Although octopus has many names, there are actually two common names:
leggy
Short-legged
Generally, long legs are a little red in color. Because it is fleshy, it is more expensive than short legs and tastes better.
Because I live by the sea, octopus, a common little seafood, is often eaten, and it is also my favorite little seafood. You can do it in many ways, but I think these two methods are more worthy of the delicious octopus. Let's share them with you.
How to make octopus delicious?
First, seafood and mushrooms mixed with octopus
The main ingredients are fresh octopus and seafood mushrooms.
Ingredients Xiaomi spicy and shallots
Seasoning a fresh soy sauce, sugar, horseradish.
working methods
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Wash the seafood mushrooms, and tear the big ones into long strips by hand. Cut the millet and shallots into small pieces for use.
Put water in the pot. When the water bubbles at the edge of the pot, blanch the octopus in the pot. Blanch the octopus to just a dozen rolls, and then remove the cold water. Blanch the seafood mushrooms in a pot, take them out and let them cool, and then squeeze them out for later use.
Mix seafood mushrooms, octopus, millet and shallots together, pour a mouthful of fresh soy sauce, squeeze in horseradish and mix well to serve.
Delicious tips
The main point of making this cold octopus is to scald the octopus, so don't use boiling water when scalding the octopus, because it is easy to scald the octopus. As long as the water bubbles at the edge of the pot, you can put the octopus in the pot and blanch it. Just roll it and you can take it out. It's too cold. If you pass ice water, the effect will be better.
Because octopus itself has salty taste, in order to highlight its taste and umami, it is enough to season it with a little fresh soy sauce. I feel that adding other seasonings is superfluous, but this can be adjusted according to your own taste.
In fact, many side dishes can be mixed in this way to make octopus, such as cucumber and pepper.
trait
Octopus is fresh and tender in the mouth, and the unique flavor of seafood mushrooms has soaked the fresh fragrance of octopus. Coupled with the spicy taste of millet and the choking of horseradish, it is a delicious appetizer.
Second, fried octopus in sauce.
Main ingredient octopus
Ingredients onion, ginger, garlic and pepper
Seasoning soy sauce, cooking wine, sugar, oyster sauce.
working methods
The octopus is washed to remove internal organs, eyes and mouth, and the silt on the wrist is wiped off, and the knife is changed into large pieces.
Put water in the pot, the octopus blanchs in the pot and takes out cold water. Slice the pepper, blanch and take it out.
Stir-fry onion, ginger and garlic in oil, stir-fry in soy sauce, cook wine and add some sugar to synthesize sauce flavor. Put the scalded octopus and pepper into the pot, stir well, wrap the octopus in sauce and add oyster sauce to taste.
Delicious tips:
Because octopus is generally fried, it stays in the pot for a short time and is not easy to taste. Choose soy sauce or bean paste to fry, so that the sauce can wrap the octopus and the fried octopus will have a taste.
Side dishes can be leeks and shallots, and everyone's favorite dishes are fried.
When frying soy sauce, pay attention to stir-fry the sauce slowly with low fire, and then add cooking wine and sugar to synthesize the taste. After the octopus is cooked, stir-fry it for a few times on high fire, and you can get out of the pot. Don't let the octopus stay in the pot for too long, it will cause the octopus to get old.
trait
Octopus is tender and delicious, with a strong sauce flavor. It is a good food to go with wine.
Finally, I want to talk about several key points of octopus:
Octopus must be eaten fresh. Dead octopus has lost its proper taste and tastes boring.
The key to the freshness of octopus is blanching, so no matter how you make octopus, you must pay attention to mastering the heat when blanching. If there is ice water, the effect of supercooling with ice water will be better.
Because octopus is cold, you can add more fried octopus ginger. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should pay attention to diet.