Recipes: Smoked Tuna in Azorean Tea with Sesame Seeds, Dried Figs and Pineapple Chutney

Ingredients

  • Smoked Tuna in Azorean Tea with Sesame Seeds

    • 500 grs /1lbs., 1.6 oz. Bonito
    • 40 grs / 1.4 oz. Sesame seeds
    • 300 grs / 10.6 oz. Herbal Salt
    • 50 grs / 1.8 oz. Tea from the Azores
    • 100 grs / 3.5 oz. Raw Rice
    • 100 grs / 3.5 oz. Flour
  • Dried Figs and Pineapple Chutney

    • 40 Dried Figs
    • 150 grs / 5.3 oz. Onions
    • 150 grs / Pineapple
    • 100 /3.5 oz. Butter
    • 200 ml / 7 oz. Lajido Wine (dry fortified wine)
    • To taste Cider Vinegar
    • To taste salt
    • To taste Pepper

Preparation:

Smoked Tuna in Azorean Tea with Sesame Seeds:

Start by cleaning your tuna and cut in desired shapes. Cover tuna with salt and let stand for 10 minutes. Clean the salt tuna and blushing. On a board put the tea, rice and flour and bring the tuna to be smoked in this mixture for 10 minutes. Garnish with sesame seeds.

Dried Figs and Pineapple Chutney:

Start by marinating the figs in lajido by 3:0. Saute onions in butter and add the figs, pineapple into cubes and cook. Finally add the Apple Cider vinegar and season with salt and pepper.