Mexican style with tomatoes, green and red onion, cucumbers, and cilantro.
Have you ever tried octopus?
It’s fabulous as a side or topped over tacos or tostadas.
Elise Bauer
If you buy a frozen octopus, it has already been cleaned.
removing the beak, the eyes, and the ink sac.
Then remove the octopus from the pot and place to cool on a sheet pan.
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Discard the cooking water.
Discard anything that doesn’t look like meat (innards, beak, etc.)
that somehow slipped by the cleaning process.
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Place the pieces of the octopus on the bed of herbs.
Remove the pieces of octopus to a sheet pan to cool.
(It’s a texture thing.
Elise Bauer
If you don’t mind the texture, don’t worry about it, it tastes good.)
You may also notice small round pieces of meat that sort of look like eyeballs.
They’re not eyeballs, but pieces from the octopus' suction cups on the tentacles.
Elise Bauer
They taste good too, just like the rest of the octopus.
Cut the meat into 1/2-inch pieces.
You should have close to 2 cups of chopped octopus meat.
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Place the chopped octopus into a large, non-reactive bowl.
Add the cucumbers, red onion, scallions, cilantro, dried oregano, and jalapeno.
Cover and chill for 2 hours or overnight.
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