How to Cook Fresh and Dried Squid Porridge to Warm Baby’s Belly

Porridge is not only a favorite food of many people but also a nutritious snack for children. There are many ways to cook delicious porridge such as meat porridge, chicken porridge, duck porridge, fish, squid … In which, squid porridge has a very delicious and attractive taste. Squid is sold a lot in markets and most supermarkets in Vietnam. What’s more, squid is also easy to prepare, so you can quickly go to the kitchen to supplement nutrition for your baby and family today.

How to cook fresh squid porridge

Fresh squid porridge ingredients

• 1kg fresh squid, big baby
• 150g fragrant rice
• 50g dried squid
• 50g dried shrimp
• 500g pork bones
• 1 small piece of ginger
• Salt, fish sauce, pepper
• 100g thinly sliced ​​purple onion
• 50g green onions, cilantro
• 5 purple onions
• 1 tablespoon minced red onion
• 1 tablespoon garlic
• Chili lemon
• Vinegar, cooking oil

Steps to cook fresh squid porridge

Step 1: Prepare ingredients

• First, you take the ginger to peel and wash, half finely chopped, half finely chopped.
• Squid is taken to peel off the outer membrane, remove the black ink capsule, cut it in half to lengthen the squid and then wash it inside and out. Soak in vinegar mixed with a little minced ginger to make the ink white and less fishy. Then, the squid head peels off the membrane, squeezes out the eyes and ink sacs, washes with clean water and soaks with ginger and squid body for 10 minutes. Then take it out, wash it and pat it dry. Squid body is cut into 3cm square pieces, cut into squares on the inside, cut into bite-sized pieces, marinated with salt, minced ginger, ground pepper and leave for 30 minutes to infuse the spices.
• Dried squid is cooked.
• Red onion washed and smashed.
• Wash pork bones to cook broth.
• The rice is washed, drained, and roasted with cooking oil with fragrant onions and garlic. When the rice starts to dry, turn off the heat.
• Green onions, coriander, washed, drained, and finely chopped.
• Red onion peeled, washed, chopped and then fried, drained.

Step 2: How to make fresh squid porridge

• After the broth is washed, put in a pot with 4 liters of water, 5 smashed purple onions, dried shrimp, grilled dried squid, half a teaspoon of ground pepper, half a teaspoon of salt, put on the stove to cook on low heat. , without lid, stew until bone soft. You should pay attention to skim regularly to make the broth clear and clean.
• When the bone broth is soft, the comb takes the water through another pot, put the rice in to cook the porridge. When the porridge is soft, let it low, season to taste, keep the heat low to keep the porridge hot until it’s time to eat.
• Stir-fry squid: put the pan on the stove with 3 tablespoons of cooking oil, saute minced onion and garlic on high heat, put the squid on high heat and stir-fry quickly so that the squid is cooked evenly, scoop out into a bowl.

Step 3: Present and enjoy

Now, you scoop the hot porridge into the bowl, put the squid in and mix well, sprinkle cilantro and red onion on the surface. Porridge is served hot, adding a little fish sauce, lemon, chili and drunken pepper is the best.

With this way of cooking fresh squid porridge, the porridge has a sweet aroma thanks to the slices of freshly cooked squid, crispy but not chewy, absorbent. Well-cooked porridge without being too thick or too thin will also be more suitable for babies.

How to cook dried squid porridge

Ingredients for cooking dried squid porridge

• 2-3 dried squids (you can change the quantity depending on your preference)
• ½ cup of plain rice
• ¼ cup of glutinous rice
• Pig blood
• 1 piece of ginger
• Salt, pepper, seasoning, fish sauce
• Green onions, dried onions, white wine, bean sprouts
• Accompaniment: Stir-fry or herbal egg

Instructions on how to cook dried squid porridge

Step 1: Prepare ingredients

Wash dried squid, soak in a bowl of filtered water mixed with a little white wine for about 30 minutes to soften the squid. You can bring squid beard to stew with bones.

Step 2: Cook dried squid porridge

• Mix glutinous rice and plain rice together, wash and drain.
• Put a little cooking oil in a small pot, saute the onions, lightly roast the rice mixture for 3-5 minutes.
• Pour filtered water or if bone broth is available, pour it into a pot of roasted rice, cook on low heat until the rice grains are soft and swell.
• Peel the ginger, wash it and cut it into small pieces.
• The bean sprouts are washed and drained.
• When the squid is dry and soft, then wash it again with clean water, cut it into strips with scissors.
• Now, you heat a little cooking oil, drop onions and ginger into the pan, add squid and stir-fry, season with a little fish sauce and sugar.
• Pre-boiled pig blood, cut the mandarin and eat it.
• When the porridge pot has expanded and softened, add a little salt to taste and in turn add the fried dried squid into the pot.
• Bring to a boil, stirring gently with a ladle so that the rice grains do not stick to the bottom of the pot.
• Add more pork blood to cook together, when the porridge boils again, add seasoning to taste.

How to choose delicious fresh and dried squid

Squid you buy at the supermarket or market is fine as long as it is based on the following characteristics:

• Should choose a large fish with thick meat, carrying a gray outer shell. If squid is not available, cuttlefish or squid rice can be substituted. But it is still best to choose squid because the meat is tougher and more fragrant.
• For dried squid and dried shrimp, you should buy small dried squid to cook naturally sweet broth.

When eating, you add a little scallions and serve with quails or herbs eggs, bean sprouts, it’s great.

So, now that you know how to cook delicious dried squid and fresh squid porridge , what are you thinking without immediately starting to prepare ingredients and make a bowl of porridge for the whole family to enjoy. Cooking squid porridge is both quick and delicious, wish you success!