This dish is hugely popular wherever I cook. Magically, it\u2019s light and rich at the same time, and the bright flavors of toasted sesame, soy and pickled ginger are refreshing with the ice-cold fish. In my restaurant, we kept salad plates in the refrigerator; if you\u2019ve never tried this at home, do. There\u2019s really something special about enjoying crisp greens or, in this case, raw fish from an icy surface, and that doesn\u2019t have to be a plate. I\u2019ve served food on cold blocks of Himalayan pink salt, terra cotta tile, glass and slate.<\/p>\n
Offer some wasabi on the side if you like a blast of head-clearing heat. A note about the fish: Choosing a sustainable, ethical fish is getting more and more difficult. For this recipe, stick with something fairly safe and uncomplicated, such as wild-caught Arctic char or Canadian-farmed trout. Salmon trout has a rich, fatty flesh, very close to its namesake.<\/p>\n
Yield:<\/b> 2 Servings<\/p>\n Into a nonreactive bowl, add the fish, scallions, cucumber, ginger, soy sauce, mirin, sesame oil, vinegar and sesame seeds. Stir together to blend, then cover and pop back into the refrigerator to chill before serving.<\/p>\n While the tartare is chilling, mix together the vanilla sugar and wasabi powder in a small dish; set aside.<\/p>\n When it\u2019s time to serve, place the tartare on a chilled platter and make a depression in the center to cradle the yolk. Slip the yolk into the depression, top the yolk with the sugar wasabi mixture and br\u00fbl\u00e9e with a kitchen torch.<\/p>\n Serve immediately with something crisp, such as Japanese rice crackers, toasted baguette or deep-fried wonton wrappers. This dish is made even more special when served with a little chilled sake or Japanese plum wine on ice.<\/p>\n This story originally appeared in the November\/December 2017 issue of<\/i> Chickens magazine.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This dish is light and rich at the same time, featuring the flavors of toasted sesame and pickled ginger along with fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":50465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nIngredients<\/h2>\n
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