Dinner

Salt and Pepper Squid with Rice and Cucumber

Name: Salt and Pepper Squid with Rice and Cucumber
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 200 g Squid, cleaned, tubes scored and cut into pieces; 20 g Cornflour; Half a teaspoon Chinese five spice; 1 tsp, coarsely ground Black pepper; 1 tsp flaky salt Salt; 10 g Rapeseed oil; One, sliced Fresh red chilli; 2 cloves, about 6 g Garlic; 30 g Spring onion; 140 g Cooked white rice; 80 g Cucumber

Squid dusted in cornflour and five spice, fried in a shallow film of oil and tossed with chilli, garlic and spring onion. Rice and cold cucumber alongside. 530 kcal.

Calories: 530kcal
Protein: 37g
Fat: 13g
Carbs: 63g

Per serving, makes 1. 20 minutes of work. Published 8 September 2026.

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Ingredients

Squid, cleaned, tubes scored and cut into pieces200 g
Weighed raw.
Cornflour20 g
Chinese five spiceHalf a teaspoon
Black pepper1 tsp, coarsely ground
Salt1 tsp flaky salt
Rapeseed oil10 g
Fresh red chilliOne, sliced
Garlic2 cloves, about 6 g
Spring onion30 g
Cooked white rice140 g
Cooked weight. About 50 g of dry rice becomes 130 g cooked.
Cucumber80 g

Method

Dry the squid thoroughly on kitchen paper. Mix the cornflour, five spice, pepper and half the salt in a bowl and toss the squid through it until every piece is dusted.
Heat the oil in a wide pan over a high heat until it shimmers. Lay the squid in a single layer and leave it for a minute before turning. Another minute on the other side and it is done. Lift it out.
In the same pan, fry the chilli, garlic and spring onion for thirty seconds, then return the squid and toss it through with the rest of the salt.
Serve with the rice and the cucumber sliced thin, which is there to cool your mouth.

Worth knowing

Ten grams of oil in a wide pan is a film, not a deep fry. The cornflour crisps in it if the pan is hot enough and the squid is dry enough. Crowd the pan and it will not.
The takeaway version is deep-fried, and the batter takes up more oil than you would guess. Same squid, roughly twice the calories.

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