Octopus Rice

Name: Octopus Rice
Prep time: 60 min
Total time: 100 min
Ingredients: 500 g cleaned octopus; ½ cup white rice; 1 tomato; ¼ cup sea bean; 1 lime; 6 cloves chopped garlic; 1 chopped onion; vinegar to taste; 6 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; salt to taste; 1 l boiling water

1h 40m

Juicy and tender octopus cooked with Paella style rice! Octopus Rice is a delicious dish to cook for your loved ones, and pairs nicely with a salad and some red wine!

Inspired by the typical recipe from Portugal of octopus cooked with rice, this dish is also inspired by the Spanish "Paella".

Put a 500 g cleaned octopus in a steamer. Place it over a saucepan with 1 L of boiling water on low heat
Cover and steam for 35m until tender
Remove the octopus from the steamer, let it cool and reserve. Reserve the flavored liquid
Roughly chop 1 tomato and put it on a tall recipient
Add 6 chopped garlic cloves
Add 1 chopped onion
Add 2 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil
Add vinegar to taste
Add salt to taste
Blend into a paste
Cut ¼ cup of sea beans in small pieces
Add 1 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil to hot pan
Add blended tomato mix. Reduce by ½
Add ½ cup of long-grain white rice. Mix
Add 300 ml of octopus steaming liquid
Add salt to taste
Simmer for 15m on low heat until al dente
Cut octopus tentacles
Add octopus tentacles to rice
Cook rice on high heat for 2m to caramelize
Add sea beans
Drizzle 3 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil
Zest 1 lime
The Octopus Rice is ready. Enjoy!