# @mengs_eats on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zda3G5LRVM8
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/64802111-mengs-eats-youtube
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-21T21:00:38.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** mengseats (@mengs_eats) — https://gondola.cc/mengs_eats

## Caption

Thai Calamari 🇹🇭🦑

Ingredients:

Calamari
- 1 lb of squid
- 1 thai chili
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 small piece of ginger
- 1 tbsp fish sauce
- ½ cup coconut milk

Flour
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup rice flour
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- 1 tsp white pepper
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder

Sauce
- 1 thai chili
- 1 clove garlic
- Handful of cilantro
- 1/2 a shallot
- 5 cherry tomatoes
- 2 tsp fish sauce
- 2 tsp honey
- 1/2 lime
- 2 tbsp oil

Other
- Oil
- Handful of thail basil

Directions:
1. Clean and prep your squid, then cut into rings.
2. Pound chili, garlic, and ginger into a paste, then mix your squid, paste, fish sauce, and coconut milk together, and rest for at least 15 minutes.
3. Combine flour ingredients in a bowl, then dredge your squid in the flour mixture, shaking off the excess.
4. Fry at 350 for 2 minutes, then rest and fry at 400 for 1 minute.
5. Fry thai basil until crispy.
6. For the sauce, pound chili and garlic into a paste, then pound shallot and cilantro, cherry tomatoes, then mix in the rest of the ingredients.
7. Serve calamari with fried thai basil and your sauce

#calamari #thaifood

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