Octopus and olives salad
Octopus and olives salad

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook octopus and olives salad using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook 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. Prepare Oil
  4. Take 5/6 juniper berries
  5. Prepare 4 bay leaves
  6. Take Vinegar
  7. Prepare Salt
  8. Get Flat leaves parsley

For the dressing, put the olives and capers into a bowl, add the parsley, lemon juice to taste, some salt and pepper, and a generous glug of extra-virgin olive oil. To serve, drain the octopus, cut into manageable pieces, and divide among plates. Pile the potatoes and cima alongside and spoon over the dressing. Octopus and olives salad A classic starter in Italy for Christmas.

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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  5. 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.

You can also bulk it up with some boiled potatoes if you have lots of people. In a small bowl, whisk together the dressing ingredients and pour over the salad. Grilled octopus with olive oil, cayenne pepper and lemon. This Spanish grilled octopus with salad is the best and restaurant worthy, juicy, tender and delicious! Add the octopus and cook over medium-low heat for twenty minutes.

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