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Octopus and Lotus Root Soup
Preparation info
- Difficulty
Easy
Appears in
By David Sly and Cheong Liew
Published 2025
This is a soup recipe Cheong picked up from his mum, combining dried octopus added to a pork bone stock with Chinese mushroom, dried oysters and red dates. ‘I joke that it’s got a surf and turf broth. My mum would make it even more exotic by sometimes adding lily bulbs and black moss (a freshwater lake algae).’
Method
Cheong warns that you can’t use fresh octopus in a soup because the flavour is far too strong – and you can only add dried octopus after it has been soaked in water to reconstitute the flesh, before adding it to the broth for the final 20 minutes of cooking over a gentle flame. Continue simmering the murky broth, which retains an inc