Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, octopus salad/ insalata di polpo. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
A delicious and colorful insalata di polpo, or Octopus Salad, is perhaps the best way to get to know the unique qualities of this intriguing mollusc. The amount of lemon juice and seasonings that go into the dressing for your insalata di polpo are largely a matter of taste. Octopus and potato salad is a favorite dish all along the Italian coast.
Octopus Salad/ Insalata di polpo is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Octopus Salad/ Insalata di polpo is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook octopus salad/ insalata di polpo using 5 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Octopus Salad/ Insalata di polpo:
- Make ready 1 1/2 lb baby octopus raw
- Take 3 clove garlic
- Take 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- Make ready 1 tbsp fresh parsley
- Take 1/2 tbsp lemon juice (one lemon cut in wedges)
This Portuguese octopus salad is simply devine. Portuguese octopus salad is truly one of my favorite things. Those who know me, know how much I love to eat octopus. Some say it is an acquired taste but I think it is more the texture that people think they may not like.
Steps to make Octopus Salad/ Insalata di polpo:
- Cut octopus in half.
- Make a small cut and remove the beak.
- Cut off top, and discard the lower section.
- Clean out the inside of the top section. Make a slice to open up and scrape out until smooth.
- Repeat for each octopus.
- Then rinse.
- Put octopus in a pan on very low heat for 30 minutes.
- Once the octopus have cooked, allow to cool in water released.
- Drain and rinse well.
- Cut into bite size pieces.
- Add garlic, oil and mix well. Salt and pepper to taste. Marinate in refrigerator at least 30 minutes. Garnish with parsley and lemon wedges. Note: Garlic for marinade, not eaten (unless desired.)
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. Typically served in Calabrian restaurants, the main ingredients of insalata di polpo are boiled octopus, herbs, spices, and some lemon juice. Because octopuses creep and crawl better than they swim, they like to congregate near rocks. Thus, Stefano and his cousins used to stand on the pier that stretched out Back home, Stefano's mamma, Maria, or his aunt, Zia Elena, cooked the octopus and made a delicious antipasto of insalata di polpo.
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