Summer salad with squid, bell pepper and fresh cucumber 🥗

Kitchen appliances and utensils: hob, stewpan or pan, mortar, latex glove, cutting board, knife, grater, sieve, several bowls, teaspoon.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. Peeled garlic is cut into several pieces and sent to a mortar.
   
2. To process chili peppers, a glove is put on the hand that will take the ingredient. First, a part near the peduncle is cut off and removed from the pepper. Pepper is cut in half in the longitudinal plane. Seeds are carefully scrubbed with a knife. Pepper is cut across in half rings and sent to a mortar to garlic. About 1 teaspoon of sugar is added to the mortar. The ingredients are crushed to a pasty state. There will be little paste, so you need to carefully collect everything that remains on the walls. The mass is transferred to the bowl.
   
3. In a bowl, 100 milliliters of fish sauce is added to the paste.
   
4. The ingredients in the bowl are thoroughly mixed. Before processing, you need to roll the lime on the table, pressing firmly with your hand from above. The zest is washed off with lime by means of a fine grater, while it is important not to capture the white part - it is bitter. Therefore, when rubbing, it is often necessary to rotate the fetus. Grated zest is poured into a bowl with fish sauce.
   
5. Lime is cut in half, after which juice is squeezed from it and poured into a bowl for the sauce.
   
6. Crude squids are laid out in a bowl and poured with boiling water. All the time they need to be stirred, so it will be better to leave the skin from them.
   
7. Each piece of squid delivered from a bowl is cut in half, the entrails are cleaned, and the chitin plate is removed. The water in which the squid was processed is poured through a sieve back into a saucepan or stewpan and brought to a boil again.
8. Peeled cucumbers are cut in two lengthwise, after which they are cut into oblique slices at an angle of 45 °.
   
9. When the water boils, it must be poured into a bowl with processed squids and kept in boiling water for about 2 minutes.
   
10. At this time, the onion is finely chopped and poured to the processed cucumber.
    
11. Half of the bell pepper, peeled of the stalk, septum and seeds, is chopped with a thin straw.
    
12. Celery stalks need to be peeled from the hard peel from the outside. After this, the stems are stacked and cut like cucumbers at an angle into thin strips.
    
13. The water from the squid is again poured into the stewpan through a sieve, a little new is added to it, after which it needs to be boiled again. When the water boils, it must be poured into squids a third time. Squids are taken out of hot water into a separate container, after which a little cold water is poured on them. A thin film is removed from the squid.
    
14. Squids are cut into strips and sprinkled in a bowl to the processed ingredients.
    
15. 10 sheets of coarsely chopped mint are added to the bowl. There is pouring dressing from fish sauce.The ingredients are thoroughly mixed.
    
16. Lettuce is laid out on a plate lined with lettuce leaves. This completes the cooking process, enjoy your meal.
    

Video recipe

The video covers every moment of cooking a salad with squid and fresh cucumber with detailed comments and advice of the author. After watching the video, it will become clear in advance what, how and in what sequence you need to do. You can also always turn to him for help if you encounter difficulties with step-by-step guidance.

Salad with squid and fresh cucumber is a classic of Thai cuisine. He will delight with delicate squid meat, a vegetable component and dressing based on fish sauce. The most interesting thing is that the dish combines 4 tastes: sour, sweet, salty and spicy, which is uncharacteristic for our cuisine, and therefore you can surprise anyone with such a treat. Another original point is the dressing, in which there are no fatty ingredients, which lowers calorie content and makes the product easier.