Cooking Recipe Polvo Frito - Fried Octopus
Recipe Ingredients
1 kg
Octopus
3
Eggs beaten
1/4 c
Milk
Directions
salt and pepper to taste finely chopped parsley olive oil
A friend born in Portugal supplied this simple and excellent example
of Portuguese home-cooking.
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.
From Meryl Constance' column in the Sydney Morning Herald, "Raw
Materials". 3/2/93. Courtesy, Mark Herron.