Octopus with Marinated Watermelon

1. Boil 3 1/2 l of water and boil the squid with onion quarters, garlic and celery for 1 hour and a half until soft. For 2 smaller ones, reduce the cooking time by 20 min. If the octopus floats up, simply weigh it down with a plate. Then cool covered with cooking water. Prepared this way, it will keep, refrigerated, for 2 days.

2. bring vinegar and 3/8 tsp. Sezchuan pepper to a boil once in a small saucepan and set aside. Peel watermelon, cut watermelon flesh into 48 rectangular pieces – about 3 cm long and 0, 5 cm wide – place in a suitable bowl and set aside in the refrigerator. Put the remaining watermelon flesh with the vinegar in a blender form and grind finely. You will get about 1 l of liquid. Transfer all of this to a saucepan, add 1 tablespoon of mirin, bring to a boil and simmer gently for 30 minutes. Every few minutes, skim the solids from the surface.

Then strain the liquid through a fine sieve into a small baking dish. You should now have only about 500 ml of liquid. Season this with lime juice and the remaining pepper and a little salt, place in a suitable bowl with ice and chill quickly or place briefly in the freezer, then pour over the watermelon pieces and place in the refrigerator.

Bring the remaining mirin to the boil in a small saucepan and reduce by half. Soy sauce u

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