Lu Flavours 3rd Spread

Name: Lu Flavours 3rd Spread
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: chilli sauce as dipping sauce; 5 ml (1 tsp) salt (optional); 50 ml (2 fl oz/¼ cup) thick or dark soy sauce (optional); 25 ml (1 fl oz/⅛ cup) thin or light soy sauce (optional); the master stock with the bag of mixed spices and other seasoning solids; 1 cleaned octopus, 1.1–1.35 kilos (2½–3 lb); 30–45 ml (2–3 tbsp) sesame oil

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Classic Food of China

By Yan-Kit So

Published 1992

About

Ingredients

1 cleaned octopus, 1.1–1.35 kilos (2½–3 lb)
the master stock with the bag of mixed spices

Asia
China
Stock
Starter

Method

Heat a large pot of water until only fairly hot. Add the octopus and continue to heat, uncovered, for about 1 minute. Pour into a colander and rinse with cold water. Pull off as much as possible the membrane which covers the body and the tentacles. Using cocktail sticks, remove and discard the chalky eyes in the suckers on the tentacles. Rinse clean and drain.