Hot Butter Cuttlefish Recipe

Follow this simple recipe to make mouth watering Sri Lankan Hot Butter Cuttlefish. This is crunchy, chewy and flavorsome.

Ingredients

• Cuttlefish - 250g
• Corn flour - 50g
• All purpose flour - 50g
• Butter - 02 tbsp
• Salt - 02 tsp
• Chili paste - 02 tbsp
• Egg - 01
• Pepper - 01 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 01 tsp
• Chili powder - 01 tsp
• Spring Onion
• Capsicum - 01 (Sliced)
• Oil for deep frying

Method

• Cut cuttlefish into rings or flowers.
• Mix cuttlefish with 01 tsp of turmeric powder, 01 tsp of chili powder, 1/2 tsp of pepper powder and salt. Once this is mixed well, keep it aside and let it marinate around 15-20mins.
• Then, add egg whites and mix.
• Mix corn flour, all purpose flour, pepper, turmeric powder, chili powder and salt together.
• Mix cuttlefish with the flour mixture.
• Heat oil and deep fry cuttlefish until light brown.
• When you fry cuttlefish make sure your flame is very low. Otherwise, the batter will be fried soon, but the cuttlefish will not.
• Melt butter in a pan and add chili paste into this. Here, instead of adding chili paste you can use chili pieces, sugar and salt.
• Add spring onions and capsicum. Keep this closed around 01-02 mins until spring onions are half cooked.
• Add cuttlefish into the pan and stir till all ingredients are well combined.
• Our delicious hot butter cuttlefish is ready. Serve hot and enjoy.