Tuesday, December 8, 2009

3 Favorite Octopus Recipes

Octopus is one of the sea's last rare delicacies -- commercial fishing techniques as well as the trend towards aquaculture have made everything else so readily accessible and cheap. Octopus remains a rare treat, though -- and you need a rare treat of a recipe to bring out the best in those delicate little tentacles and suckers! Today we have a quick run through of our favorite octopus recipes (with full links) that you can use for when you buy seafood online and treat yourself to octopus.
You'll find most of the recipes using your seafood delivery of fresh octopus are salad-style dishes, but most (like this one) are suitable as main courses. This one pairs the octopus with minimal additional ingredients -- celery and carrot are the octopus's only accompaniments, other than dressing flavors. The dressing lets the flavor of the octopus shine through -- simple parsley, garlic, olive oil, lemon juice, sea salt and oregano are the accompaniments.
A traditional, and delicious Italian dish, the octopus is better fresh, but frozen is just as acceptable. The octopus and linguine are again the main ingredients -- buying seafood online and including octopus is not often done, and people want to relish the natural flavor! Tomatoes, garlic, hot red pepper flakes, olive oil parsley and basil make this a very distinctly Italian flavor.
Away from Italy now -- far across the sea to Thailand, we find another of our favorite octopus recipes for your next seafood delivery. Around a kilo of octopus is needed to serve four people as an entrée, and the coriander, chilli and garlic is used as a dipping sauce for the pan-fried octopus. The herbs are suspended in olive oil, and are all used fresh -- this dish absolutely explodes with flavor!

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