Ahtapot Salatasi — an octopus salad — can give a dinner a real zest. This Cypriot salad is usually served with bread and butter.
Ingredients
Octopus: 300 gr
Water: 1,5 litre
Green onion: 100-150 gr
1-2 garden onions
2-3 tomatoes
Sugar: 4 tablespoons
Olive oil: 2 tablespoons
Chopped parsley: 2 tablespoons
Capers: 2 tablespoons
Salt: 1 tablespoons
Lemon juice: 4 tablespoons
Pepper: to taste
Cooking method
Clean and wash an octopus, then cut it into large pieces and boil in salted water for 40-50 minutes. While cooked octopus is draining, peel and cut tomatoes, green and garden onions. Then cut octopus, mix the ingredients in a large bowl, add chopped parsley and capers.
To make dressing mix olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper in a separate dish.