Unrefined · Seafood

24 March 2016

Octopus Pasta Salad

This is a dish which I had while in Mozambique, it was fresh, zingy and packed full of seafood goodness! And, so simple.

Serves
Enough for 6
Prep
25 mins
Cook
20 mins
Total
45 mins
Difficulty
Capable Cooks
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Octopus Pasta Salad, recipe by Hayden Quinn

Ingredients

Peri peri sauce

Method

  1. Follow instructions to prepare you octopus.
  2. In a large bowl, coat your octopus with a drizzle of olive oil along with the crushed garlic. Massage into the octopus. Allow to sit while your barbecue is getting nice and hot.
  3. Onto a hot barbecue add the octopus (remember this is already pre-cooked and you are just looking to get colour on the outside) along with the capsicum.
  4. Once you have a nice colour on both the octopus and the capsicum, remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly. Slice the octopus tentacles into nice thin disks, set aside to be added to the pasta. Cut the capsicum into 2cm chunks and add to the pasta also.
  5. Toss and season with salt, dress well with olive oil and white vinegar. To finish, garnish with parsley and your home made peri peri sauce.
  6. Enjoy with a cold beer and friends this summer….

Watch Hayden make it

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