Octopus and olives salad
Octopus and olives salad

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Octopus Salad With Potatoes, Tomatoes, Olives, & CapersItalian Food Forever. You can find Octopus and Potato Salad recipe in all Italian seafood and fish restaurants with little differences from region to region; for example in Liguria they add Taggiasca olives and pine nuts and in the southern regions they add hot chili peppers or capers, but the basic recipe is the same all over. Tender octopus turns this salad into an elegant main course salad.

Octopus and olives salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Octopus and olives salad is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have octopus and olives salad using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Octopus and olives salad:
  1. Prepare 1 kg octopus
  2. Make ready 1 jar olives chopped into pieces without the pip
  3. Make ready Oil
  4. Take 5/6 juniper berries
  5. Prepare 4 bay leaves
  6. Take Vinegar
  7. Prepare Salt
  8. Prepare Flat leaves parsley

Ingredients: boiled octopus Olive Oil Extra Vergine garlic. Cooking octopus for your octopus salad takes some bit of technique. If you're not precise about it, you may end up with chewy rubbery meat. In the bowl with the sliced octopus, add the lemon, extra virgin olive oil, salt, and pepper.

Instructions to make Octopus and olives salad:
  1. In a large pan bring water to boil with the juniper berries broke in half, the bay leaves, salt and a drop of white vinegar
  2. When it boils drop the octopus in the water by submerging it first 3/4 times as per video below. As you can see tentacles start to curl immediately with the hot water. Octopus and olives salad1. Submerge the octopus and leave it in the simmering water on low heat for about 30 min. Now the cooking time depends on the size of the octopus so I would suggest to start with a 30 min timer and then cook it longer if needed. You know that it’s ready when you can easily put a fork through the middle part of the octopus without needing force.
  3. When ready remove it from the water and you can either simply chop it into pieces or if you want to remove some of the skin simply peel it out with your hands under cold water and then chop it
  4. Add olive oil, parsley, and lemon. Mix in the olives. You can keep it covered in the fridge and if you make it in advance, serve at room temperature.

Make sure to mix all the ingredients well. For the octopus, put all the ingredients into a large pan and cover with water. Lift out the cooked octopus and set aside to cool a little, then slice into bite-sized For the salad, put all the ingredients into a large glass bowl and mix, season with salt and pepper. Photo "Octopus salad with olives" can be used for personal and commercial purposes according to the conditions of the purchased Royalty-free license. Octopus Salad (Food Network)Source: Food Network.

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