How to Boil a Whole Raw Octopus!
How to Boil a Whole Raw Octopus!

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Fill a pot large enough to hold the octopus with the octopus and enough cold water to cover. Bring water to a simmer, then lower heat to maintain simmer. When the tentacles have rolled up cutely, put the whole thing in the boiling water. You can adjust the boiling time, but if you boil it for too long it will become tough.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have how to boil a whole raw octopus! using 3 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make How to Boil a Whole Raw Octopus!:
  1. Take 1 Raw octopus
  2. Prepare 200 ml Salt
  3. Get 1 Bancha green tea (optional)

In the case of baby octopus, most people ask how you get the tentacles to roll up nicely, and how long to boil octopus to make it tender. Choose a pot according to the size of octopus you have. Fill it with water and put it on the high heat to boil. Put carefully prepared octopus into boiling water and wait when water reboils.

Instructions to make How to Boil a Whole Raw Octopus!:
  1. There are different kinds of octopus, but I'm not sure if this is a madako type… I'm a Hakotade native, which is prominent for squid, so I'm not too sure about octopus varieties.
  2. This is a photo of the suckers. Unnecessary?
  3. If you buy an octopus from a fishmonger, the insides of the head, the eyes and the beak will most likely be removed.
  4. Place the octopus on a sieve, add lots of salt and rub in with both hands to clean. Enjoy the feeling of the suckers sticking to your hands!
  5. Apparently fishermen put an octopus in a plastic bag with salt, and spin it for 45 minutes in a washing machine. Think of emulating that as you rub that beast very, very well.
  6. When it's no longer slimy, rinse well in water.
  7. I heard that the octopus becomes tender if you bash with a daikon radish so I tried it out, but there wasn't a lot of difference between an un-bashed tentacle. In any case, the octopus did becomes somewhat tender.
  8. A sushi chef told me that if you boil octopus with bancha green tea, it adds color, the skin doesn't peel off easily, and that the texture of the flesh is improved, so I tried out the tip.
  9. The key to making the legs roll up nicely is to submerge in the boiling water tentacle first, take out, putting back in, and repeating several times.
  10. When the tentacles have rolled up cutely, put the whole thing in the boiling water.
  11. You can adjust the boiling time, but if you boil it for too long it will become tough. I boiled a 1.2 kg octopus for about 5 minutes.
  12. Take it out when it's boiled, place in a sieve and cool under running water.
  13. Cool down quickly in ice water, until it's no longer warm when you touch it.
  14. Chop off the tentacles one by one.
  15. The head. The mouth is cute!
  16. After a 5 minute boil, the texture is like this. I think it's perfect for sashimi or carpaccio.
  17. As long as you rub it very well with salt until it's no longer slimy, I think it's hard to screw up.
  18. Enjoy as sashimi and carpaccio, and use the rest in simmered dishes and enjoy!

Fill it with water and put it on the high heat to boil. Put carefully prepared octopus into boiling water and wait when water reboils. Heat the stockpot over high heat until a rolling boil develops. Freezing octopus two days before preparing it will be enough, and one day before boiling it you must take it out of the freezer so it's completely thawed. To do this, put it. - Drop the octopus into a saucepan of unsalted boiling water or, better still, steam it.

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