Frozen
tuna roe is another tuna fish product that you can
use as ingredient for your dish. Although you might not feel familiar with this
tuna fish product, but actually this product is very popular product especially
in several parts of the world. In several parts of the world this product is
even considered as a delicacy and serves regularly. Since it has a good taste,
you might want to try to add this ingredient on your dish to experience its
unique taste. Now, if you want to know more about this frozen tuna product
variation, then let us discuss it further.
Frozen Tuna Roe and Bottarga Delicacy
Product
If you wondering what the tuna roe is, then
you should know that it is the fish egg which comes from female tuna which
turned into seafood product. Since it contains high nutrient, then you should
not doubt when using this ingredient as the nutrient source on your dish.
Especially since this seawater fish product also have great taste. But you
might want to know how the product can still maintain its good taste and
quality even after a few times. That is why you should know the method which
used to create the frozen tuna roe product.
Since the product is made using tuna, then
first the tuna fish will be caught in the sea then freeze to preserve its
freshness while brought into the factory which will process them further. In
the factory, the worker will start to clean the tuna fish, thus it will be
gill, gut, and stripped from its head, tails, and any other unwanted parts. In
this process, the tuna roe is taken from the tuna fish to be separated and
turned into frozen tuna roe product. Meanwhile
the tuna meat itself will be cut to process it further to be other kinds of tuna
product.
For the making process of tuna roe product,
the tuna roe will be separated together with its pouch. This tuna roe pouch is
the one that will be used to make different kinds of tuna roe product you can
see on the market. First of course, the easiest kind which is the frozen tuna roe product which is pretty easy to
make. The process needed to create this product is only to clean and pack the
tuna roe individually, before being frozen to preserve its freshness. The
second kind is the hardest tuna roe product to make which is the bottarga. This
product is actually preserved tuna roe product which very common in Italy and
Spain region as a day to make their favorite delicacy.
Making bottarga itself is hard because it
will take weeks to complete it. Furthermore only ripe tuna roe that can be made
into bottarga thus the ingredient is really special. To know which tuna roe
that is already ripe, the egg should be visible inside the pouch and it should
also have uniform color. When the egg inside the pouch is too watery, it can
still be used but it will take even longer time to complete the making process.
However, for pouch that have eggs which are too small in size thus you cannot
see the egg directly, then it is better to use it for other product since it
cannot be made into bottarga frozen tuna roe.
After the right tuna roe pouch is obtained,
then it will be massage to remove airbags from inside the pouch. Next is to
soak the tuna roe pouch overnight with saltwater before doing the drying
process. The drying process is done using panels to press the tuna roe pouch
while being dried under the sun. This drying process is done using natural way
thus it takes quite some times for the tuna roe pouch to dry. When it is dry,
then it will be cured to preserve the taste and quality of the frozen tuna roe. It will still be dried under the
sun to complete the preserving and curing process.
As you see, the making process of bottarga
is done using natural sunlight which is why; it takes weeks to complete the
whole process. Some bottarga will also be covered with special kinds of beeswax
to make this frozen tuna roe even
more special by turn it into bottarga sausage.
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