Stir-fried Squid
- Korean Food Addict
- Sep 18, 2025
15 min
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Stir-fried Squid
Stir-fried Squid is a classic Korean dish with spicy sweet sauce. Scoring the squid helps sauce penetrate, and proper oil use is essential.
Flavor Secret
Score the inside of squid diagonally so sauce soaks in well. Stir-fry quickly on high heat to keep it tender, not chewy.
Cooking Tips
Using too much oil causes sauce to separate. When the scored parts curl up, the squid is cooked.
Serving
Great as a side dish with rice or as a drinking snack. Mix leftover sauce with rice for extra flavor.
Instructions:
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Clean Squid
- Split squid body in half
- Remove intestines
- Remove eyes and mouth from tentacles
- Clean Squid
- Split squid body in half
- Remove intestines
- Remove eyes and mouth from tentacles
- Remove Suction Cups
- Remove suction cups with salt
- Rinse thoroughly
- Cut tentacles into 4cm lengths
- Score Squid
- Peel skin with salt
- Score inside diagonally at 0.3cm intervals
- Cut into 4cm×2cm pieces
- Prepare Vegetables
- Julienne onion 1cm wide
- Slice peppers diagonally
- Slice green onion diagonally
- Make Sauce
- Mix 1 tbsp gochujang, 2/3 tbsp chili powder
- Add half tbsp sugar
- Add minced onion, garlic, ginger, soy sauce
- Stir-fry
- Sauté onion in oil first
- Stir-fry squid on high heat
- Add sauce when squid curls
- Add Vegetables
- Add peppers and green onion
- Mix thoroughly
- Add sesame oil and seeds
- Complete
- Transfer to plate
- Sprinkle sesame seeds
- Serve with rice
Recipe Notes:
- Score squid so sauce penetrates well.
- Too much oil causes sauce separation.
- Stir-fry quickly on high heat to keep tender.
- Squid is done when scored parts curl.
- Sauté onion first for sweetness.
- Add peppers last for crunch.
- Add sesame oil just before turning off heat.
- Great as side dish or drinking snack.
Ingredients:
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Main Ingredients
- 1 squid
- 0.25 onion
- 1 red chili
- 1 green chili
- 1 green onion
- some salt
- some cooking oil
Sauce
- 1 tbsp gochujang
- 0.67 tbsp chili powder
- 0.5 tbsp sugar
- some minced green onion
- some minced garlic
- some minced ginger
- some pepper, sesame, sesame oil, soy sauce