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Grilled octopus
Also known as χταπόδι · htapodi · pulpo a la parrilla · polpo alla griglia
A tentacle grilled until the edges char, over white bean purée with lemon and oil. Smoky outside, tender through.
Typical serving
340 kcal
usually 270–430 kcal
 Protein | 30 g |
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 Carbs | 19 g |
 Fat | 16 g |
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Before you start
- an hour and a half of simmering before it ever meets the grill
- a griddle pan or barbecue
Ingredients
Serves 2 · dimmer marks are storecupboard
- 400goctopus — frozen and thawed is genuinely better than fresh
- 180gpotatoes
- 2 tbspolive oil
- 1lemon
- 1 tbspwhite vinegar
- 1 tsporegano
- ½red onion
- 1 small handfulparsley
- to tastesalt and pepper
Method
6 steps
simmer · 1h 15m walk awayOctopus into a pot with a bay leaf and no water at all — it gives out plenty of its own — lid on, lowest heat, until a knife goes into the thick end of a tentacle against no resistance. Between forty minutes and an hour and a half, and the only way to know is to keep testing it.
boil · 18m walk awayPotatoes on in salted water while that happens, until they are just tender.
rest · 25m walk awayLeft to cool in its own liquor rather than lifted out. Cooled in the pot it stays soft; drained hot it tightens as it goes cold.
chop · 5mTentacles cut off whole, red onion sliced paper thin, lemon halved, potatoes broken up.
grill · 7mTentacles brushed with a little oil onto a fiercely hot dry griddle until they blister and char at the edges. Two or three minutes a side — they are already cooked, and this is only for the burnt bits.
finish · 4mSliced thick over the potatoes with the rest of the oil, the vinegar, lemon, oregano, onion and parsley.
Worth knowing
Greek harbours still dry octopus on lines in the sun — the tenderising began, in older times, by beating it against the rocks.
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