Pickled Octopus Salad with Beetroot, Radishes and Capers
Visit a Blue Island Fish Market for your Octopus
Prepare the ingredients:
1. Cook the Octopus
2. Boil the Beets
3. Prepare the vinegar mixture
4. Serve
Method:
Pour the water into a pot and add the pepper corns, bay leaf, cinnamon stick and sliced celery together with the octopus and cook for about 40-45 minutes. Drain and set aside. Once cooled, cut into thin slices and place into a bowl.
Pour the vinegar, sugar, thyme and mustard seeds into a saucepan. Heat until the sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and pour over the octopus. Transfer into a jar with a lid, cover and leave to marinate for 6 hours.
Place the octopus onto a plate and garnish with the beets, capers, radishes and celery. Serve.
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Ingredients for the Octopus: | |
1 kg Octopus | |
2 Bay leaves | |
1 Cinnamon stick | |
10 Black Pepper corns | |
1 stick of Celery cut into thin slices | |
2 cups of Water | |
Ingredients for the Pickle mixture: changethistotitle | |
500 g White Vinegar | |
150 g Sugar | |
2.5 sprigs of fresh thyme | |
1 tbsp Mustard seeds | |
Ingredients for the Salad: changethistotitle | |
2 Beets, boiled and cut into slices | |
2 Radishes cut into slices | |
Celery leaves for garnish | |
2 tbsp Capers or Caper Berries | |
Pickled Octopus |