Polvo frito (fried octopus)

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
-A friend born in Portugal supplied this simple and excellent example Portuguese home-cooking.

Directions

Precook 1 kg of octopus, drain and cool. Cut it up into generous chunks. Beat 3 eggs, with a little milk salt and pepper to taste, and half a bunch of very finely chopped parsley. Coat the octopus pieces in the egg mixture and shallow fry in a little olive oil, turning them until are golden. Serve.

Makes 3 or 4 servings.

From Meryl Constance' column in the Sydney Morning Herald, "Raw Materials". 3/2/93. Courtesy, Mark Herron.

Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; June 4 1993. * SLMR 2.1a * Sooner or later it all comes down to gray tape.

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