Can anyone help me find a recipe for the italian marinated octopus tentacles salad ?!
Wash octopus and tenderize with mallet. Place octopus in boiling, salted water for two hours until tender. Remove octopus from water, drain and cut into rounds. Combine octopus, oil, vinegar, garlic, parsley, rosemary, and lemon juice and allow to marinate overnight. Serve cold
Answers: 1 c. olive oil Vinegar, garlic, parsley, rosemary and lemon to taste
Wash octopus and tenderize with mallet. Place octopus in boiling, salted water for two hours until tender. Remove octopus from water, drain and cut into rounds. Combine octopus, oil, vinegar, garlic, parsley, rosemary, and lemon juice and allow to marinate overnight. Serve cold
wow thats disgusting
how about we have a regular salad instead?
try this one?
Calabrian Octopus Salad - - Insalata di Polipi
Octopus Salad, or Insalata di Polipi: While we're on the subject of octopus, here's a Calabrian recipe for octopus salad that will be a nice antipasto.
INGREDIENTS:
2 1/4 pounds (1 k) octopus -- ideally small octopus
2 cups (1/2 l) strong red wine vinegar
2 cups (1/2 l) water
Olive oil
3 cloves garlic, minced
3 tablespoons parsley, minced
Salt & freshly ground pepper
PREPARATION:
Clean the octopus, and put them in a pot with the vinegar and the water. Salt the pot, bring it to a boil, cover it, and simmer the octopus until it's fork tender.
Drain the octopus, trim the suckers (which are unpleasantly rubbery) from the tentacles, and dice the octopus, putting the pieces in a bowl (terracotta will look nice here). Season them with the minced herbs, salt and pepper to taste, abundant olive oil, and serve.
A note: this salad will keep for several days if you seal it in a glass jar.
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you mean calamari salad????
CALAMARI SALAD
2 lbs. squid, fresh or frozen, cleaned and skinned
1/4 c. white wine
Salt, pinch, if desired
1/4 tsp. dried red pepper flakes
6 sprigs fresh parsley
DRESSING:
2 tsp. finely minced garlic
2 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tbsp. red wine vinegar
3 tbsp. finely chopped parsley
1/2 c. finely chopped red onion
1/2 c. finely chopped celery
1/4 c. olive oil
1 red pepper cut into strips
1/2 c. pitted black olives
Oregano, basil to taste
Cut squid into rings about 1/2 inch. Cut tentacles into bite-sized pieces. There should be about 3 to 3 1/2 cups. In a saucepan, place squid, add wine and water to cover; add salt, pepper, garlic, red pepper flakes and parsley. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and cook about 30 minutes. Drain.
To prepare dressing: In a bowl, mix garlic, parsley, lemon juice, vinegar, red onion, celery and olive oil together. Blend well. Toss squid with dressing. Chill for about 4 hours. To serve, garnish with red pepper strips and black olives. Makes 6 to 8 servings.
There you go!
Octopus salad
Category Italian, Fish & Seafood
Serves/Yields 4
Difficulty Easy
Prep. Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Introduction
In Italy we serve this salad as a starter, usually followed by a pasta dish and a second course.
It's great in summer matched with a dry white wine like a Verdicchio or Regaleali
There are thousands variations of this dish, for example in some regions they add mussels and clams, or even shrimps, as well as other vegetables, like bell peppers or cucumbers.
Ingredients
1 Lb octopus (frozen will do, but fresh is much much better)
Juice of 1 lemon
1 celery stalk
2 laurel (fresh bay) leafs- dry bay leaf will do if fresh is not available
1 garlic_clove
1 teaspoon wine or cider_vinegar
Several black peppercorns
4 Tbsp extra_virgin_olive_oil
12 black gaeta or greek olives, pitted
Sea_salt, pepper, red_pepper_flakes
1 cork stopper
Directions
Step: 1
Clean octopus, removing eyes and the beak.
Bring 4 quarts salted water to a boil.
Add laurel, garlic, peppercorns and the octopus, and let the cork stopper float in the water. I do not know the scientific explanation, but here in Italy we believe that the cork will make the octopus more tender.
Cover and cook on low heat for one hour.
Step: 2
Meanwhile, dice the celery stalk and cut olives in half.
When the octopus is done, let it cool in it's water: when cold, remove skin and all the suction cups and cut tentacles and the head in small pieces, about 1/2 inch each.
Step: 3
Put octopus, celery, olives, in a serving bowl.
Add oil, vinegar, lemon juice. Season with salt, pepper and red hot chili pepper flakes to taste.
Let sit in the fridge for at least 3 hours before serving
Garnish with minced parsley.