Kadon Gamson: Recipe
Octopus with coconut cream
Ingredients
- 1 octopus, cut into bite-sized pieces
- ½ onion, chopped
- 1 lemon (squeezed for juice)
- 1 ½ cups coconut milk
- 5-6 cherry tomatoes
- salt, to taste
- 1 cup water
Place all ingredients, except for coconut milk, in a pot. Cook for about 10 to 12 minutes or longer if you want gumson (octopus) tender. Reduce heat, add pumpkin tips and coconut milk, bring to a boil and remove from heat.
by Mae G. Cruz
Editor’s note: This recipe is from Lepblon Fina’tinas Para Guam: Guam Cookbook, 1985. Reprinted with permission from Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo, Y Inetnon Famalao’an* (Women’s Association).
* Y Inetnon Famalao’an was a women’s organization composed of cabinet wives and women executives in the government of Guam.