Sous Vide Baby Squid Stuffed with Thai-Style Salsa

Anova Culinary

These stuffed baby squids look great and taste awesome, too. The juicy, Thai-influenced salsa goes well with the tender squid and charred flavors from finishing them in a grill pan.

Author

Christina Wylie

Christina Wylie is an award-winning writer, author, editor, food stylist, recipe creator, entrepreneur and radio host whose work has been featured in The Times & The Sunday Times, Time Out (Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong and Dubai), Traveler’s Digest, Fah Thai Magazine, Broadsheet, Wining & Dining and many other internationally renowned publications. In 2013, after almost a decade of working as an international journalist, Christina founded the online lifestyle magazine The GAB Magazine, for which she now leads a team of 60 writers based all across Australia. She then founded Samui Life Magazine in 2016. After working as a recipe creator for Anova Culinary for over a year, she signed a cookbook contract with the American-based, international publishing company Quarto. Her cookbook, titled The Sous Vide Kitchen: Techniques, Ideas, and More Than 100 Recipes to Cook at Home, was published worldwide in 2017. She wrote, styled, and photographed everything that you see within that book. In 2017 she opened her first restaurant, Bootlegger, in Koh Samui, Thailand. She is currently in the initial stages of launching Bootlegger 2 in Phuket in 2018, and is looking to open Bootlegger 3 in Bangkok in 2019. She is currently working towards stepping into the world of food and travel presenting. As an entrepreneur herself, Christina co-founded the charity initiative Project Gen Z in 2015 to teach orphaned Cambodian children entrepreneurial skills. A British expat born and raised in Hong Kong, Christina has worked across the globe, and has lived in Thailand, London, Hong Kong, Australia and South Africa over the years.

Prep Time: 00:20

Recipe Time: 01:00

Temperature : 136.4F / 58C

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Set the Anova Sous Vide Precision Cooker to 136ºF (58ºC).
  2. Season the squid with salt and pepper. Place in a large zipper lock bag with the olive oil. Seal the bag using the water immersion technique and place in the water bath. Set the timer for 1 hour.
  3. About 5 minutes before the squid are finished, prepare the salsa: Stir together tomatoes, cilantro, scallion, lime juice, fish sauce, and palm sugar in a medium bowl. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Finishing Steps

  1. When the timer goes off, remove the bag from the water bath. Remove the squid from the bag and pat dry. Discard any cooking liquid.
  2. Stuff salsa into the squid bodies. Reserve extra for serving.
  3. Heat rice bran oil in a grill pan over high heat. When the oil just begins to smoke, add the stuffed squid and tentacles. Grill until charred, about 30 seconds per side.
  4. Plate extra salsa alongside stuffed squid. Top salsa with grilled tentacles. Serve.