Risotto with octopus and cuttlefish

Hola !!!! Are you ready for a long weekend and relax?

I can not wait for the opportunity, and I leave you the recipe of a good risotto that is right, great for a dinner with friends in this long weekend !

To you:

Risotto with octopus and cuttlefish
 
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A refined risotto with octopus and cuttlefish
Autore:
Ricetta: First Course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • Approximately 500 g of octopus (about half octopus)
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 potato
  • 1 celery
  • vegetable broth q.s.
  • cooking water of the octopus
  • 1 shallot
  • 320 g Carnaroli rice
  • 1 sachet of 4 g of squid ink
  • a couple of tablespoons of grated cheese
  • parsley q.s.
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • half a glass of white wine
Preparazione
  1. Cook the octopus in cold water with a carrot, celery, potato, a little oil and a dash of white wine.
  2. Add salt when it begins to boil and cook for about an hour and thirty minutes.
  3. Let it cool in its water.
  4. Now take it, peel it and cut at least about half 'into pieces as we will use it for risotto.
  5. With the other half make a salad.
  6. If the octopus is small and you want to use it all to abound in flavor.
  7. So in a pan fry the shallots finely chopped with a little oil.
  8. Add octopus, season one minute and then open the bag of squid ink.
  9. Add rice, toast it, sprinkle it with white wine.
  10. Cook the rice for 18 minutes alternating with some 'vegetable broth and a bit' of cooking broth of the octopus.
  11. Sprinkle with parsley.
  12. Stir it with the cheese and extra virgin olive oil.

N.B. In cooking times I did not include that of octopus.

I don’t tell you what a great recipe that I left for you with the surplus of this risotto…

I wish you a good evening …

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Octopus salad with crispy potatoes

Octopus salad with crispy potatoes

Hello everybody! The Carnival is over! Now for a little bit just fried .. Today I propose the octopus salad, a simple but favolous recipe that I love to eat on every occasions. For changing a little bit instead of putting boiled potatoes I preferes to make them crispy, a detail that even if a small part it makes the  difference …

Octopus salad with crispy potatoes
 
Preparazione
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Octopus salad with crispy potatoes, an alternative to the classic recipe
Autore:
Ricetta: Second Course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 1 medium-size octopus
  • 1 carrot
  • 2 potatoes
  • 1 stalk of celery
  • a glass of white wine
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • olives
  • some cherry tomatoes
Preparazione
  1. Take the octopus, rinse under cold water, clean it (in the head, on the back where the little hole and the two eyes)
  2. Take a large pot, fill it with cold water, add the carrot celery potato, a drop of wine and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.
  3. Bring to a boil and cook for an hour and a half.
  4. Allow to cool octopus in its cooking water. Drain, peel it and make it into cubes.
  5. Put it in a bowl along with the tomatoes and olives. Drizzle with olive oil, season with salt and sprinkle with parsley.
  6. Meanwhile, cut a potato into small cubes and roast it with a little 'oil.
  7. Serve the octopus salad with small dice of potato crisp


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