Salmon tartare

Lohitartari

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Food and Cooking of Finland: Traditions, Ingredients, Tastes and Techniques in Over 60 Classic Recipes

By Anja Hill

Published 2007

  • About

The base for this dish and for the Salmon Bake recipe is a lightly salted version of gravlax, the Scandinavian dish of salmon marinated with dill. Steak Tartare is a well-known dish, consisting of finely chopped, raw beef steak mixed with capers, gherkins and anchovy, and served with raw egg yolk nestled in a dip in the centre. The name “tartare” can, however, be applied to any uncooked and chopped dish, including fish. Here, the pressing process acts in a similar way to the cold-smoking of