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Octopus Maeun Tang
🇰🇷 Korean

Octopus Maeun Tang

🇰🇷 Korean

Fiery, clear-hot stew with octopus and radish — maeun tang for the brave. 47 minutes of mostly hands-off cooking.

Prep 15 min Cook 32 min Serves 4 Medium

Ingredients

  • Saltto taste
  • Garlic2, chopped
  • Ginger4 cloves, minced
  • Potato3 medium, cubed
  • Carrot2, thickly sliced
  • Sesame Oil2 tbsp
  • Stock or Broth750 ml
  • Octopus400 g
  • Daikon Radish200 g
  • Gochugaru1 tsp
  • Gochujang1 tbsp

Optional extras

  • Perilla Leaveshandful, to finish

Instructions

  1. 1

    Warm the Sesame Oil in a heavy casserole and brown the octopus well on all sides — real colour means real flavour.

  2. 2

    Lift the octopus out, soften the garlic and ginger in the same pot, then add the gochugaru.

  3. 3

    Return the octopus, tip in the potato and carrot, and pour over the stock.

  4. 4

    Cover and let it murmur gently for 35-40 minutes until everything is spoon-tender and the broth has body.

  5. 5

    Season with salt and cracked pepper, then shower with perilla leaves right before serving.

Chef's tip

For deeper flavour, toast the gochugaru in the oil before adding anything wet.

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Watch how it's made

Video: Soju, Live Octopus & Maeuntang *Ultimate Combo!* · on YouTube