Octopuss with rice – Algarve Style
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Ingredients:
- 1.5 kg of Octopus
- 0.5 kg of Rice
- 0.5 kg of Tomatoes
- 1 green pepper
- 0.5 dl of oil
- 1 Onion
- 4 garlics
- 1 twig of parsley
- Thyme
- Salt, pepper
- White Wineq.b.
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Procedure:
Clean and wash the octopus, then, chop it in regular size pieces. Chop the onion and the garlics in small pieces. Heat up tue oil on a stewpot, once on temperature, add the onion and garlic and let it cooked. Then, we add the thyme, parsley, tomatoes and the geen pepper, we let it boil steadily. Add some water, salt and pepper to the octopus as you like. Whan the octopus is almost cooked, add the rice, the white wine, a little bit more water if necessary, end some chopped parsley. Once the rice is cooked, serve it. |
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| Lagareiro Octopus |
Ingredients:
- 1.5 kg of Octopus
- 1 Onion
- 2 leafs of laurel
- 6 garlics
- ½ red pepper
- 1/2 yellow pepper
- ½ green pepper
- 1 kg of small potatores
- 1 twig of parsley
- 1 spoon of winegar
- Salt
- Black pepper in grains
- Oil
- Vinegar
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Procedure:
We cooked the octopuss in a pressure stewpot with the whole onion, a leaf of laurel, salt and pepper, aout 30 minutes. After that, put all of it on a clay recipient.
Peel off the garlics, cut the peppers in wide wavers, put the potatoes and remaining ingredients on the recipient. Add some parsley, a little bit of oil and one spoon of winegar, and put in on the oven at 200º C. for about 40 minutes. If you want it even more delicious, put 150 g. of beicon (sliced nugget-size) around the octopus before putting it on the oven.
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Octopus BBQ
Ingredients:
- 1.5 kg of Octopus
- 12 potatoes
- 2 dl of oil
- 3 garlics
- 1 onion
- 1 twig of parsley
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Procedure:
Clean and wash the octopus an put in over the BBQ. As the octopus is being cooked, cut tue garlic, parsley and onion in small pieces and add them with the oil to make a sauce. Boil the potatoes (it can be also cooked on the BBQ)
Once the octopus is cooked, put it on a tray with the potatoes arround it, and add the sauce. |
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| Octopus on Stick |
Ingredients:
- 2 kg of Octopus
- 1 green pepper
- 1 red pepper
- 1 Onion
- 4 Carrots
- 400 of broccoli
- 400 g of lettuce
- 2 l of Water
- 2 garlics
- 1 twig of parsley
- 1 dl of oil
- 2 spoons of lemon juice
- Water q.b., salt q.b.
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Procedure:
Cook the octopus in a pressure stewpot for about 30 minutes. Take it out and let it cool. Cut the brown peppers and the onions in square.like pieces and put them on a stick, alongside with the octopus, onions and peppers in intervals. Add salt and pepper as you please. Cut the carrots in rings and boil it on water with a little bit of salt and pepper. Then, add the lettuce and finally the broccoli. Take them out and put in another recipient.
We cook the stick slowly and serve it with the vegetables. Add sauce to it. |
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| Octopus Salad |
Ingredients:
- 1.5 kg of Octopus
- 2 Onions
- 1 leaf of laurel.
- 1 Red pepper
- 1 can of beans
- 1dl of oil
- 1 spoon of vinegar (for soups)
- 1 twig of parsley
- 1 dl of White Wine
- Pepper q.b.
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Procedure:
Cook the octopus in a pressure stewpot for about 30 minutes, on water with salt, an onion and a leaf of laurel. Boil the pepper, peelm it off and cut it on wafes. Cut the octopus in small pieces, cut another onion in halves, mix everything with the beans and add salt and pepper as you please.
Finish off with oil and winegar, and use the parsley to decorate.
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| Octopus Cooked |
Ingredients:
- 1.5 kg of Octopus (Big Size)
- 250 g of chive
- 300 g og tender pumpkin
- 350 g de pasta (elbow-type)
- 350 g of peas
- 1 mayonaisse
- Salt
- Pepper
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Procedure:
Boil the octopus in water with salt and a leaf of laurel.
Take back the octopus and let the water boil. Cut the chive on ring-shapes and the tender pumpkin on square-shapes, cooked the pasta in the same water you use for the octopus. Add the peas, the tender pumpkin and the chive as they mix with the mass.
Cut the octopus. Drain off the pasta alongside with the vegetables and add it to the octopus. Serve it with mayonaisse.
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| Octopus to the oven with potato-sweet |
Ingredients:
- 1.5 kg of Octopus (Big Size)
- Salt and pepper q.b.
- 1.5 kg of sweet potatoes
- 1 Onion (Big)
- 2 garlics
- 600 g of tomatoes
- 1 leaf of laurel
- 2 dl of White Wine
- 1dl of oil
- 1 twig of parsley
- Paprika
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Procedure:
Wash the octopus, take out it’s head and put away the tentacles.
Put the octopus in a tray, add the potatoes (previously washed and cut in rings), the onion, the garlic and the chopped tomatoes, the leaf of laurel, the paptrika, and the white wine. Put some oil on it and put salt as you please.
Take all into the oven on 170º C at least for an our and serve inmediately.
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Fried Octopus |
Ingredients:
- 2 kg of Octopus (Small)
- 4 carrots
- 1 cuccumber
- 1 eggplant
- 2 l of water
- 1 dl of oil
- 2 spoons of high grade lemon juice (for soup)
- 1 wild marjoram
- 3 eggs
- Water
- Salt, pepper
- Parsley
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Procedure:
Wash the octopus and boil it on a pressure pot for about 30 minutes. Take it out and let it cool, take off the tentacles of the head.
Cut the carrots, the cuccumber and the eggplant on wafes and cooked them on boiling water for about 2 minutes. Take it out and let it cool. Put the oil, lemon juice, parsley, salt and pepper in a cuenco and get some sauce.
Put the scrambled eggs and the flour on the octopus and fried it on a frying pan. Scout off with absorbing paper and serve with cooked vegetables, and bathe it with sauce. Use the parsley to decorate.
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| Gallegan Octopus |
Ingredients:
- A single 1,5 kg octopus
- 2 leafs of laurel
- 3 garlics
- 1 spoon of chili (or sweet) pepper
- 3-4 spoons of olive oil
- 1 big spoon of fat salt
- Salt
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Procedure:
Wash the octopus. Boil 2,5l of water In a big pot, add the laurel, salt and garlic and let boiling. Then put the octopus and let boiling over 30 minutes. Take ir out and drain off, cut the octopus in pieces (with scissors if possible) and put on a wood round-board and add the oil, chilli and fat salt to dress, then serve. The octopus can be served with rounded boiled potatos. |
