How To Cook Octopus

As i ve written before a pressure cooker is an excellent way to speed up the cooking time of octopus.

How to cook octopus. Bring the stock to a boil. Step 2 braise octopus. Fill a stockpot with water and aromatics.

Step 3 marinate octopus to serve. Add enough water to a large stockpot to fill it at least 2 3 high. Cook until octopus is tender enough that you can pierce the thick part of a tentacle with a paring knife with little resistance about 1 hour.

It s important that the water is turned down to a gentle simmer once the octopus is in the pan. Cooking your octopus grilling. Boil some salted water with some herbs bay leaves coriander seeds few cloves of whole.

Heat the stockpot over high heat until a rolling boil develops. Add all the tentacles and body. Add the octopus reduce the heat immediately and simmer gently for 45 60 minutes.

Bring water to a simmer then lower heat to maintain simmer. By trapping steam and raising the pressure inside the cooker and therefore raising the boiling point of the water as well you can cook octopus much more quickly than at a standard sea level boil of 212 f 100 c. Fill a saucepan with salted water and bring to the boil.

Though roasting an octopus to tender perfection takes some extra time and labor in the end it will be well. For another low and slow. The most basic way of cooking octopus is to simmer it in liquid.