octopus meat is very delicious and original taste, but perhaps not everyone knows how to cook.That is why I would like to suggest a few recipes to help make the meat soft octopus and incredibly tasty.
How to cook an octopus?
This recipe will help you boil the meat of the octopus.Products:
- bulb;
- carrots;
- salt, bay leaf;
- octopus - 1 bird.
To start the carcass should be rinsed in cold water, then put into a large pot with water and add salt, onion, carrot, and you can throw a bay leaf.Then boil and boil for 8 minutes.Of course the cooking time depends on how big your octopus.When it is ready, it should pull it from the water and allow to cool.Then gently remove skins.Then cooked meat can be used for preparation of various salads, and eat boiled.
If you find that the octopus meat is very tough - it means you are not his boil.In such a case, you should send it for some time into the boiling water.Some experienced chefs before cooking advised to recapture a bit of octopus to the meat certainly get soft.
If you still do not know how to cook octopus, then the following recipe is for you.In addition, you will take only 15 minutes for this dish.
Cooking octopus in Corsican
For this recipe, it is best to use small octopus carcasses.Ingredients:
- dry wine - 220 ml;
- octopus - 460 g;
- ketchup or tomato;
- vegetable oil;
- salt.
Initially octopus should be boiled in salted water for 4 minutes, then put in a hot frying pan and fry in vegetable oil.Then pour a little wine, add salt, chopped tomatoes (or ketchup), and then stew for 9-11 minutes.Now you know exactly how to cook octopus is tasty and fast.Serve with potatoes or salad with fresh vegetables.
Cooking octopus with vegetables
Products:
- garlic;
- shallots - 2-3 pieces;
- octopus - 2 medium carcass;
- celery;
- thyme;
- lettuce;
- carrots;
- olive oil;
- red wine - 270 ml;
- pepper, salt.
The first step is to remove from carcasses the octopus beak and eyes, then rinse with cold water.Now, the carcass should be a little beat off.Then coarsely chop carrots, celery, garlic, shallots and chop the thyme.Vegetables should mix and fry in olive oil, then add pepper, salt.Then lay the carcass of octopus to the vegetables and add a glass of wine.Now, cover and stew for 19 minutes.
While stewed octopus, you must take a side dish.To do this, gently break the lettuce leaves and cut in half the nitty gritty.Then put them on a heated pan, adding the garlic.Then put the finished octopus on a plate, and next fried lettuce.On top sprinkle with oil and garlic.
How to cook the octopus pasta
In this recipe, the number of products is designed to five servings.Ingredients:
- pasta - 0.6 kg;
- octopus - about 1 kg;
- bulb;
- tomatoes - 3-4 pieces;
- wine - 160 g;
- vegetable oil - 1 cup;
- pepper, salt.
first octopus should wash well, then cut into small pieces of it.Now pour in the high vegetable oil pan and put to an octopus.Put everything in the oven for 14 minutes, then add the finely chopped onion.After 12 minutes, pour the wine.When the liquid evaporates, you must add four cups of water.When the water boils, add the pasta, pepper, salt and cook the dish for 14 minutes, stirring constantly.Then add finely chopped tomatoes and cook a little longer until tender.Total cooking process takes less than an hour.Now that you know how to prepare tasty octopus with pasta.It serves hot.Bon Appetit!
