Stewed Octopus with Macaroni

Name: Stewed Octopus with Macaroni
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Ingredients: 1 kilogram octopus, thawed if frozen.; 1 cup red wine.; 1 garlic clove, minced.; 1 medium brown onion, chopped fine.; 1 bay leaf.; ½ a cinnamon stick.; 2 cans of chopped tomatoes.; ¼ cup olive oil.; 600 grams elbow macaroni, semi cooked.; A good knob of butter.

SpotX Wild Foods Recipe from John Eichelsheim
Prep:15 minutes Cook:30 minutes Difficulty:2

Ingrediants:

1 kilogram octopus, thawed if frozen.
1 cup red wine.
1 garlic clove, minced.
1 medium brown onion, chopped fine.
1 bay leaf.
½ a cinnamon stick.
2 cans of chopped tomatoes.
¼ cup olive oil.
600 grams elbow macaroni, semi cooked.
A good knob of butter.

Directions:

Clean the octopus thoroughly to get rid of any ink and slime.
Make sure you remove the ink sac in the head.
Cut away the bird-like beak, then rinse occy under cold, running water.
Place in a pot, dripping wet – this is the moisture it will cook in.
Add the red wine, garlic, onion, bay leaf and cinnamon. Cover the pot.
Bring to the boil over low heat until pierced easily with a fork.
Remove the octopus and let it cool enough to handle. Retain liquid.
Cut into bite-size pieces.
Add tomatoes and olive oil to liquid in the pot.
Simmer for 8-10 minutes to thicken slightly.
Stir in the cut octopus and nearly-cooked macaroni.
Simmer until macaroni is al dente.
If it looks too dry, add a little pasta water.
Stir in butter.
Remove bay leaf and cinnamon stick.
Season well with salt and pepper.

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Octopus
Octopus Octopus is not an uncommon catch for recreational anglers.
Octopus is seldom kept, however, and even less often cooked and eaten. But octopus is delicious eating – in many people’s opinion at least as good as squid. If you intend to keep an octopus for the table, kill it quickly and humanely. One method is to ‘turn it inside-out’, which involves doing exactly what the description says, but this does take a little practice as it can be tricky.
Polynesian people bite an octopus between the eyes, which kills it. You can achieve the same result by pushing a knife into the animal’s brain between the eyes. A dead octopus, like all seafood, should be iced down immediately. It keeps well frozen whole.
There are many good recipes for octopus, which is particularly popular as food in the Mediterranean and the Pacific. The recipes that follow reflect this.