Polvo a Lagareiro

Name: Polvo a Lagareiro
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Portuguese
Ingredients: 1 whole octopus, boiled; 6 small potatoes; 4 cloves garlic; 1/2 cup olive oil

Polvo à Lagareiro/POHL-voo ah lah-gah-RAY-roo/

About this dish

Roasted octopus drizzled generously with olive oil, served with smashed potatoes.

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Ingredients

🐙1 whole octopus, boiled

🥔6 small potatoes

🧄4 cloves garlic

🫒1/2 cup olive oil

Method

Serves 2

Roast the boiled octopus and potatoes together at high heat until crisp at the edges.

Smash the potatoes slightly to create more crispy surface.

Fry garlic briefly in olive oil.

Drizzle the garlic oil generously over the octopus and potatoes.

Serve hot.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Polvo à lagareiro is a well-known Portuguese dish, named after the olive press workers (lagareiros) known for using generous amounts of olive oil.

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