Squid Salad with Tamarind Sauce

Ingredients

• sriracha sauce (Asian chili sauce) to taste if desired
• 1 cup thinly sliced red onion
• ¹/₃ cup fresh mint leaves, washed well and spun dry
• ¹/₃ cup fresh basil leaves (preferably Thai basil), washed well and spun dry
• 1 pound cleaned large squid
• Tabasco to taste if not drizzling sriracha sauce on salad
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• + 5 more ingredients
• • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1 ½ tablespoons Asian fish sauce (preferably nuoc mam)
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
  • ¼ cup warm water
  • 2 tablespoons tamarind (from a pliable block)

1. Make sauce: In a bowl stir together tamarind and warm water, mashing tamarind gently, about 4 minutes and strain through a fine sieve into a bowl, pressing hard on solids. Add remaining sauce ingredients, stirring until sugar is dissolved. 2. Flower-cut squid (procedure follows) or cut squid...

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