Sunday 22 February 2015

Octopus with potatoes in red wine sauce

I Ingredients

1 octopus (1 -1.5 kg)

2 cups white wine

1/2 tsp of black pepper corns

2 bay leaves

3-4 potatoes

2cloves of garlic

2 medium onions

2 fresh tomatoes or 1 tin tomato ready

1 tablespoon tomato paste 

2/3 cup of olive oil water

Salt

Cayenne pepper

Execution:

Wash well the octopus, clean and put in a small saucepan with 1 cup wine 2 bay leaves, boil for 25-30 minutes on low heat 

When ready, remove the octopus to cut relatively large pieces, throw the bay leaves and keep the broth.
Place the pieces of octopus, oil, salt, pepper, the second glass of wine, the broth of octopus, tomatoes paste, onions cut into thick slices, potatoes into thick slices and mix with hands to homogenize materials.Close the lid an cook until tender and sauce has thicken.   
To make  crispy potatoes: Mix them with some oil and bake them alone for 10 minutes, before adding to the pot. Conveniently just quick fryin olive oil before placing in pot. 











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