Braised Octopus with Pickled Peppers

Name: Braised Octopus with Pickled Peppers
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 pieces Hairtail; 20g Bubble ginger; 3 cloves garlic; 1 tbsp Soy sauce; 2 pieces shallot; 1 teaspoon Sugar; 20g Soaked chili; 2 tbsp Cooking Wine; 1 tbsp Pixian Doubanjiang; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoons Rice vinegar; 1 piece pepper; 30g Peanut oil

by Heart clear as water and pale as clouds

4.7 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

15m

Serving

2

Pickled pepper octopus is one of my mother’s favorite dishes when I was young. Now my mom doesn’t cook. This pickled octopus rarely appears on my table. Today I suddenly remembered that I hadn’t eaten this flavor for a long time, thinking about it. I was drooling. I hurried out and bought 2 octopus to make it home, but I couldn’t make it taste like my mother. My mother told me that adding vinegar when making fish can also make the rich protein in the fish under the action of sourness. Hydrolysis not only produces many amino acids with umami characteristics, but also softens the bones and spines of the fish and converts them into calcium acetate during the cooking process. Calcium acetate is easily soluble in water, easy for human body to absorb, and improves the utilization rate of calcium.

Braised Octopus with Pickled Peppers

1. A plate of fried hairtail

Braised Octopus with Pickled Peppers recipe

2. Pickled pepper and pickled ginger cut into small pieces

3. Cut the garlic into slices and the shallot into slices

4. Pour vegetable oil into the pot, add a spoonful of Pixian bean paste when the oil is 60% hot, and fry the red oil

5. Add pickled peppers, pickled ginger, green onions, garlic, and peppercorns until fragrant

6. Add appropriate amount of water, simmer for 3 minutes

7. Then pour in the fried octopus, add 2 tablespoons of cooking wine, 1 tablespoon of light soy sauce

8. Add 1 tablespoon of salt and 1 tablespoon of sugar and simmer for 10 minutes

9. Add 2 tablespoons of rice vinegar

10. Pour in the remaining green onions and collect the juice over high heat

Tips:
1. The silver material on the surface of the hairtail can prevent cancer, so don't scrape it off!
2. Pickled octopus should be cooked with refined salt according to the taste;
3. When making braised octopus, it is recommended to fry one, so that the octopus will not be rotten during the cooking process;
4. Putting vinegar on the octopus can remove the fishy smell and increase the fragrance, because the vinegar has the effect of dissolving the fishy trimethylamine oxide and promoting its volatilization and running away.