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Cook frozen small octopuses for 5 minutes – put frozen octopuses in salted boiling water, wait for boiling and after the octopuses are cooked (in 5 minutes), cool slightly in a colander and immediately serve in salads or start a compound dish.
In order to boil a medium-sized fresh octopus (2-3 kg), you need 20-25 minutes over low heat under a lid.
Cook large octopuses for 1 hour.
How to cook frozen octopuses
Put the water on high heat, add salt and spices, you can pour in a little oil. There should be enough water so that it slightly covers the octopuses.
While the water is boiling, open the octopuses and inspect: if they are all the same size and clean, then you can cook directly without defrosting. And if with impurities, then it is better to defrost and rinse.
When the water boils, pour the octopuses into the water, wait for the water to boil and cook for 5 minutes.
How to cook fresh octopuses
1. Before boiling octopuses should be cleaned – remove the contents of the head, eyes and beak, and then rinse under running water.
2. Boil octopuses in a saucepan over medium heat, covered.
3. Octopuses can be boiled in their own juice – in order to boil octopuses like this, you should gradually add water only if necessary.
4. Large octopuses are beaten before cooking.
5. Salt the octopuses at the end of cooking.
How to cook octopus with beans
Products
Octopus – 2 kilograms
Dry beans – 1 cup
Onions – 5 onions
Carrots – 3 pieces of medium size
Garlic – 5 cloves
Pork lard – 2 tablespoons
Olive oil – 7 tablespoons
Beans soaking water – 3 cups
Octopus boiling water – 2,5 liters
Bean boiling water – 4 cups
Stewing water – 100 grams
Salt and pepper to taste
Parsley greens – 1 bunch
Preparation
1. Pour beans into a bowl, pour warm boiled water and leave for 6 hours at room temperature.
2. Peel and wash fresh octopus; defrost frozen, peel and wash.
3. Pour 2,5 liters of water into a saucepan, boil it and put the purified octopus fillet in boiling water.
4. Cook the octopus for 20 minutes over low heat with one peeled onion and one tablespoon of olive oil, no salt, with the lid covered.
5. Remove the soaked beans from the bowl, pour into a saucepan and cook in unsalted water for 50 minutes, then drain to prevent the beans from swelling.
6. Remove the cooked octopus and cut into small slices.
7. Peel and finely chop 4 onions and 5 garlic cloves separately.
8. Peel XNUMX carrots and cut into slices.
9. Rinse, dry and finely chop the herbs.
10. Peel and chop the garlic.
11. Peel the onion and cut into rings.
12. Put 2 tablespoons of lard in a medium-sized saucepan, melt it, add 6 tablespoons of olive oil.
13. Put the garlic in a saucepan and simmer for 3 minutes.
14. Add onions, carrots, salt, pepper and simmer until the onions are golden brown.
15. Add chopped octopus and cooked beans.
16. Add 100 ml of water, salt and pepper.
17. Simmer the octopus with beans over low heat for 15 minutes.
Remove two tablespoons of beans from the cooking dish, mash them with a fork and put back. Stir and simmer for 7 minutes to thicken the mixture. Serve the cooked octopus with beans in a deep bowl, sprinkle with chopped parsley on top.
Boiled octopus salad
Products
Octopus – 200 grams
Lettuce leaves – 150 grams
Chicken fillet – 150 grams
Carrots – 1 medium carrot
Celery – 100 grams
Green onions – 30 grams
Olive oil, black pepper, bay leaf, garlic to taste.
Preparation
Add black pepper, bay leaf, garlic, octopuses to a saucepan with boiling salted water. Boil the octopus, chop.
In another saucepan, boil the chicken fillet with carrots, chop the chicken.
Wash the salad, dry it, put it on a dish. Chop the green onion. Chop celery, mix with octopus and chicken, season with olive oil, salt.