Stewed Octopus in Spicy Tauco or Fermented Soy Bean Sauce with Chili, Tomato and Coconut Milk (Resep Gurita Bumbu Tauco Pedas Bersantan) is featured in Indonesian Food Blogger Challenge Tulis Resepmu Bersama Nakami Housewares dan Lazada. This event is a presented by Indonesian Food Blogger, Nakami Houseware and Lazada.co.id. So it’s actually double bet since the dried baby octopus that i using in this recipe is another challenge from my dentistry colleague; weather i can make a delicious and plateable dish with dried and salted baby octopus that she purchased during her vacation in Surabaya, West Java. So wish me luck with this challange competition!

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Back to the octopus business, octopus is slow cooked until tender in a spicy curry-like seasoning with tauco or fermented soybean with creamy coconut milk. The savoury, salty and ocean flavour octopus is slowly boiled in creamy, rich, hot and spicy seasoning, then fresh tomatoes that added released some pleasant tangy flavur into the pot. Cubed chayote also added to melt down the heat from the chilies and balance it with it’s natural sweetness.

I love octopus for it’s texture and flavour. Braised Octopus with Spicy Chily Sauce is previously featured on Dentist Chef blog. But actually you can use octopus mamy-many ways; grilled, soup, salad, stew, you name it. The same technique it applied before you enjoy octopus; slow cooking. before the squid is thinly sliced in salad, it’s used to be boiled about 45 minutes in seasoned water to tenderize the meat first. Simply insert some fork to know then tenderness of the octopus meat, i like it tender but with a little resistence when i chew it.

Gurita Bumbu Tauco Pedas Bersantan is one of signature dish of my grandma, even my grandma also used to using dried whole squid for this recipe. I remember that once i was a kid mygrandma cooked Cumi Asin Tauco or salted squid tauco and it made my gum and my mouth turn into black right after i finished my lucnh, then once i was going out with my friends; they start to laught when i talking and smiling then i realized someting wrong within my appearance, well, that embarassing moment didn’t made me hate or even traumatize eating squid ink, infack i made Squin Ink Sauce pasta and Squid Ink Risotto, just simly brush my teeth before smiling to my patients, lol

Tauco or Taucho, Tauchu, or Douji is a fermented soybean paste that very popular condiment in Indonesia. Tauco usually added in Peranakan or Chinese Indonesian Cuisine, Sundanese and also Javanese cuisine. Tauco is made by fermenting the boiled soybean with salted water in a large clay container that is sun-dried for several weeks to further the fermentation process until the color turned to yellow-reddish. Tauco got a savoury flavour and aromas, very good for stir frying seafood or vegetables, If you can fund any tauco, you can use miso or japanese soybean paste to replace it.

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Dried Octopus, lil Davy Jones

This is dried and salted octopus. The fresh small size octopus is cleaned and the internal ink sack inside the head removed, the entire octopus then salted within hours (probably overnight) then sun dried untill loss almost 80 percent of the moisture. In indonesia we called dried and salted octopus as gurita asin that literary translated as salted octopus. The market price of dried and salted octopus here in Indoesian is around 20- 30 USD for a kilo due to the excessive weight loss from the fresh octopus. Y0u probably find dried octopus in Asian market or chinese groceries, don’t hesitate to smell and touch the dried octopus. The good quality dried octopus got a ocean smells without any hint of funny chemical smells. Some white salt crystal is a good sign of dried seafood product, but don’t purchase anything with mold or slime on the surface.

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Dried and Salted Dried Octopus, Delicious Ugly Looking Creatures

What do you thing when you looking of my dried octopus??? mine was Davi Jones from The Pirates of the Carribbean. Bizzare looking dried octopus is actually a delicacy in Asian kitchen. You can use dried octopus for making Superior Soup Stock Recipe, Rice Claypot Recipe or even Asian Rice Congee. Dried octopus can be turn into delciousdish if you cooked it right.

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The Dried Octopus Soaked Overnight in Refrigerator to Soften a Little Bit

How to cook the dried octopus, well first think you should do is rehydrate the dried octopus by soaking it in cold tab water for about 2 hours prior to cooking, but i prefer to soaked my dried octopus in the fridge overnight. The dried rehydrated octopus should be seems double it’s original size once you drain it. You can rubbed the skin alittle bit to remove any remaining excess salt crystal on it.

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Deep Fried Octopus, Ready for Stew

The rehydrated octopus is usually deep fried or pan fried until slighly charred before added to stew or braised dish, but this is unnecessary steps if tyou want to make soup using dried octopus. The deep fried octopus is actually ready to eat, but it’s still slighly chewy and tough, so it need to be prolonged cooked slowly to tenderize the meat. Yupp, octopus is very unique seafood, not like fish, prawn or squid, prolonged cooking process made octopus meat tender even more by the additional period.

(Resep Gurita Bumbu Tauco Pedas)

Recipe Stewed Octopus with Spicy Tauco or Fermented Soybean with Chilies, Chayote and Coconut Milk:

Ingredient:

500 grams dried octopus (or 750 grams fresh octopus)
3 ripe tomatoes,cubed
30 gr bird eyechili, finely chopped
2 tbsp tauco/ fermented soybean paste
1 tbs of rock sugar
2 tbs of premium light soy sauce
6 cloves garlic, chopped
12 red shallots, chopped
5 cm ginger, chopped
1-2 slice of galagal, bruised
1 1/2-2 cups coconut milk
2 cups water (or more)
vegetable milk for stif frying and deep frying
1 kaffir lime leaves
1/2 tsp Andaliman pepper #optional
2 cubes of cubed chayote #optional

Garnish: spring onion, julienned, soaked in ice water until it become to curl.

Marinade : 2 tbsp lemon juice or kaffir lime juice

How to Make Stewed Octopus with Spicy Tauco or Fermented Soybean with Chilies, Chayote and Coconut Milk:

Soak the dried octopus in cold water overnight in the fridge, drain and discard the soaking water
Marinade the octopus with kafffir lime juice for about 5 miutes, drain
Deep fried the rehydrated dry squid until slighly crisp for a couple of minutes, drain
You can skil the process above iy you using fresh octopus that cleaned and cut into bite size
Remove the oil and het the remaining 2 tbsp excess oil for stir frying the seasoning
Saute ginger, shallots, garlic, galagal, and chilies until fragrance and slighly charred.
Add the tauco and kaffir lime leaves and stir fry another 2 minutes
Add the octopus, chayote, and tomato
Pour the water and coconut milk, season it with salt, sugar and pepper
bring the octopus seasing to boil and reduce the heat into simmer, cover the lid and let it slowly cooked until tender for about 30-45 minutes depending on the size of your octopus
Serve the stewed octopus with spicy tauco ot fermented bean sauce with the garnish