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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook octopus stidafo with olives by akis using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Octopus stidafo with olives by Akis:
- Make ready 1 kg octopus
- Get 15 baby shallot onions, peeled
- Prepare 5 cloves garlic
- Make ready 350 g black olives
- Make ready 2-3 bay leaves
- Prepare 2-3 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- Take pepper
- Make ready 1 little bukovo (hot paprika flakes)
- Get olive oil
Fresh and healthy grilled seafood salad octopus, squid and shrimp, tomatoes and rice chips in a purple plate on a wooden. Flat lay of Cyprus fish and seafood meze with olives, lemon and Greek salad. Octopus skin is covered by three types of specialized skin cells that can quickly change their color, reflectivity, and opacity, allowing this invertebrate to easily blend in with its surroundings. "Chromatophores" are responsible for the colors red, orange, yellow, brown, and black. The octopus (plural octopuses) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (/ɒkˈtɒpədə/, ok-TO-pə-də).
Steps to make Octopus stidafo with olives by Akis:
- Remove the pits of the olives and cut them into 2-3 pieces each.
- Clean the octopus well under running water and rub the suckers well because this is where sand usually accumulates. Cut the tentacles into pieces of 2 cm each and set them aside until you need them.
- Sauté the onions in 2 tbsp of olive oil in a pot over strong heat together with the garlic and the octopus until the onions get golden brown.
- Stir in the balsamic vinegar, add the olives the bay leaves, the boukovo and the pepper, close the lid and simmer for 35-40 minutes. or until the octupus is cooked.
- At the last 10 minutes of cooking check if your octopus has let out a lot of liquids. If yes, remove the lid from the pot until the extra liquids evaporate and the octopus is left only with its sauce.
My husband bought Baby Octopus on a whim and I couldn't find a recipe that I wanted to try. So, we tried sauteing them in garlic and herbs. They turned out really good, first time cooking the little suckers, so my technique might be weird. Also, next time I might try using white wine. The Octopus only lives in oceans due to their need for saltwater.
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