Octopus ♥

Preparation steps

• ♥ How to clean and prepare, cook octopus to be soft without overcooking and not tough ♥: Tough octopus will not be if you cook it in water that is NOT salted. It is not very demanding, but my friend from work taught me this, originally from the island of Hvar. First, clean the octopus from the dirt of the sand around the tentacles from the body. We do not separate the arms, there are eight of them. Eventually we can pull from the body partially membrane, on the arms and the rest does not matter. Wash under running cold water. We beat her with a wooden mallet, pour out your anger on her hahaha !!) and if she was frozen, my way is proven to be good for me to freeze fresh overnight or buy frozen, it's easier for me than beating her with a mallet (and they say she used to cook with corks - and the plugs are used to pick up the bitterness released by the octopus during cooking) ... it is not necessary to beat then vent your anger by going into the woods or under the bridge as the train passes screaming, believe me helps .. And while larger octopuses are cooked and baked , you can fry or simmer less. Put frozen octopus in hot water ♥ and thawed in cold water, ie more lukewarm than cold water ♥) When cooking, put the octopus in water so that its head is inside and its legs are turned so But I like to freeze the octopus and I rarely get it fresh, so there is no problem because we already buy it frozen or at least freeze it overnight.Do NOT salt the water, and the octopus is cooked, depending on the size, 1-2 hours this isi npr gobotnica of 1.70 dag I cooked 1.15 minutes ,. but a little sugar is added for a nice color..it has some theory and to put a little brandy to soften the octopus meat. Let's check the part of the eyes with a fork because the meat is soft (this can be found in the recipe ♥ Octopus on salad. When cooking octopus, you can add root vegetables, garlic cloves or just herbs, such as peppercorns, bay leaves and lemon slices. The four of us need us about 1.5 kg of octopus or at least 35 dag per person.Depending on the size of the octopus, we also add potatoes to 1.5 kg of octopus up to 1 kg if baked in a roll with potatoes. , 3 cloves of garlic and when they turn yellow, add a little 3/4 kg of peeled tomatoes, when everything thickens in a sauce or a thicker sauce, add 1.5 kg of already cooked octopus, then simmer for about half an hour, drizzling with white wine. acid, 1 dcl of prosecco and 1/2 dcl of water in which the octopus was cooked. Carefully add salt and pepper and let it soak in. end cooked beans skinned skins or a little chickpeas or both chickpeas and beans or just a little boiled peas. (recipe by V. Barbieri from the TV show Tragom izgubljenog vremena). ♥ OCTOPUS SPREAD Cook a larger octopus about 2 kg or two smaller and when it softens cut into pieces as for a salad. Put the meat in a mixer (multipractical robot or whatever you already have) and together with 10 dag capers 5 dried tomatoes, primrose, two leaves of sage and basil, hot pepper and sea salt, 1 tablespoon with 2 tablespoons of bread crumbs and 1 dcl of olive oil, mix ..
• ♥ OCTOPUS UNDER BAKING Defrost, clean and wash the deep-frozen octopus as above in step 1. Put it in a paddle on a gas fire without any water, cover and simmer it dry, turn the octopus occasionally and it quickly releases the purple liquid. We sauté it until the liquid boils and only a purple trace of paint remains at the bottom, turn off the gas and wash the young potatoes of medium size, and if it is bigger, cut it in half without cleaning the skin. If it is young, if it is old, peel it. / 2 kg then add the potatoes in half, if the octopus is about 1.5 kg, then add the whole potato, put it in a pan, add a little salt, add a half-cut onion, and put the octopus with the legs up in the middle, and pour it all together Cover with a baking sheet and place the grill on top of the baking tray and around. Baking takes about 45 minutes. In the paddle where we sautéed the octopus, add a little olive oil and sauté the finely chopped garlic on that purple precipitate. Add the white wine, then pepper and parsley. but not salt because it's actually sea dried octopus.We cook for two minutes, discover the baking sheet, pour over the octopus and potatoes and let the potatoes soak up the delicious sauce for another two to three minutes. It is also used to prepare octopus in the oven at a temperature of 200 ° C. Here is the VIDEO Veljko BARBIJERI how to make an OCTOPUS UNDER THE BAKING ♥ This is how I make it in the second way in a baking tray in the oven: Cook the frozen octopus as already described. Peel a potato, cut it in half in half, cut a smaller onion in half into quarters. Put the potatoes in a suitable pan on cold oil, add a little salt, add a crumb of rosemary .. and the onion on top of the octopus with the arms facing up and DO NOT salt a larger or smaller octopus .. Cover well with aluminum foil and bake without watering because the octopus releases juices and is therefore juicy. and fine almost like an octopus under a baking sheet ... at 220-250 ° C for about 60-80 minutes depending on the size of the octopus. At the end of baking, add wine, add garlic and bake for another fifteen minutes without foil to get a beautiful color. Cut the octopus into pieces and serve with potatoes and roasting juice and sprinkle with parsley. We often baked it in an electric oven, but mine say that there is no big difference from this in the oven, it just swallows more electricity .. This is how an octopus was prepared by my office friend from the island of Hvar who taught me a lot about fish..shells..heads ..but I'm still learning something new.