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Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, octopus and olives salad. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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. Olive oil: Everything you need to know about nutritional values, preparation and the health benefits. A fresh green salad is given a whole new lease of life with tender baby octopus, olives, herbs and lemon. Baby octopus are much easier to prepare than their bigger brethren.

Octopus and olives salad is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Octopus and olives salad is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook octopus and olives salad using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Octopus and olives salad:

1. Take octopus
2. Make ready olives chopped into pieces without the pip
3. Prepare Oil
4. Prepare juniper berries
5. Make ready bay leaves
6. Get Vinegar
7. Prepare Salt
8. Prepare Flat leaves parsley

We love octopus whether it is braised in tomato sauce and wine, grilled, or roasted but it is very difficult to find fresh octopus locally here in Umbria I recently came across a recipe in a special issue of the Italian version of La Cucina Italiana for a delicious looking octopus salad that really appealed to me. 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.

Steps 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. 1. 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.

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. Make sure to mix all the ingredients well. Salad seafood and avocado in bowl on light board. Two glasses of ouzo and appetizers.

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