OCTOPUS SALAD

I tried the recipes from a burmese very thick cookery book as a gift for me from my daughter's friend.This is one of the recipes.Simple way of cooking and yummy.I left out the onion and crisp fried garlic for the photo.

OCTOPUS SALAD

Ingredients;
300g small octopus ( or squid)
2 tsp ginger juice
7 green bird eye's chillies
1 medium red onion,peeled and cut into thin half moon
1 tbsp lime juice
1/2 tsp blackpepper corns,crushed
1 tbsp crisp fried garlic plus 2 tsp oil
salt and sugar for seasoning

Ingredients;
1.cut and clean the octopus,slice thinly,marinate with the ginger juice,1/4 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp sugar for 20 minutes.kept aside.
2.heat a saucepan over medium hight heat,once smoking,drop the marinade octopus with the bird eye chillies
, which you must first prick,until cooked and scorched in parts,about 3-4 minutes.
3.pound the grilled chilies with a peastle and mortar with the remaining green bied eye chilli with 1/4 tsp salt and 1/4 tsp sugar.Add this hot green paste to the rilled octopus.
4.Soaked the red onion in cold water for 5 minutes.drain,squeeze them dry and add them,along with the lime juice,black peppercorn and garlic infused oil to the grilled octopus.place on the place,sprinkle with crisp fried garlic chips.Note; when deep fried the garlic until golden and crispy,dish out.keep the oil