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Claypot rice with octopus and edamame

A recipe with Rice & grain, Seafood, Vegetable by Connie Veneracion | July 24, 2023 (Updated: April 21, 2025)
Diced fully cooked octopus, shelled edamame, rice and seasonings cooked in a donabe (Japanese claypot).
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Claypot rice with octopus and edamame
Prep Time 10 minutes minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes minutes
Total Time 25 minutes minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine Asian
Servings 1 person

Connie’s Notes

We had been planning on reshooting the takoyaki recipe so I bought a tray of fully cooked octopus from my seafood purveyor. There’s been no chance to make a batch of takoyaki yet but, meanwhile, there was dinner to prepare for my older daughter, Sam, who eats no red meat. She’s still recovering from a flu-like infection (she tested negative for COVID, thank goodness) and, well, I’m a mom who wanted to pamper her daughter. So, this became her dinner.
And what’s so special about this dish minus the mommy-loves-Sam part? Okay, octopus is tricky to cook. Undercook it and it’s tough. Overcook it and it’s tough. There’s a sweet spot that I haven’t discovered yet mostly because I have not had much experience cooking octopus. So, I stay with portions that are already fully cooked and only require reheating.
If you don’t own a claypot, you can make the dish in a regular pan.

Ingredients

  • ½ cup rice - any rice variety should work except glutinous rice
  • 1 ¼ cups fish broth / stock - homemade or store bought
  • fish sauce - if your broth is underseasoned
  • 1 cup diced fully cooked octopus
  • 2 tablespoons Japanese soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • ½ teaspoon grated ginger
  • ⅓ to ½ cup shelled edamame
  • toasted sesame seeds - to garnish
  • thinly sliced scallions - to garnish
  • sesame seed oil - to garnish

Instructions
 

  1. Rinse the rice several times, drain and dump into the claypot.
  2. Pour in three-quarters cup of broth (and fish sauce, if needed) and bring to the boil.
  3. Cover the pot, turn off the heat and leave until the broth has been absorbed by the rice grains.
  4. (Note: Cooking a dish like this traditionally requires soaking the rice for a few hours before cooking. The first three steps do away with the presoaking)
  5. Place the octopus in a bowl, add the soy sauce, lemon juice, sugar and ginger, and toss well.
  6. When the rice has soaked up the liquid, arrange the octopus pieces on one side and the edamame on the other side. Drizzle in any leftover soy sauce mixture.
  7. With the heat set to medium, drizzle in another quarter cup of broth along the edges of the rice.
  8. Cover the pot, cook for five minutes, then, take a grain of rice and test for doneness. If the rice needs to cook longer (aged rice needs more liquid), drizzle in the remaining broth and cook for another five minutes.
  9. By the time the rice is done, the octopus and edamame should be fully heated. Just sprinkle in some toasted sesame seeds and scallions, drizzle in a bit of sesame seed oil and serve.
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