# Spaghetti al polpo ubriaco livornese

A delicious first course of spaghetti with drunken octopus, a traditional dish from Livorno.

- Total time: 55 min
- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Dinner
- Language: it

## Ingredients

- 2 fresh baby octopuses
- 1 red onion
- 1 garlic
- abundant Tuscan extra virgin olive oil
- Tuscan red wine
- 1 spoonful tomato paste
- parsley
- spaghettoni
- pepper
- a drop water

## Instructions

1. Go to your fishmonger and pick up two fresh baby octopuses.
2. Cut the octopus into small pieces.
3. Set the cut octopus aside.
4. Chop a red onion finely.
5. Add a clove of garlic to the chopped onion.
6. In a casserole, add abundant Tuscan extra virgin olive oil and let it sizzle.
7. Add all the octopus to brown in the casserole.
8. Cover the casserole with a lid and let it cook for 5 minutes.
9. Add Tuscan red wine to the octopus and let it get heavily drunk.
10. Add a spoonful of tomato paste to give character to the sauce.
11. Set the heat to minimum, cover, and let it cook for 50 minutes to prevent it from becoming chewy.
12. Chop some parsley the old way.
13. After 50 minutes, add the spaghettoni directly into the octopus sauce.
14. Season with pepper; do not add salt as the sauce might already be salty.
15. Add a drop of water if needed to achieve a creamy consistency.
16. At the end of cooking, add chopped parsley and a drop of olive oil.
17. Serve the spaghetti with octopus sauce.

## Equipment

- casserole

## Tips

- To prevent the octopus from becoming chewy, cook it on minimum heat with a lid for 50 minutes.

## Source

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- Extracted: 2026-05-21

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