Héctor Jorge García leaves this recipe for octopus with chimichurri!, which, in accordance with him, is doing very effectively in Australia (do not ask me). We did not attempt it, nevertheless it appears to be like good. The following time we have now a type of little animals readily available, he’ll go half Galician and half Hector’s approach. With out additional introduction, the story of the writer of the recipe:
I’ve lived in Australia since 1980. Right here individuals actually like chimichurri to combine with meats. Additionally, even when they do not imagine it, they prefer it a lot that they put together it and eat it with bread!! Sooner or later I attempted placing chimi on octopus and gave the recipe to a restaurant specializing in fish and seafood. From that day on the dish was known as “Hector Octopus”.
Right here is the recipe, it could not be easier.
For one massive octopus and one medium or two massive ones.
If the octopus is frozen, put it within the pool and alter the water a number of occasions. This manner it’s not solely defrosted, but in addition cleaned. Take out the beak(?) together with your finger (push the beak out by way of the middle of the legs together with your finger).
Put the octopus(es) in a big saucepan and canopy them with chilly water. Add a big onion, bay leaves and several other corks. Put it on the warmth and when it begins to boil, cook dinner it over low warmth (at all times boiling) for 45 minutes.
Whereas that is occurring, put together:
A big handful of parsley and 10 cloves of garlic. Chop quite a bit and add a stage teaspoon of floor chili flakes (sizzling chilli flakes) and loads of high quality salt. Add to this a cup of olive oil, a cup of white vinegar and a cup of beforehand boiled and cooled water.
Depart the octopus within the water with out the lid and take away it earlier than it cools. Clear it with rubber gloves (to keep away from burning your self)
of the gelatinous coating with out attempting to take away all of it, as a result of in any other case the suction cups will come off. Don’t fret about what’s left in every tentacle as a result of it is boiled.
Take off all of the tentacles and minimize each into items about one and a half centimeters or so, discarding the skinny ends. Put these and the preparation (watery chimichurri) in a container with an hermetic lid within the fridge and transfer the preparation the other way up every now and then in order that it mixes effectively.
Though it may be eaten now, it’s higher to go away it for a number of hours to marinate it effectively.
This factor about corks is written in each Spanish guide about octopus preparations. In case of flies, I at all times put two or three corks within the water. Possibly it is so the octopus does not get rubbery. With 45 minutes of boiling, the end result was at all times on level. Get pleasure from it.
