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Title: Pulpo En Diabla
Categories: Ethnic Seafood
Yield: 1 Batch
| THE SAUCE | ||
| 1 | md | Onion, finely chopped |
| 2 | lg | Garlic cloves, minced |
| 1 | tb | Fennel seeds |
| 2 | Jalapeno peppers, quartered | |
| 2 | Red bell peppers, coarse chopped | |
| 1 | lg | Ripe mango's flesh |
| 2 | c | Chicken broth |
| 2 | tb | Butter |
| 1 | Juice of 1 lime | |
| 1 | Salt to taste | |
| COOKING THE OCTOPUS | ||
| 2 1/4 | lb | Young octopus |
| 8 | tb | Olive oil |
| 1 | Thinly sliced medium white onion, | |
| 1/2 | c | Red wine |
| 8 | oz | Can of tomatoes, roughly chopped |
| 2 | ts | Dried oregano |
| 1 | Black pepper | |
Preparation:
Melt butter in saucepan over medium heat and add garlic, onion and fennel seeds. Saute for a while then stir in peppers and mango. Cook for 5 minutes before adding chicken broth. Reduce by 3/4. Transfer mixture to blender and blend ingredients on high speed for 1/2 min. Season to taste with lime juice and salt.
Cooking the Octopus:
Clean the octopus. Pull off the tentacles and then remove and discard the intestines and the ink sac and any other naughty bits inside. Outside, remove the eyes and cut off the beak. That disagreeable task out of the way, you may now skin the octopus and wash and scrub it thoroughly to remove any sand.
Cut it into 1 1/2 to 2 inch pieces and put it into a non-stick saucepan over medium flame to release the liquid inside the octopus. Stir until this liquid has evaporated.
Now add the olive oil and stir the octopus searing it lightly on all sides. Add the onion slices stirring once or twice, until they colour slightly.
Add the wine, tomatoes, oregano and a little fresh ground pepper.
Stir well, cover the pan and simmer gently for about an hour, checking from time to time that the sauce has not dried out. If it does add a little more wine or water. The octopus is cooked when it can be easily pierced with a skewer.
Remove the octopus and retain some of the sauce in the pan. Add to this the Diabolo sauce and mix thoroughly over a medium heat . When it is well blended, return the chunks of octopus to the pan and stir them in until they are reheated. Remove from the stove and serve at once.
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