Toro of Southern Bluefin Tuna with Jamón Ibérico de Bellota and Egg White Pearl Flowers

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Complex

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By Peter Gilmore

Published 2010

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The toro and jamón have a very similar amount of interspersed fat content, giving each ingredient a very similar, rich mouthfeel. This is the reason for putting these two seemingly diverse ingredients together: they play off each other well. Their flavours are rounded out with a little heat from the juniper and horseradish cream, nasturtiums, peppery watercress and radish. The smokiness of the egg white, eel and celeriac flowers and the nuttiness of the hazelnuts really complement the flavo