Cooking frozen octopus to surprise your guests

Cooking frozen octopus is easy and gives us delicious dishes. These dishes also have many nutritional values since the octopus has a large amount of vitamins and minerals while lacking the fats present in other meats.

Likewise, it is ideal since it can be used to prepare a multitude of tasty recipes that can be prepared quickly, especially if the octopus is already cooked, as in the case of frozen octopus. Otherwise, if we obtain it fresh, it is necessary to undertake a process of softening that delays the preparation of the food, something that can also be somewhat tiring since the most effective method to soften it would be to hit it.

An ideal dish to surprise our guests

On the other hand, cooking frozen octopus is quite fast, offering all the flavor potential and nutritional properties of the food. So, for all these reasons, a recipe that includes octopus is ideal to surprise our guests by offering them an exquisite dish, easy to prepare and which can take very little time to make.

In addition, cooked octopus combines very well with different condiments such as olive oil, onion, tomato, garlic, lemon, paprika, wine or ginger.

Galician style octopus

This explains why we can find a huge amount of recipes that include this food, starting with the “Galician octopus”, which is previously heated in a “bain-marie” or in the microwave, and then added with coarse salt, olive oil and paprika. Optionally, lemon can also be added, achieving spectacular flavor effects if you like this condiment.

Octopus legs seasoned to your liking

The octopus legs are very versatile, and you can even establish a method of preparation to which you can then add the seasoning of your choice. Thus, with about 400 grams of the product we can prepare a recipe for up to four diners, being particularly advisable if we have enough time to defrost the frozen octopus in the refrigerator itself, preferably on the rack so that the defrosting juices are properly evacuated, while if we heat the octopus before eating it, it will be even more tender.

Octopus with potatoes

Another exquisite culinary creation is the recipe for octopus with potatoes, which we detail below for you to try, we are sure you will love it!

Ingredients for 4-6 people would be the following:

• A raw octopus from Mariscos Apolo
• Two potatoes
• One onion
• A clove of garlic
• Two tomatoes
• Extra virgin olive oil
• Half a red bell pepper
• Half a spoonful of sweet paprika
• A glass of white wine
• A bay leaf
• Salt
• One chopped parsley
• A glass of white wine

The steps for its preparation are as follows:

1. Boil water with salt in a casserole to which an onion and bay leaf are also added.
2. When it is boiling, put the octopus in it for a few seconds and take it out. Procedure that we will repeat a total of four times to let it cook for thirty minutes.
3. Next we chop the garlic and we brown it with olive oil. Then add the chopped onion, and when it is golden brown add the tomato and the red bell pepper, sauté and sprinkle the paprika, reducing it all at the end with white wine.
4. Peel and cut the potatoes, then fry them in a frying pan, once they are ready we introduce them in the recipient in which we are preparing the stew together with the octopus pieces.
5. Let everything cook for about five more minutes.
6. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve preferably in an earthenware dish.