Portuguese Octopus - yeah that's right!!!

What you need:
1 octopus - we get them at specialty stores frozen w/ ink removed already
1 large onion chopped
Olive oil
1 can large tomato sauce
2 tablespoons of Portuguese allspice ( if you need it I can always send you what the ingredients are...I believe its tumeric, paprika & ground orange peel)
1/2 tbs paprika
1 tbs black pepper
1 tbs red crushed pepper
1/2 can of Guiness
3/4 c red wine (traditionally Portuguese wine which is pretty sweet so use your equivalent)
1 packet of Sazon Goya
1/2 dozen small potatoes cubed

DO it!

• Skin the octopus hood and webbing and cut into 1 1/2 inch chunks
• Sautee onion in olive oil and then add octopus once onion has softened
• Octopus will excrete ALOT of water during this time - do not discard it...and it will be pinkish...this is ok...the octopus decreases alot in size at this point as well...
• Once it starts to look "cooked" - looks harder/tough comparitively you will want to add it to a large soup pot w/ onions
• Add potatoes to this pot - RAW - they will cook in octopus' juices
• Add beer, wine, tomato sauce and stir
• Bring to Boil
• Add remaining dry ingredients (sometimes i also add hot sauce for extra kick)
• Stir frequently and bring to boil
• Cover and simmer for 45-75 minutes (time varies depending on the toughness of the octopus)
  
• You want to stir this pretty regularly or else it will begin to stick to the bottom
• You will know it is cooked bc the potatoes will be VERY soft and you should taste the octopus...it will NOT be chewy if it is completely done...
• This cook time usually takes the full hour and ten/fifteen for me to cook...and prep time is laborious to say the least...it takes both Adam and I doing the skinning and cutting for this to be 1/2 process...BUT SO WORTH IT!!!

Please feel free to email me with any questions if you truly want help making this.
The spices can be a little off bc I usually dont measure anything out and make this "to taste" as it is a family recipe. BOM APETITE!!!!

(botom pic is what they look like frozen...like a small basketball)