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Harbinger of summer - some grilled octopus for lunch 🐙
After almost scaling 30 degrees Centigrade on May Day, the recent cyclone with its rain has moved the weather more towards late autumn than summer. Still, one needs to try. So decided on something more summery for lunch, while waiting for the weather to catch up 😉
The first idea was to do it with salad, but as our resident salad maker was busy with a Star Wars marathon with the kids, I improvised with something a tad heavier 🦾
After boiling it for ca. 45 minutes it needed to cool down for at least half an hour in oil, before getting grilled…
This gave me time for some sweet potato mash…
And peas 🫛
Before finally grilling the now cooled down and oiled octopus 🐙
Maybe not as light as a salad but still quite ‘early’ summer in style. First time I grilled an octopus myself and overall quite happy with the results 😋
Hopefully something tasty on your plates this Sunday, too 🍽️
Bon Appetit!
Harbinger of summer - some grilled octopus for lunch 🐙
After almost scaling 30 degrees Centigrade on May Day, the recent cyclone with its rain has moved the weather more towards late autumn than summer. Still, one needs to try. So decided on something more summery for lunch, while waiting for the weather to c...
Apart from the time it takes to boil and then cool down the octopus…
It’s actually rather simple and straightforward. Yet very tasty 😋
Not to start off with…
Only after boiling it does it get put into olive oil and if you wish you can add garlic to that. After grilling it you apply some more olive oils, salt, I added some chili and oregano and then a bit of squeezed lemon.
Same here 😂
But as Th e locals are not that great at making it, I needed to try myself 😉👍🏻
That octopus looks smashing!....one of my favourite dish
Have you tried to 'carpaccio' it?the texture and taste might be interesting
That is definitely a factor…
Our daughter remarked in passing that they are very smart animals, which ruined it for my wife. The kids would not touch it (but they do love calamari rings and sepia risotto - go figure). But the frequency of eating octopus has dropped drastically for me...
Having the same trouble with Bluefin Tuna
They are Majestic creatures, I call them the Ferrari of the Sea, also worried about over fishing and over consumption.
Those, too…
With time many previously plentiful species have turned rare and I most certainly have no inclination of eating the last one. Have played with the idea of vegetarianism but where we live the choice of non-meaty foods is so abysmal that while possible, suc...
Thumbs up, Marcus.
I stopped eating those guys several years back. Once I started thinking of them as guys.
The octopuses are rooting for you to switch to cooked beef!
By the way, K, calamari is squid-not octopus. Squid are dumber. So your kids are good.
Cooked beef is really not my favorite 🤷🏻♂️
Grilled or fried maybe but cooked, not so much 🧐
Something white and not too heavy 😁
Now that I know how it goes it’s not difficult to replicate 😉👍🏻
I was considering…
Grilling some halloumi as well as an extra component but it was unnecessary quantity wise. But halloumi also works with peas and sweet potatoes.
The result looks incredible indeed!
I'm sure the taste was wonderful too. We had some grilled octopus recently in Portugal and it was delicious! Cheers, Emmanuel
It is one of those countries…
Where it should be delightful 😊😋 Thanks a lot - and even if I say so myself, both my wife and me enjoyed it a lot 😉
What a wonderful meal cooked at home.
There all kinds of secrets like putting a cork in the water when boiling the octopus. octopus with chorizo octopusy Burger in Corsica. ...
The cork?
Curious to understand what that does 😊🤞🏻 Your pictures look astounding - making me hungry again 😋😋😋
A cork is added to the pot to reduce foam when cooking octopus. ..help tenderize the octopus by breaking down its tough fibers, much like dry aging.
In Portugal and southern Italy, traditional chefs often add wine corks to octopus recipes, claiming that the natural enzymes in the cork help break down the cephalopod's tough tendons by drawing out moisture (a process similar to dry aging).
Will definitely try it next time 😊👍🏻
What the recipe recommended is that with a large octopus one can either do a short freeze or beat it with a meat hammer to tenderize it. Mine was small enough that it wasn’t necessary 👍🏻
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BTW, I know you said it was your first time preparing the Octopus at home. Bravo. Not sure I would do it, more so the intimidation of the raw product ! But I do love to eat it.
There is that element…
Wasn’t planning on it but then saw it at the local fish monger and decided to give it a try 😊👍🏻