Octopus cooked in Galician style, the recipe

Polpo alla gallega

Galician-style octopus, the recipe.
One of the octopus dishes that I like to taste the most is boiled octopus prepared Galician-style, a typical Spanish dish. It is very quick and easy to prepare.

Ingredients for two people:
– one octopus
– 2/3 potatoes
– extra virgin olive oil
– coarse salt
– paprika

Preparation:
First, boil the potatoes; take a couple of potatoes (preferably three that are not too large), rinse them well under running water and cook them, with the peel, in a saucepan for half an hour. To know when they are ready, just pierce them with a knife to test their softness.
At the same time, cook the octopus. To tell the truth, in my trusted supermarket, I found some very good pre-cooked octopus at a convenient price. But if you buy frozen or fresh octopus, you will have to boil it for a good while, from an hour to two in lightly salted water.

Once the potatoes and octopus are cooked, cut the potatoes into slices and the octopus (aesthetically speaking, it is better with only the tentacles) into slices too.

Arrange the potatoes on the bottom, with the octopus on top; drizzle with plenty of olive oil and sprinkle with coarse salt and paprika powder.

I heat everything slightly in the microwave because I like the dish slightly warm.

And the dish is ready to photograph and eat!

Polpo alla gallega

Polpo alla gallega

Photo taken with Canon EOS M100 and lens Canon EF-M 22.

Octopus is a very popular mollusc in professional and sport fishing. Fishing techniques are traditional and consist of using a bait called pulcina, which is sometimes used together with crabs and fish. Sometimes fresh octopus is prepared using the curling technique directly on the rocks or in special machines that allow it to be tasted raw. The curled octopus has tentacles in the shape of “curls”, dilated suckers and a characteristic “crunchy” consistency.
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Galician-style octopus, the recipe – Poulpe à la galicienne, la recette – Pulpo a la gallega, la receta – Polvo à Galega, a receita – Oktopus nach galizischer Art, das Rezept – Bạch tuộc kiểu Galicia, công thức – 加利西亚式章鱼,食谱 – ガリシア風タコ、レシピ

Galician octopus tentacle eaten in Ibiza

tentacolo di polpo alla gallega

Tentacle of octopus Galician style eaten in Ibiza.
This is a nice tentacle of octopus Galician style eaten a few weeks ago in Ibiza.
It was perhaps not the best I have ever eaten but we were in a dream restaurant.
The table, in fact, was 10 meters from the sea and the location alone was worth the price (almost as salty as the dish in question) paid at the end.
The dish is then the typical one, and that I have already posted several times, where the octopus (boiled) is placed on potatoes (also boiled) and olive oil. All with a generous sprinkling of paprika (sometimes very spicy).

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tentacolo di polpo alla gallega

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The common octopus (Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797) or octopus is a cephalopod of the Octopodidae family, which should not be confused with the polyp which is instead, for example, the animal (belonging to the Cnidaria) that gives rise to coral.
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Galician octopus tentacle eaten in Ibiza – Tentacule de poulpe galicien mangé à Ibiza – Tentáculo de pulpo gallego devorado en Ibiza – Tentáculo de polvo galego comido em Ibiza – Auf Ibiza gegessener galicischer Oktopustentakel – Ăn xúc tu bạch tuộc kiểu Galicia ở Ibiza – 在伊维萨岛食用的加利西亚式章鱼触须 – イビサ島で食べられるガリシアのタコの触手

Polpo alla galiziana o gallega a Ibiza

Polpo alla galiziana o gallega a Ibiza.
È uno dei miei piatti preferiti il polpo alla galiziana. Se sono in Spagna e devo mangiare fuori lo prendo sempre.
Polpo bollito appoggiato su un letto di patate (anche loro bollite). Abbondante olio d’oliva ed altrettanto abbondante paprika e sale. A me piace tantissimo quasi quanto il polpo alla ligure.

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Polpo alla galiziana

Photo taken with Canon 600D and lens Tamron 16-300.

The common octopus (Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797) or octopus is a cephalopod of the Octopodidae family, which should not be confused with the polyp which is instead, for example, the animal (belonging to the Cnidaria) that gives rise to coral.
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Galician or Galician octopus in Ibiza – Poulpe galicien ou galicien à Ibiza – Pulpo a la gallega o a la gallega en Ibiza – Polvo galego ou galego em Ibiza – Galicischer oder galicischer Oktopus auf Ibiza – Bạch tuộc Galicia hoặc Galicia ở Ibiza – 伊维萨岛的加利西亚或加利西亚章鱼 – イビザのガリシアまたはガリシアのタコ

Galician octopus, a spicy Spanish specialty

Polpo alla gallega

Galician octopus, a spicy Spanish specialty.
An excellent dish and a photo, I think, equally excellent: Galician octopus enjoyed in the covered market halfway down the Rambla in Barcelona. First time I've been there and first time I've tasted octopus prepared in this way.

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Polpo alla gallega

Photo taken with Canon 600D and lens Canon EF 40.

For further information on the recipe I refer you to my article in which I describe it to you.

The common octopus (Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797) or octopus is a cephalopod of the Octopodidae family, which should not be confused with the polyp which is instead, for example, the animal (belonging to the Cnidaria) that gives rise to coral.
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Galician octopus, a spiced Spanish specialty – Le poulpe galicien, une spécialité espagnole épicée – Pulpo a la gallega, especialidad española especiada – Polvo galego, uma especialidade espanhola temperada – Galicischer Oktopus, eine gewürzte spanische Spezialität – Bạch tuộc Galicia, đặc sản tẩm gia vị của Tây Ban Nha – ガリシアのタコ、スパイシーなスペインの特産品

Galician-style octopus, Spanish dish

Polpo alla gallega o galiziana, un piatto tipico spagnolo

Octopus a la gallega or Galician, a typical Spanish dish.
Another typical Spanish dish is octopus a la gallega (that is, Galician style).
I have to say that it is really good.
In this dish, however, there were no classic boiled potatoes that normally host the octopus.

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Polpo alla gallega o galiziana, un piatto tipico spagnolo

Photo taken with Canon 600D and lens Canon EF 40.

The common octopus (Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797) or octopus is a cephalopod of the Octopodidae family, which should not be confused with the polyp which is instead, for example, the animal (belonging to the Cnidaria) that gives rise to coral.
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Galician or Galician octopus in Ibiza – Poulpe galicien ou galicien à Ibiza – Pulpo a la gallega o a la gallega en Ibiza – Polvo galego ou galego em Ibiza – Galicischer oder galicischer Oktopus auf Ibiza – Bạch tuộc Galicia hoặc Galicia ở Ibiza – 伊维萨岛的加利西亚或加利西亚章鱼 – イビザのガリシアまたはガリシアのタコ