The dish doesn't have to be made with canned octopus, but it works well to keep it on budget. On their own, potatoes are bland and easily take on other flavors, so they'll add substance and ...

After pre-cooking, grill or stew the octopus until tender. Rice with octopus is a popular fried dish from Portugal, or try stewing it in Elizabeth David's Genoese fish stew or burrida.

Takoyaki — sometimes translated as “octopus balls” — are grilled balls of batter with bits of octopus meat and other ingredients like green onions, rice puffs, or pickled ginger, all topped with a ...