If you love baby octopus, you will love this pasta, it’s another special taste of octopus. It’s also easy to cook and good for summer time, let’s try to cook it.
材料 (INGREDIENTS)：
小八爪魚 (Baby Octopus) – 10隻 (10 pcs)
青橄欖 (Green Olives) – 8粒 (8 pcs)
西班牙酸豆 (Capers) – 1湯匙 (1 tablespoon)
油浸鯷魚 (Anchovies) – 4條 (4 fillets)
車厘茄 (Cherry Tomatos) – 12粒 (12 pcs)
蒜頭 (Garlic) – 2個 (2 gloves)
鹽 (Sea salt) – 小量 (A pinch)
紅辣椒 (Red chilli) – 1條 (1 pc)
橄欖油 (Olive Oil) – 4湯匙 (4 tablespoons)
意大利芫茜 (Parsley)
做法 (METHOD)：
1. 蒜頭切小粒、辣椒切碎、鯷魚切小份、車厘茄切半
Chop garlic, slice chilli and anchovies, cherry tomato cut in half.
2. 準備一個平底鍋，加入橄欖油，放入八爪魚，中火煎一會，待八爪魚開始變硬後，加入蒜頭、辣椒、鯷魚、橄欖、酸豆、車厘茄及一小紮蕃茜，略炒勻
Prepare a saucepan, put olive oil in, add baby octopus, medium heat for cooking until turn a bit hard, then put garlic, chilli, anchovies, olives, capers, cherry tomato and a small punch of whole flat leaf parsley, mix it a little bit
3. 轉細火後，蓋上，煮大約35分鐘
change to small heat and lid on, cook for around 35 minutes
In Italy, actually there are more than six hundred types of pasta, different states using their specific type of pasta; in Hong Kong, we mostly familiar only few types of pasta : spaghetti, macaroni, linguine, etc., but no need try to follow them all.
If you have a very good skill for cutting pasta, otherwise better use pasta maker to assist you to do so, it’s more easier and faster. On the other hand, I really saw an italian woman who made any type of pastas using her skilful hands without any machines, just a simple tool – knife, I’m really so respect what she did for pasta, unfortunately I think I can’t be like her at all.
About the pasta maker, there’s one brand that easy to find in any department stores in Hong Kong as follows, it’s comes with two type of pasta mold, Fettuccine and angle hair, so if you wanna make spaghetti, you have to buy extra mold for it :
I’m using bread maker for help to making a dough, after the dough is done, just sit in the bread maker for resting around half an hour, and prepare the pasta maker too.
Take out the dough and put some flour on the top and cut in a half, just push down a bit and set the pasta maker to “0”, put the dough in the maker and roll it through, then fold it in half and put it to roll again until you can feel the dough a bit dry, then change the maker to “1” and repeat the step and add 1 after one and another until add to 4-5, then cut the pasta into 2, then put it into the mold for rolling until pasta form came out.
1. 加入橄欖油及蒜頭，用小火爆香
Olive oil in and put garlic, stir it a little bit,
2. 放入番茄，煮至出油份，微微地壓扁一下
add cherry tomato, stir it until some oil out and squeeze it a little bit,
3. 倒入罐裝番茄，把番茄壓碎一點，大約煮5分鐘
add tinned tomato and press into small chunk, cook for 5 mins
4. 加入羅勒葉及調味
Put sweet basil in and season it,
5. 用手提攪拌器把醬汁攪至細滑就完成了。
Use hand blender to stir it until smooth and finished.
菜色 For Pasta Dish
材料 (INGREDIENTS)：
矮瓜 (Eggplant) – 1個 (1 pc)
蒜頭 (garlic) – 2個 (2 gloves) –> 切片 (sliced)
辣椒 (chilli) – 1隻 (1 pc) –>切碎 (sliced)
橄欖 (Olive) – 10 粒 (10 pcs) –> 切半 (cut in halve)
地中海酸豆 (Caper) – 少量 (handful)
意大利番茄醬(Passata sauce)
羅勒葉 (Sweet Basil)
鹽 (sea salt)
做法 (METHOD)：
1. 準備平底鍋，加入橄欖油，把矮瓜切粒，開小火，放入平底鍋，炒至軟身；把炒好的矮瓜放上有吸油紙的碟，備用
Prepare a saucepan, olive oil in, cut the eggplant into cube, open a small heat and cook the eggplant until soft, then put the cooked eggplant into a kitchen paper
2. 煲水加鹽，放入意粉
Boil a water with sea salt and cook spaghetti
3. 另一邊用平底鍋，加入橄欖油，爆香蒜片及辣椒
On the other hand, prepare a saucepan, add olive oil, garlic and chilli, cook a little bit
4. 加入橄欖及地中海酸豆，再加入意大利番茄醬及羅勒
Add olives and capers, then put passata sauce and basil, cook for a while
5. 把矮瓜加入醬料攪勻及調味
put back the eggplant into the pan and season it and stir it well
6. 放入已煮好的意粉撈勻就完成了。
Add spaghetti in and mix it, finished
Put some olive oil and water into the plate （about 1/2 of the meatballs), close the plates and steam for 30 minutes;
7. 煮意粉，備用
cook spaghetti in the meanwhile;
8. 把蒸好的肉丸連湯回鑊，煮一下就熄火，加入意粉及巴馬臣芝士，拌勻，再加入香芹碎就完成了。
After steamed meatballs, prepare a pan, small heat and put all the meatballs with water into the pan, add spaghetti and parmesan cheese, mix it well and add some parsley too, finished.
Since I only have one cooker in my little kitchen, but I have steam oven, so I use another method too for reference :
Prepare a pan, put some olive oil and water (about 1/2 of the meatball), then put all the meatballs and steam for 30 minutes; pull out the pan after steamed and put it into the cooker directly, small heat, add spaghetti and parmesan cheese, mix it all well and finished.
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