roasted octopus with beans and mashed potatoes

PROCEEDINGS

Boil the Octopus in water with a piece of onion, one of carrot, one of celery and bay leaf: I put it in cold water and I do bake about 45 minutes after the boil. Then let it rest in its cooking water until.

Cook the beans with the remaining bits of carrots, onions and celery in unsalted water and, When cooked (about 50-60 minutes because they must get pretty soft) season with salt. Drain the beans and vegetables, putting aside the cooking water, and pass them to the mixer adding a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and lots of cooking water how much it takes to get a cream of the density that you prefer. You can make it more fluid, as if it were a zuppetta, or more dense as a sauce. The choice is yours. Adjust salt and pepper at the end.

Boil the potatoes in salted water, Peel them, mash with potato masher. Put them in a saucepan with the butter on low heat, season with salt and pepper and add as much milk as needed to obtain a smooth, homogeneous and appriciated, then sprinkle with pecorino.

Clean the parsley by removing the stems and mix the leaves with a little extra virgin olive oil. until you get a bright green compound. When the Octopus will be cold, cut the eight tentacles and smeared with oil, then roast on Grill toasty stirring each side until the surface becomes crispy.

Put on the bottom of the pot one tablespoon of cream of cannellini beans, lay two roasted Octopus tentacles and train alongside the Octopus two quenelle of mashed potatoes and pecorino (take a spoonful of the mixture with a spoon and, with the aid of another Spoon into a rotary movement formed the quenelle). Season with the parsley oil and some crystal of Maldon salt and serve. Bon appétit!

THE PAIRING: We tried to match this recipe a wheat beer. We chose the Open White, the brewery Baladin in Piozzo (Wedge): dense foam and soft, scents of citrus and coriander notes, good balance of bitter (hops and gentian root) with the taste of the beans and the flavor of the potatoes with cheese. Altogether it is a pleasant feeling of freshness beer capable of restoring that make it suitable as a simple appetizer.