How many recipes do we have?
The Octopus meal can come in different varieties. Depending on the targeted customers of a restaurant where an Octopus meal is served, or the taste bud of the family that wants to have Octopus in their lunch food, the list of ingredients used will continue to change. There are different Octopus recipe out there, and you can either learn the existing secret to prepare your meal or otherwise, use these ideas to formulate your own secret recipe.
Some of the ultimate Octopus recipes that we know
There are a number of recipes out there, and the ones that many chefs have confirmed to be highly demanded by customers are as follows:
- Easy Grilled Octopus Recipe: this is an amazing recipe that brings a lightly seasoned and scorched octopus to the table. The best way to go about this is to start by boiling the octopus first till it cools down to room temperature, grilling it immediately after. The kind of seasonings this goes with are olive oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper, dried Oregon, fresh parsley and garlic. Adding these all up to the grilled octopus brings a yummy meal to the table. Quite easy?
- BBQ Greek Style Octopus: This is another recipe that is worth trying out. This easy to prepare octopus meal that comes out deliciously can be boiled together with vinegar, wine, some leaves, and peppercorn. The octopus is usually removed from the boil after cooking, and it’s allowed to cool before mixing some marinade ingredient with it. After this process is done, the preparer usually places the marinated octopus with a prepared BBQ to cook until it gets crispy on all side. The meal is finally placed with some salad. One can get the full recipe of this with West Australian Octopus.
- Octopus with Chili Rice: This is yet another excellent dish that is highly recommended for those that love the spicy meal. To spice up the family hangout with this Octopus recipe, start by combining tomatoes, onion, garlic, bay leaf and your octopus in the water for it to steam. The octopus will then be stirred with cooked rice after the black skin has been removed and the preparer has cut the octopus into desired sizes. The whole of it is returned into the cooker to steam together for another few minutes. After is all done and ready to serve, the final part of the secret is to sprinkle some coriander and chili to spice the meal. There you have it!
There are still bunches of other recipes for octopus, and more secret ingredients and recipes are continuously discovered by chefs of different restaurants and lovers of this delicious meal in their homes. Apart from the listed recipes, the other common ones that are popular with Octopus lovers are the Octopus salad, pickled octopus, Octopus chorizo and potatoes, Octopus salad with potatoes and green beans, and the list goes on like that. You never can know what you are missing until you taste another recipe!