How To Cook Octopus Dish?

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Does anyone dare to eat octopus? That animal creature with bald head and sucking tentacles around it.

But first things first, do you know how to cook octopus the easy way? Let's cook octopus dish the Ilocano way. One problem of octopus meat when you cook them unaware of its technique, it become chewy or rubbery. You need all the powers of pressure cooker just to soften the meat.

Of course, who can teach us the best way of cooking octopus if not the people who caught them... fishermen. Unless, you want to eat them raw.

Here is the tip from a fisherman from Santiago, Ilocos Sur: thoroughly clean the pan where you will cook the octopus. Put the octopus, without water, no salt because it has the salt of its own, also no seasoning.

How to cook? Just put the pan in the heat, as it is. The octopus will cook itself. Wait until shiny and brownish. The octopus will produce its own sauce in the pan.

Then, slice to desired pieces, add some onions and other tasty and serve. Simple as that.