Octopus Chunks with Veggie Rice

Cooking after some fun but exhausting days needs to be simple. But ordering something was out of the question.

 

Cooking rice in the rice cooker is easy, but what is there to eat with the rice. The veggie drawer was nearly empty. Only two lonesome carrots and a green onion were there. Enough of the veggie part of my rice dish.

Now I needed some protein. A large jar of white tuna filets - too much. Some canned Tulip breakfast meat (like Spam) not interested. On the same shelf a little blue cardboard box with foreign lable. Spanish! A gift from a friend's holiday. Small enough to take off my hunger and deliver some protein. The picture on the front looked like Octopus. The description said: in girasole = in sunflower oil

I opened the can and it was packed with chunks of ocotopus. I used the sunflower oil to sautee the carrot and onion chunks. A good while until the carrots had softened, then I added a little Noilly Prat to steam them a bit more. Just before the rice was done, I added the ocotopus pieces just to warm through.

A bit black pepper and a little salt and the tasty dish was ready to eat.