#531
SAT, AUG 13, 2022
Octopus Pasta
Notes
20220813, #breakfastdiary 522, 24°C/rain
Sauté garlic and onion in olive oil in a heated pan. Add the prepared octopus and tomatoes, season with salt and pepper, and sauté.
Toss the boiled squid ink spaghetti with a little pasta water and perilla leaf pesto, then add the prepared ingredients, ssg ssg (toss toss), and garnish with the world's most beautiful perilla leaves for today's (brunch, this time) #OctopusPasta
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Ingredients
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Steps
- 01
Boil the squid ink spaghetti in boiling water with salt.
- 02
Heat olive oil in a pan and sauté thinly sliced garlic and minced onion.
- 03
Add the prepared boiled octopus and halved cherry tomatoes to step 2, season with salt and pepper, and sauté.
- 04
Add the squid ink spaghetti from step 1, 1/2 cup pasta water, and perilla leaf pesto to step 3, and mantecare (emulsify) together.
- 05
Plate and top with a little chopped perilla leaf.
