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Preparation
20 minutes
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Cooking
30 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Octopus dipped in hot tamarind leaves, tangy and spicy, served with fresh, crunchy octopus will be an ideal dish for the upcoming cold days. This dish is not only simple but also extremely delicious, let’s cook together with Điện máy XANH into the kitchen right away!
Ingredients for Tamarind Leaf Dipped Octopus For 4 people
Octopus 500 gr (depending on size) Pineapple 1/2 fruit (ripe) Lemongrass 8 stalks Red onion 5 bulbs Coriander 20 gr Cilantro 10 gr (chopped) Young tamarind leaves 30 gr Chili 3 fruits Fish sauce 2 tablespoons Sugar/salt a little Cooking oil a little
How to choose fresh ingredients
How to choose delicious octopus
- For live octopus: You should choose those with clear eyes, moving quickly and flexibly. Avoid buying those that move slowly and have dull eyes.
- For frozen octopus: You should choose ones that have a natural gray-brown color, not too dark and not too light. In addition, freshly frozen octopus will have bright white meat, smooth skin, and will not be swollen.
How to choose delicious pineapples
- Color: you should choose fruits that are bright yellow from the stem to the tip, there may be a few eyes that are slightly green but it still
- has a certain sweetness.
- Shape: Pineapples that are round and short will have more flesh compared to long ones.
- Pineapple eyes: Choose fruits with large, sparse eyes because this indicates that the pineapple is mature and ripened naturally without being soaked in chemicals.
- Aroma: you can try smelling the end of the fruit, if it has a fragrant smell then you should buy it. Additionally, avoid choosing fruits that have a slightly sour smell like fermentation, as that pineapple is overripe.
- The top of the pineapple: The greener the pineapple top, the fresher the pineapple. Overripe pineapples will have a dry or brown top.
- Touch: A good, fresh pineapple should not be too hard or too soft; when you press your finger into it, it should not feel indented.
How to prepare Octopus dipped in tamarind leaves
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Prepare the octopus
Clean the octopus and soak it for 5 minutes in salt water with a few slices of ginger to eliminate the fishy smell.
After that, rinse the octopus again and cut it into bite-sized pieces.
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Prepare other ingredients
Pineapple peeled, cored, then cut into small pieces. Lemongrass peeled the outer wilted leaves then chopped small.
Shallots peeled, sliced. Cilantro chopped into small pieces.
Grate the tamarind leaves into a bowl and wash them clean, then crush the leaves to extract the sour juice.
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Cook the broth
Place a pot on the stove with a little cooking oil, when the oil is hot, add the shallots and lemongrass and sauté until fragrant. Then, add the pineapple and tamarind leaves and continue to stir-fry.
When the tamarind leaves change color, pour in a little water to cover the ingredients. Cook this mixture until it boils, then season with 2 tablespoons of fish sauce, a little sugar, and seasoning powder to taste.
Finally, add the octopus, chili, and cilantro, then stir well until the octopus is cooked, and it’s done.
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Final product
The dish of octopus dipped in tamarind leaves is hot, appealing, with each piece of fresh, crunchy octopus served with fragrant, sweet and sour tamarind sauce, slightly spicy and very delicious.
With the shared recipe above, Điện máy XANH hopes you can successfully make this delicious octopus dipped in tamarind leaves!
*Reference source for the recipe and images shared from Facebook page Phan Tuyền
