Tuna
fish roe is another part of tuna fish that can be
consumed or be used as part of your dish ingredient. You might think that the
usage of tuna roe is not very common, but actually this tuna part is quite
popular since it has great taste. This is why several regions around the world use
tuna roe as part of their dish ingredient. And if you want to experience its
unique taste then you might also want to try out this type of seafood product. But
first let us see what product that you can find on the market which uses fish
roe as the ingredient.
Making Product Using High Quality Tuna Fish
Roe Ingredient
The tuna roe itself is the tuna egg part
which taken from female tuna fish. Then this part can be made into several
products which you can easily find on the market. People usually use that
product to create many kinds of tuna roe dish since it has good flavor and
contains great nutrition for your body. Of course the product sold on the
market has been processed to preserve its quality and freshness. Now let us the
process to make several tuna fish roe product that you can find on the market.
Before making the product, first fishermen
will caught the tuna fish from deep seawater. The tuna fish will then be
delivered to the factory so they can be turn into many kinds of tuna fish
product. After the tuna fish arrived in the factory, then it will be completely
cleaned, gilled and gutted as preparation to make product from the parts. From
this cleaning process, tuna fish roe part is
separated from the tuna fish body and stored separately to be made into other
product.
The tuna roe part is separated together
with its roe pouch to keep it still in good condition. And this tuna roe is the
part that will be turn into several other products which you can see on the
market. The first product is the frozen tuna fish
roe product which is very easy to make since it can use most tuna roe pouch
as the ingredient. To make this product the tuna roe pouch will be cleaned
before being packed individually then frozen so it will maintain its freshness
even after a long time.
The second product is the bottarga tuna fish roe product which is very hard
to make. Furthermore only ripe tuna roe that can be used as the ingredient
which make it even harder to create. The bottarga is very popular tuna roe product
which originates from Spain and Italy, the people in those countries love this
delicacy product very much.
Making process of this bottarga is started
by selecting high quality and ripe tuna roe. To select it, tuna roe pouch is inspect
whether the egg is visible entirely and the color is uniform of not. If the
tuna roe pouch has those two qualities, then it can be use. However if the egg
size is too small then the tuna roe is better used for other product. Tuna roe
which is too watery can still be used even though it will take longer time to
process it.
The first thing that needs to be done to
create the bottarga is massaging the tuna roe pouch to remove air bubble from
inside the pouch. Next is to soak the tuna roe pouch in saltwater for around a
half day. Then the soaked pouch can be dried under the sun using drying panel
which will press on the tuna roe pouch. This drying process is done using
natural way thus make it longer to dry. After the tuna roe pouch is dry, then
it is time to cure it to preserve the quality of the roe. This curing process
should also be done under the sun and it will take weeks to complete. Afterwards
the bottarga end product will be hard slab dried tuna roe pouch that is ready
to be distributed to the market. Sometimes there is variation of bottarga which
also coved by using special beeswax to preserve the tuna fish roe even more. You can use this product for around a year after it
is dried and it is better to store it inside the refrigerator.
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