Name: Braised Octopus
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1000g Hairtail; 1 head garlic; 1 tablespoon Ginger powder; 1 tablespoon Rice wine; Some pepper; 1 tablespoon Highly Liquor; Some Cooking oil; 1 tablespoon Soy sauce; Some salt; 2 capsules crystal sugar; 3 pcs Dried red chili

Braised Octopus

by Happy and happy

4.6 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

30m

Serving

When I was a child, I especially liked eating octopus. I remember that the braised octopus made by my dad was very delicious at that time, but I didn't make it before because I didn't like to tidy up the fish. After getting married, I tried to cook hairtail a few times. Maybe it was too boring at that time and it was always bad. The hairtail was easily broken up by me. It doesn't become chunks, and it tastes fishy, so I simply don't make it. Up. Later, I had a child, and the child also liked to eat octopus. Every time I ate octopus outside, he said it was delicious, and asked me why I didn’t make it! I felt very shameless as a mother who was not doing well, so I started to study all kinds of hairtail methods with great concentration, and wanted to make beautiful and complete hairtail pieces.
Because I used to see my dad always have a layer of batter to make hairtail, and then go to the oil pan to fry, I stubbornly think that the hairtail must be wrapped in batter to be fried, but after a few tries, the batter was not fried, and it was finally baked. When it tastes delicious, the batter is scattered, and the sauce becomes a paste in the pot! After I started to practice cooking, I didn't need to add the batter at all, and fried the octopus cubes directly into the pot. I didn't expect it to fry very well, and the fish cubes that came out were intact. After a few more exercises, I have mastered the tips for frying fish and the main points of removing fishy fish. Now I don’t have to worry about the hairtail being badly done. These precautions for making hairtail are written at the end of the article.
Hairtail is rich in fat, protein, vitamin A, unsaturated fatty acid, phosphorus, calcium, iron, iodine and other nutrients. It is an ideal nourishing food for the elderly, children, and pregnant women. It is especially suitable for shortness of breath, fatigue, chronic illness, and blood deficiency. People who feel dizzy, eat less and lose weight, suffer from malnutrition, and have dry skin.
Hairtail is warm in nature and sweet in taste. It has the effects of warming stomach, nourishing skin, nourishing qi, nourishing blood, strengthening the heart and kidney, relieving muscles and blood, reducing inflammation and phlegm, clearing the brain, relieving diarrhea, eliminating fatigue, and nourishing the mind.
The content of DHA and EPA in hairtail is higher than that of freshwater fish. Eating more hairtail for children is good for improving intelligence; eating more hairtail for the elderly can delay brain atrophy and prevent Alzheimer's; women eating more hairtail can make the skin smooth and moisturized, long hair and black, and face More beautiful.
The rich magnesium in hairtail also has a good protective effect on the cardiovascular system, which is beneficial to prevent cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and myocardial infarction.

Braised Octopus

1. Wash the hairtail with clean water and remove the head of the hairtail. The dirt and blood clots in the belly of the hairtail must be rinsed with clean water, otherwise the finished product will have a fishy smell and affect the taste;

2. After the processed hairtail fish is cut into suitable size pieces with kitchen scissors, wipe off the water with kitchen paper, add a large spoonful of rice wine, a small handful of Chinese pepper, and a small spoon of ginger powder; stir well, marinate for about 30 minutes, help Take the fish to remove the fishy. The ginger powder I use here can be replaced with ginger;

3. Pick out the pepper from the marinated octopus and wipe off the water on it;

4. Heat the non-stick pan on the fire, pour in some oil and cook until 70% hot, put the marinated octopus pieces in and fry;

5. Fry on both sides until it turns yellow, then take out the drain oil;

6. Pour out the oil for the fried fish, leaving only a little base oil, put a few dried red peppers and fry it, then put the fried octopus in, pour in light soy sauce, high white wine, salt, pour in hot water, and add garlic cloves , Bring to a boil on high heat, cover the pot and turn to medium-low heat to simmer; note that light soy sauce itself is salty, so you should put less salt or don’t put it in. In addition, some light soy sauce is lighter in color and can be replaced with braised soy sauce;

7. The soup is getting less. Open the lid and add two crystal sugars to enhance the freshness and flavor. It can also help to collect the juice. After the soup is thick, it can be out of the pot;

8. Serve on a plate, ready to eat!

9. The fish pieces are complete and not loose.

10. Standard meals!

Tips:
Many people say that hairtail is more fishy. In fact, if you master these points, hairtail may not be fishy at all:
1. Clean it. When washing hairtail, it must be cleaned. There should be no fish blood or internal organs, otherwise it will be fishy.
2. Put rice wine, ginger, and peppercorns when marinating are all ingredients that can help remove the fishy smell. The marinating time should not be too short, generally about 30 minutes;
3. Put some high-level liquor when stewing. I usually put liquor with a temperature of about 60 degrees, which can also help to remove the fishy smell. Don't worry about the smell of alcohol, because the alcohol is volatilized during the high-temperature cooking process, and you can’t eat it. It smells like alcohol
In addition, one more reminder, you must use a non-stick pan when frying the fish, so that the fish pieces are complete and will not fall apart. Like I did, you can make complete hairtail pieces even without flour.