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Taramasalata
Anybody know if we are allowed this? i know its made from some kind of fish but im not sure of the other ingrediants.
Many thanks in advance
Many thanks in advance
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Re: Taramasalata
All you need is fish roe (I use carp, because I find it easier to handle than herring), oil, lemon juice and hot water.
Start with 100 g of fish roe, add oil slowly (!) and mix (I use a wood spoon, but you can also use a mixer), like you would when making mayo. To 100 g of roe, I add about 25 ml of olive oil. Be careful not to break the emulsion! You should mix only in one direction.
Then start alternating between adding 1 tsp of hot water, 1 tsp of oil, 1 tsp of lemon juice... and taste it from time to time, to see when you should stop. I usually add another 25-40 ml of olive oil (so 50-65 ml in total), 2 tbsp of lemon juice and 2 tbsp of water. The hot water and lemon juice will make the salad white and "fluffy".
When this is done, you can add chopped onion and/or garlic to it. I prefer them with onion. They are pretty salty (from the fish roe), so I sometimes mix them with things like chopped sautéed mushrooms, for example. If you add mushrooms, sautée them in oil, not butter. I don't know why, but the salad had a funny texture when I used mushrooms sautéed in butter.
Sometimes when I buy fish roe, there is some skin-like stuff in them (it rarely happens they have none)... so I move them around with a fork to remove the skin before I start adding oil.
Anyway, made this way the salad will not be as thick as the one you buy at the store. I'm not sure how/if you can make it that thick... When Mom makes taramasalata, she adds grits (I think) to thicken it."Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
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Re: Taramasalata
The stuff I find in Germany has mysterious ingredients in it (half of which I don't understand
). I'm not sure what you can find in the UK.
Maybe you can use a small blender to make it? I never tried it that way, so I'm not sure it would work."Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
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