Italian Octopus

Name: Italian Octopus
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 75 min
Total time: 90 min
Ingredients: 500 grams octopus pieces.; 4 tablespoons olive oil.; 4 cloves finely-chopped garlic.; 1 cup crushed tomatoes.; 1 cup white wine.; 2 tablespoons honey or sugar.; 2 tablespoons chopped, fresh dill.; 4 tablespoons chopped, fresh parsley.; 1 teaspoon chilli flakes.; Salt and pepper.

SpotX Wild Foods Recipe from Alfredo Lovell
Prep:15 minutes Cook:75 minutes Difficulty:1

Ingrediants:

500 grams octopus pieces.
4 tablespoons olive oil.
4 cloves finely-chopped garlic.
1 cup crushed tomatoes.
1 cup white wine.
2 tablespoons honey or sugar.
2 tablespoons chopped, fresh dill.
4 tablespoons chopped, fresh parsley.
1 teaspoon chilli flakes.
Salt and pepper.

Directions:

Bring a large pot of salty water to a boil.
Toss the octopus into the boiling water; return to a boil.
Cook for 1-2 minutes, then remove. Discard water.
Sauté octopus in olive oil over medium-high heat for 2-3 minutes.
Add the chopped garlic and sauté for another 1-2 minutes.
Add the wine and bring to a boil over high heat.
Stir well and let it cook down for 3-4 minutes.
Add the tomatoes and chilli flakes and bring to a simmer.
Add about a teaspoon of salt and the honey or sugar.
Mix well, cover the pot and simmer for 30 minutes.
At 30 minutes, add ½ the dill and ½ the parsley.
Check the octopus. Sometimes small ones will be tender in 30 minutes.
If not yet tender, cover the pot again and simmer for up to 45 minutes.
Ten minutes before being done, uncover the pot and turn the heat up.
Reduce the liquid to a sauce.
To serve, add the remaining dill, parsley and black pepper.
Eat this with pasta or bread, either hot or at room temperature.

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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.