How To Prepare Octopus For Eating

Cooking your octopus grilling.

How to prepare octopus for eating. Heat the stockpot over high heat until a rolling boil develops. Boil some salted water with some herbs bay leaves coriander seeds few cloves of whole garlic and dip the octopus in a few times to let the tentacles curl up the spanish do this to tenderise but i do it so the tentacles are nice an neat. You can eat as is by cutting individual portions or bake with onions and peppers and some olive oil.

Bring the stock to a boil. Fill a stockpot with water and aromatics. For another low and slow.

Drop the octopus into a saucepan of unsalted boiling water or better still steam it. Don t bother salting it because you will not be cooking the octopus in the water very long. Add all the tentacles and body.

Companies pre cook octopus often because it is easier for chefs and home cooks to manage it. Your octopus should boil for about 45 minutes then turn off heat and let it sit in the water for another 20 minutes. Then bring a large pot of water to a rolling boil.

Add the octopus reduce the heat immediately and simmer gently for 45 60 minutes. Anatomically an octopus is intimidating. The most basic way of cooking octopus is to simmer it in liquid.

Follow the video below. Though roasting an octopus to tender perfection takes some extra time and labor in the end it will be well. When ready to cook boil water in a large pan with 1 onion.