili, diced
- 1 tbsp of Thai roasted chili paste (Num Prik Phao)
- 1 tbsp of oyster sauce
- 1/2 tbsp of Thai fish sauce
- 1/2 tbsp of soy sauce
- 1 tsp of sugar
- 2 tbsp of Chinese wine (For cooking)
- pepper for seasoning
- 1 tbsp of vegetable oil

To prepare the squids


- Wash clean, drain.
- Making pattern and cut into square pieces.

To prepare egg yolk sauce

- Using only yolk.
- Blend them or chop until very fine.
- Combine blended yolks with sugar, fish sauce, soy sauce, oyster sauce, Thai roasted chili paste (Num Prik Phao) and Chinese wine.

Directions


- Add 1 tbsp of oil into frying pan over medium heat.
- Add chopped garlic, fry until medium brown.
- Transfer diced squid into the pan, keep stirring until the squid almost done.
- Add egg yolk sauce and diced spring onion. Continue to stir until the quid is done.
- Add diced red chili, stir for 10 sec. Turn off the heat.
- Serve immediately with Thai Jasmin rice!!

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