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Salmon tartar photo: ©️Nel Brouwer-van den Bergh

Salmon tartar

Prep Time 40 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course Appetizer, Lunch
Cuisine Japanese, Peruvian
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

Ingredients for the dish

  • 10.7 oz (300 g) salmon deboned
  • 1 tbsp+ 1 tsp (20 ml) lemon juice
  • 1/4 tsp chilli powder
  • 1/4 tsp white pepper
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp fresh coriander or parsley leaves
  • 3 quail eggs
  • 1 tbsp capers
  • 1 tbsp gurkins
  • 1 small shallot

Instructions
 

Instructions to make the dish

  • Let the fish thaw in the refrigerator or in cold water, keeping the temperature below 5 C.
  • Slice the salmon with a sharp knife in shredded 1-2 cm pieces of length with 2 mm x 2 mm thickness. Put these in a small bowl, compact it a little and place in the refrigerator on ice
  • Then prepare the following additives: a raw quail egg; about 20 ml of lemon juice, diced shallots, salt; pepper, chilli powder, very finely sliced capers; very finely sliced gurkins, finely sliced coriander leaves or parsley leaves, some crumbled cooked egg white and egg yellow from the other two quail eggs
  • Right before serving, place the bowl with cut salmon up-side down on the center of a large plate, place all the solid ingredients in small heaps around it and bring the cut raw quail egg and the lime juice to the table. Mix all at the table and let sit for a few minutes
  • Thereafter serve and preferably eat with chopsticks.

Notes

Method:  no heat treatment - treatment by an acid
Food allergy & intolerance information: fish