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🍽️ Pan-fried Octopus with Potato-Celery Mash and Melted Paprika Butter

1132 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Peel the celery and the potatoes.
  2. 2. Cut the vegetables into cubes of about three to four centimeters.
  3. 3. Place the cubes in a medium-sized pot.
  4. 4. Cover them with cold water seasoned with salt.
  5. 5. Bring the water to a boil.
  6. 6. Cook the vegetables until soft for about 25 to 30 minutes with the lid on.
  7. 7. Put 50 grams of butter and the milk into a small pot.
  8. 8. Heat the mixture.
  9. 9. Season it with salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg.
  10. 10. Drain the cooking water from the vegetables.
  11. 11. Mash the vegetables roughly with a potato masher.
  12. 12. Pour in the warm milk-butter mixture gradually.
  13. 13. Stir until the desired consistency is reached.
  14. 14. Season the mash with salt and pepper to taste.
  15. 15. Peel the garlic.
  16. 16. Roughly chop the garlic.
  17. 17. Heat olive oil in a frying pan over high heat.
  18. 18. Pan-fry the octopus arms for about three to four minutes.
  19. 19. Reduce the heat.
  20. 20. Add the garlic.
  21. 21. Fry everything for another one to two minutes.
  22. 22. Season the octopus with salt and pepper.
  23. 23. Melt the remaining butter in a small pan.
  24. 24. Stir in paprika powder.
  25. 25. Let the butter foam briefly until it smells fragrant.
  26. 26. Wash the mint and the parsley.
  27. 27. Shake the herbs dry.
  28. 28. Remove the thick stems.
  29. 29. Chop the leaves.
  30. 30. Set the herbs aside.
  31. 31. Spread the potato-celery mash onto plates.
  32. 32. Place three octopus arms on the mash each.
  33. 33. Drizzle the octopus generously with the paprika butter.
  34. 34. Sprinkle the chopped herbs over it.
  35. 35. Serve the dish.

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