Octopus Steakhouse style
Grilled skewer of tender octopus and paper-thin lardo, served with a powerful sauce of beef garum, demi-glace, honey, and grilled lemon.Ingredients
80gOlive oil
4Lemons
400gOctopus
150gLardo
50gOlive oil
60gDemi-glace
75gJuice of grilled lemon
30gBeef garum
Salt
40gWater
20gHoney
Butter (cold)
Preparation
- Cut the lemons into quarters. Reserve four wedges for plating and do not squeeze them.
- Roast the remaining lemon wedges with a blowtorch or on the BBQ. Squeeze them while warm and strain the juice to remove seeds and membranes.
- Cut the octopus to the desired size.
- Slice the lardo paper-thin and fold the slices in half.
- Thread the octopus and lardo alternately onto the skewer, ending with a slice of lardo.
- Drizzle the skewers with olive oil.
- Grill the skewers.
- Mix the grilled lemon juice with the honey and the demi-glace.
- Add the beef garum and emulsify the sauce cold with the olive oil.
- If necessary, dilute the sauce with the water.
- Heat the sauce before serving and finally emulsify it with a knob of cold butter.
- Season with salt if necessary.




