Purpu vugghiutu

IE: boiled Octopus.

It would be worth to report a food so simple, if this was not held in auge, especially by the people, which has always been awarded and attaches to boiled Octopus the same virtues that the better-off confer with lobster, both believed to be powerful stimulants of sexual energies.

For this Octopus, with its eight tentacles, violet from Mondello to Acitrezza impera in fasti petty popular cuisine nightly, that both entertains tourists, as does ' local color ', the glare of the lamps by thousands of boats, mountains of sea urchins and mussels.

If the polyp is big, this is slammed or mazziato without mercy, to soften it, breaking the nerves: If no ' is comu u purpu: cchiù Chan.

and cchiù becomes duru ', it's like the Octopus, more cooks more becomes hard.

It has to be sweet, boiled in salted water and then seasoned with olive oil, lemon, parsley and black pepper.