Recipe Ingredient
- 1kg octopus
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 onions (sliced)
- 2 cloves garlic (crushed)
- 1 red chilli (sliced)
- 2 green peppers (sliced)
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp cumin
- 240g whole peeled tomatoes (sliced)
- 1 tbsp tomato paste
- 250ml red wine
- 1 bay leaf
- 15ml chopped parsley
- salt and pepper
- 4 potatoes (quartered)
- juice and rind of 1 lemon
Instructions
- Prepare octopus. Separate tentacles. Cook the octopus in its own juice for 15 minutes. Cool, strip off skin and cut tentacles into bite-size pieces.
- Fry onions in oil until soft. Add garlic, chilli and green pepper. Fry a further two minutes.
- Add octopus, paprika and cumin; fry for five minutes.
- Next, put in tomatoes, tomato paste, wine, bay leaf, parsley, salt and pepper. Simmer for one hour.
- Add potatoes and simmer a further 30 minutes. Lastly, stir in lemon juice and rind.
