Ginisang Pusit

Ginisang Pusit

(Sautéed Squid)

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons cooking oil

1 thumb-size ginger, cut to strips

6 to 10 cloves garlic, minced

1 medium bulb onion, chopped

6 medium red tomatoes, sliced

500 grams canned squid in natural ink

2 to 4 tablespoons fish sauce

4 to 6 long chili (siling haba)

Cooking Instructions:

Heat the cooking oil in a pan.  Toss in the ginger.  When the ginger turns light brown, add garlic and sauté until medium brown.  Add the onion and stir until slightly tender.  Put fish sauce.  Mix until the fish sauce is reduced.  Put the tomatoes and cover.  Stir occasionally until the tomato juice oozes out of the fruit.  Pour in the canned squid and long chili.  Cover and simmer for a few minutes.  Add fish sauce or table salt if necessary. 

This recipe will serve up to three people.