Recipe: Yellowfin Tuna Carpaccio
Yellowfin Tuna Carpaccio with Celeriac, Cucumber, Capers and Nasturium
-raw food-
Serves 4
Ingredients
• 500gm fresh yellowfin tuna, sliced into 2-3mm slices
• 1 cup celeriac, finely shredded and soaked in iced water for 15 minutes
• 1 Lebanese cucumber, finely sliced and soaked in iced water for 15 minutes
• 1 golden shallot, finely sliced
• 2 tbs small capers
• 1 bunch watercress
• 20 small nasturtium leaves
• 50ml white wine vinegar
• 50ml extra virgin olive oil
• 1 tsp whole seed mustard
• salt and pepper
Method
Whisk together the vinegar, mustard and olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Lay the tuna slices over a large platter to cover the whole surface and drizzle with the vinaigrette. Scatter over the shredded celeriac, cucumber slices, shallots, capers, cress and nasturtium leaves.
“Carpaccio” is a dish created at Harry’s Bar in Venice for a customer who was advised by her doctor not to eat cooked meat. The chefs made a dish of finely sliced raw beef simply dressed and named it after Vittore Carpaccio, a Venetian painter whose work featured reddish hues. Using yellowfin tuna gives the same beautiful bright red effect.
