Crudo of Leatherjacket

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    as an appetiser
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Sydney Seafood School Cookbook

By Roberta Muir

Published 2012

  • About

Leatherjacket is related to Japan’s highly prized fugu fish, but comes without the risk of poisoning. Tetsuya Wakuda presented this recipe in a Seafood School class in 1997, saying that when he first arrived in Australia and tasted leatherjacket, he loved it because it was so similar to fugu in taste and texture, but all the Australians he knew said, ‘Mate, you don’t eat that, it’s bait!’. Many people still h