baby octopus salad with jalapeno lime vinaigrette

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We hear them… sayin’

How you get a rude and a-reckless?

Don’t you be so crude and a feckless

You been drinking brew for breakfast

Rudie can’t fail, no, nooo

“Rudie Can’t Fail” by The Clash

My second informative video!  I went to my fish monger looking for calmari to make a grilled salad.  The fish man told me they were sold out of calamari but he did have some baby octopus.  He showed me how to clean them out and ensured me the flavor was similar.  He was right, the salad was great and the baby octopus were not very hard to clean.  Humor me by checking out round two of my low budget seafood cleaning movies.

Ingredients:

1 lb baby octopus, cleaned and split into head and tentacle (see below for my informative video)
1/4 cup olive oil plus 1/2 cup of olive oil
1 clove of garlic, minced
1/2 red onion, chopped and soaked in ice water for 30 minutes (removes the bite)
1/2 of cucumber, chopped
1/2 container cherry tomatoes, halved
1 jalapeno, minced
4 limes, juiced
2 tablespoons brown sugar
Salt and pepper

Directions:

1. Marinate octopus with olive oil,  garlic, and 1 teaspoon salt and pepper to taste, let sit in fridge for 1 hour
2. Meanwhile, make the vinaigrette in a small bowl whisk jalapeno, lime juice, brown sugar, salt and pepper to taste
3. Slowly drizzle and whisk ½ cup olive oil into the jalapeno lime mixture, set vinaigrette aside
4.Preheat grill or grill pan
5. Remove octopus from the fridge and grill for no more than five minutes, place immediately in the fridge to cool down
6. Combine cooled octopus, onion, cucumber, and tomato
7. Slowly add the vinaigrette to the salad, you probably won’t use all of it

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