How To Cook Octopus Galician Style
Instructions cut the head off the octopus at its base.
How to cook octopus galician style. Place the octopus slices on a large plate and season to taste with fleur de sel sweet and. Boil a large pot of water over high heat. Cooking octopus might seem intimidating to the under confident chef but it isn t as complicated as you might think.
Galician octopus pulpo a la gallega prepare the galician octopus. 4 your galician. Add to the saucepan.
At this point cooking the octopus. Grab the octopus by the head and dip 3 times in the boiling water. To keep the skin on the octopus while you cook it it s a good idea to shock it first by dipping it a few times in.
By trapping steam and raising the pressure inside the cooker and therefore raising the boiling point of the water as well you can cook octopus much more quickly than at a standard sea level boil of 212 f 100 c. Cook until tender this usually takes about 1 hour for a 1 to 2 pound octopus. Discard it or use it for something else if you can find a use for it.
In a large dutch oven bring to boil plenty of water with the peeled onion and bay leaves. It is known as polpo in italy pulpo in spain and oktapodi in greece the spanish consume the most octopus in europe but their consumption still falls far behind the japanese who are partial to tako eaten as sushi sashimi tako sunomono salad or the famous street food. Once they cooked cut them into.
Remove the octopus from the freezer and place it directly in the boiling water. How to make galician octopus 1 after you have already softened and boiled the octopus you can go ahead and cut the tentacles in small slices 2 place them in a wood plate you can also use a normal one 3 season the octopus slices with olive oil salt and sweet and hot paprika. Check the potatoes as well and remove when tender.