Octopus Recipes

Try our delicious Octopus recipes!

Wild Spanish Octopus is sourced out of Spain and is available whole, baby, or by the leg. extremely versatile and absorbs flavor of the ingredients that it is being cooked with. It has a sweet, mild taste with a white translucent meat and a medium-firm texture. Delicious boiled, grilled, sauteed, and steamed. 

Stop by the Euclid Fish Retail Market in Mentor, Ohio and pick up some Wild Spanish Octopus. Directions and hours here. 

Mediterranean Octopus Spinach Salad

Ingredients

• Frozen Cooked Octopus Leg
• Baby Spinach
• Feta
• Mediterranean Olive Mix
• Red Peppers
• Corto Truly Virgin Olive Oil
• Balsamic Glaze
• Sourdough Bread

Directions

1. Thaw your Octopus for 30min in room temperature Water.
2. While your Octopus is thawing, cut your peppers and bread in half. Also, dice your feta. Turn on your grill and let it get hot.
3. Then, grill your peppers and bread each side for about 5 seconds for a nice char. Dice your charred peppers.
4. Mix Feta with olives, olive oil and your favorite seasonings.
5. Next, take your thawed cooked Octopus Leg with tongs and char on on the grill for 6 seconds on each side.
6. Slice down the whole leg, then set spinach on a plate laying your peppers, feta olive mixture, octopus and bread.
7. Drizzle extra olive oil and balsamic to top it off and serve.