Spaghetti Arrabiata with Octopus and Prawns . This recipe is an easy, healthy and Summery pasta dish that can easily be adjusted to your liking. If you don’t want to use Octopus, just double the prawns or leave out the seafood altogether for a simple, spicy tomato pasta dish. Making a proper tomato sauce from scratch is one of the best basic cooking skills to have. I bought two frozen octopuses from Granite City Fish and used the other octopus for my Spanish Octopus recipe. Again, I think the best way to show you how to prepare the octopus is by watching this video for Octopus Preparation.
I used king prawns along with the Octopus for this recipe. However, other fish and seafood would work too. I would recommend mussels, scallops or monkfish. You might also like my recipes for Monkfish with Prosecco Sauce and Lemon Roasted Fennel or Seafood and Fennel Stew
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TIPS
- For non-seafood lovers, this arrabiata sauce would go well on its own or with cooked chicken breast.
- Top tips for perfect tomato sauce making are to cook the onions for a good 10 minutes until soft and translucent, using good quality tomatoes and seasoning the sauce really well.
- If you have any fresh basil, stir through a handful at the end of cooking the sauce and top with a few leaves for decoration.
- Always mix the spaghetti into the sauce and not the sauce into the spaghetti. Add a little of the pasta cooking water too.
- This spaghetti recipe goes well with garlic bread and a glass of wine from the bottle used for the recipe!
Spaghetti Arrabiata with Octopus and Prawns
Ingredients
- 1 whole Raw Octopus
- 200 g Raw prawns
- 6 Tomatoes
- 1 Onion finely chopped
- 5 Garlic cloves finely chopped or crushed
- 1 birds eye chilli or 2-3 red chilies finely chopped (adjust depending on how spicy you like it)
- 1 tsp Chilli flakes
- 2 tbsp Tomato puree
- 1 large glass White wine
- 180 g Spaghetti or use any pasta shape you like
- Olive oil
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
- After preparing the octopus (follow the link above for a video), fill a pan with boiling water and dip the octopus in for 3 minutes.
- Drain the pan and place the pan over a low heat and add the octopus back in with a drizzle of olive oil, half the chopped onion and a good grind of salt and pepper. Cover the pan and cook over a low heat for around 1 and a half hours (timing will depend on the size of the octopus. After around 1 hour, you can check how tender it is by piercing it with a knife)
- In the meantime, make the spicy tomato sauce. Fry the finely chopped onion in a tablespoon of olive oil over a low heat for around 10-15 minutes until really soft.
- Meanwhile, cut a cross in the bottom of each tomato, place in a bowl and pour boiling water on top. Leave for one minute and drain. When cool enough to handle, peel away the skins – they should peel away easily by hand. Cut each tomato in half and scoop out all the seeds and discard. Roughly chop the tomato flesh.
- Add the garlic, chilli and chilli flakes to the onion and continue to fry for a couple more minutes.
- Increase the heat to medium. Add the tomatoes, tomato puree and white wine and bubble until almost all the liquid has evaporated.
- Add the tinned tomatoes and then simmer for around 20 minutes. Season the sauce with salt and pepper.
- Cook the spaghetti according to packet instructions and drain, reserving some of the cooking water.
- Add the prawns to the octopus pan and then cook the prawns for just a couple of minutes, until pink.
- Add the drained spaghetti to the sauce and then add about 50ml of the reserved pasta cooking liquid to allow the sauce to become glossy and stick to the spaghetti. Taste and season the sauce, if needed, with salt and black pepper.
- Cut the octopus into chunks. Stir the octopus chunks and prawns into the spaghetti.
- Serve the Spaghetti Arrabiata and enjoy!
Hi, when you drain the octopus, would you out it back in low with onions and no liquid?
Pls let me
Know Thanks!
Hello! Yes, place it back in with no (or a little) liquid and cook over a low heat, covered with a lid for around one hour. I’ll make the recipe instructions clearer!
Thank you! I will do this for dinner tonight jt!
Great! How did you get on?
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