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Octopus braised in olive oil

Name: Octopus braised in olive oil
Total time: 105 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1¾ lb Octopus; 8 tbsp Olive oil; 4 Garlic cloves; 1 Lemon; Bay leaves, three for the pot; Sea salt, to taste

Octopus is either an hour and a half or thirty seconds, and this is the hour and a half — the oil it cooks in becomes the best thing in the dish.

4gnet carbs

29gfat

30gprotein

397kcal

Per serving105 minServes 4

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Ingredients

For the whole dish · serves 4

Octopus1¾ lb
Olive oil8 tbsp
Garlic cloves4
Lemon1
Bay leavesthree for the pot
Sea saltto taste

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Method

6 steps · 105 minutes

Buy it frozen and thawed if you can. Freezing breaks down the muscle and does for free what an hour of tenderizing does badly.
Sit the octopus in a heavy pan that it just fits, with the oil, garlic and bay. Add no water — it releases plenty of its own.
Bring it to the barest simmer, cover, and leave it 90 minutes. It should never boil; boiling tightens octopus and it does not come back.
Test it at 75 minutes by pushing a knife into the thickest part of a tentacle. It should go in with no resistance at all.
Lift it out and cut into thick pieces on the diagonal.
Season, squeeze the lemon over, and spoon the cooking oil on. Strain and keep any oil left — it is worth more than the octopus.

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