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Italian-Style Grilled Octopus
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By á-31592
Note: Once you have your cooked, tender octopus, you need to let it rest and come to room temperature, and you can ...
- 3 pounds cleaned octopus
- 1 cup dry white wine
- 1/4 cup whole peppercorns
- 2 lemons, plus additional lemon wedges for serving
- 1 wine cork
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil divided
Octopus - Boiled and Charred
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By á-31592
How to Prepare and Cook Octopus
- Ingredients:
- Get Your Octopus
- us at all, try calling your local fish market — even if they don’t stock it regularly, they may be able order it for you.
- Prep Your Octopus
- e accordingly.
- Cook Your Octopus
- to have to do is heat up a pot of water, put your octopus in it, and wait.
- 26 26 Corner Taverna Grilled or Broiled Octopus
- (From Queens: A Culinary Passport, adapted from Frideriki Bletsas)
- 1 1 to 5-pound) to 5-pound) octopus, cleaned
- 4 to 5 4 to 5 5 garlic cloves
- 2 2 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 1 1 lemon, halved
- 3 1/2 3 1/2 1/2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 2 2 large tomatoes, sliced
- 2 2 2 large cucumbers, peeled (optional) and sliced
- 1/2 1/2 1/2 tablespoon red wine vinegar, as needed
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, as needed
Octopus Stew (Polvo Guisado) the right one
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By es123
"Purple stew" is what someone called this when they inquired about an octopus recipe popular with the Portuguese
- Day 1
- 2 1/2 pounds octopus fresh or thawed eyes and mouth (hard center beak) removed
- 1 cup white or red wine
- 1 tbsp coarse salt or to taste
- 1/2 tsp ground white or black pepper or to taste
- 4 to 5 tbsp crushed red pepper paste (pimenta moida)
- 2 bay leaves
- Day 2
- 1/2 cup or olive oil as needed
- 2 medium onions, coarsely chopped
- 2 heads garlic, thinly sliced or coarsely chopped
- big handful of flat leaf parsley, chopped
- 4 medium potatoes, peeled, cut in 1 1/2-inch pieces
- cornstarch slurry(1 tbsp cornstarch with 2 tbsp water)
Octopus Salad with Potatoes and Green Beans
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By bns0607
When octopus is slowly simmered, it becomes delicate and tender
- 1 onion, halved
- 1 carrot, chopped
- 1 celery rib, chopped
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 1/2 pounds octopus tentacles, separated
- 1/2 pound green beans, cut into 1 1/2-inch lengths
- 1 1/2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
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