Seared tuna, avocado, tomato, onions, macadamia nuts and sprouts

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Ingredients for 4 people:
480 g tuna steak red or yellow fin fresh
1 hard red tomato
1 ripe avocado
¼ onion
50 g toasted and coarsely chopped macadamia
80 g alfalfa sprouts
10 ml apple cider vinegar
maldon salt
extra virgin olive oil

Breaking down the tuna at -20˚C for at least 24 hours. This precaution should be taken for all the fish dishes that will be served raw or partially cooked.
Decongelarlo in the refrigerator.
Blanch the tomatoes for 12 seconds and cool in ice water. Peel it, cut it in half, remove seeds and cut into small squares regular. Season with a pinch of salt and a little oil.
Halve the avocado. Remove the stones. Pull out all the pulp and place in a bowl. With the help of a fork, mash the pulp, season with salt and very little oil, creating a smooth cream and dense.
Peel the onion and cut finely julienne. Put it in a container and add the apple cider vinegar. Allow the onion to marinate for an hour, then drain it.
Take the tuna steak, cut into 4 strips as regular as possible and dress with extra virgin olive oil.
Heat a non-stick pan and lay the strips of tuna. Leave them for a little over a minute, then turn them from the opposite side. Leave this part for a minute. Remove from heat and cut the tuna into cubes, (at least 5 per strip).
Arrange for each dish 5 tufts of cream of avocado, place the tuna, above which will put the diced tomatoes, onion, sprouts and macadamia.
Finish with a drizzle of olive oil and a bit ‘of Maldon salt.

Tris Turrets Eggplants

This recipe is from our friend Elisa Giannini who already collaborated with pescenudo.it proposing another recipe: Salmon Salad with Red Fruits.
His idea was to create three different “turrets” using as a main element the eggplant, sliced and grilled or pan combining to each, fish and flavorings.
The result is looks delicious and very tasty!

Let’s see how you do!

Tower of the Swordfish and Eggplant Borage

melanzane e mozzarellaIngredients:
round eggplants
stracciatella or squacquerone
swordfish
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
purple basil
peppermint
borage flowers
thyme cedrino
salt

Wash and cut the eggplant into thin slices, salt them, pressing them lightly and let stand. Smear them with olive oil and grilled pass.
The swordfish has to be pasteurized, then cut into thin slices and marinated for a couple of hours in an emulsion of extra virgin olive oil, black basil and peppermint
Starting with the first layer by placing a slice of eggplant, then the stracciatella or squaquerone, then the sword. Alternating with the swordfish carpaccio. Create multiple layers. Finish with borage flowers and sprigs of thyme cedrino.

Tower Eggplant, Burrata, pepper and Creole Flowers.

torrette di melanzana

Ingredients:
round eggplants
burrata
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Creole pepper
edible flowers
maple syrup
mint
salt

Wash and cut the eggplant into thin slices, salt them, pressing them lightly and let stand. Anoint them and pass them on the grill.
Put on the base of the pot a few sprigs of mint to scent.
Alternate slices of eggplant with burrata and a little pepper and Creole complete with maple syrup poured over before putting the flowers.

Turret of eggplants, Salmon, Dates, and Pane Carasau

torretta melanzana

Ingredients:
round eggplants
smoked salmon
dates
lime
acacia honey
mint
sugar cane
carasau
salt
pepper

Wash and cut the eggplant into thin slices, salt them, pressing them lightly and let stand. Anoint them and pass them on the grill.
Mix the salmon, cut into small squares, to small pieces of dates marinated in lime, acacia honey, brown sugar, salt and pepper. Place the first slice of grilled eggplant on a slice of bread carasau.
Then Alternate the salmon with other eggplant slices and a sprig of mint.
Complete with a little grating of lime .

Thank you again for your time Elisa!

Salmon and red fruits

This is a colorful recipe from a friend: Elisa Giannini.
The look is very inviting, taste fresh, different and interesting … a dish to try!
macedonia

Ingredients for 4 people:
480 g of fresh salmon fillet
Seasoning for salmon:
5 g karkadé powder
5 g sugar (a teaspoon)
1/2 lime
salt
4 pink pepper chopped
extra virgin olive oil
For the sauce:
50 g of strawberries
10 ml of balsamic vinegar
8 pink pepper berries
extra virgin olive oil
salt
For the garnish:
a basket of fresh currants
fresh thyme
extra virgin olive oil
15 g honey

After barbed and eliminated the skin of salmon, wrap well with plastic wrap and bring it down for at least 48 hours at a temperature of at least -18˚ C.
Defrost the salmon in the refrigerator.
Cut into cubes not too small.
Wash and dry the strawberries, remove stem and blend them with the balsamic vinegar and pink pepper berries; salt and filtered. Store in refrigerator.
Wash and shell the currants. Season with honey, a little oil and fresh thyme. Store in refrigerator.
Mix together the ingredients for the dressing of the salmon to obtain an emulsion. Season the salmon tartare and divide into 8 cylindrical molds. Arrange the tartare on 4 plates (2 per person).
Garnish the surface with red currants, like in the picture.
Strain the sauce to the coffins of salmon.
Complete with a few drops of oil.

Thank you again Elisa for having proposed this recipe … We are waiting for more recipes !!!

Raw shrimps, kumquat and liquorice

mazzancolle crude

Ingredients for 4 people:
12 fresh shrimp
6 Kumquat (kumquats)
licorice powder Amarelli

Delete the head of the shrimp; peel and making a slight incision on the back, remove the intestines.
Cut the tails of shrimp into small pieces and place them in random order on 4 plates.
Cut kumquats into very thin slices, removing the seeds.
Arrange the slices of kumquats on to pieces of prawn.
Spread a thin layer of liquorice.