Monday’s Menu: Tuna Tartare, Morrocan eggplant and cumin mayo.
This is easier than it sounds.
And I am sure you could use salmon or lamb instead of tuna.
Adulterated from Good Food where Neil Perry says “The earthy flavours of Moroccan-style eggplant team brilliantly with tuna tartare. Make sure you source a well-rounded and flavoursome chilli oil to finish the tuna dish”.
You need for 4 fashionista or 25 models.
For the eggplant
1 large eggplant
sea salt
2 large ripe truss tomatoes
½ cup extra virgin olive oil, approx
1 handful flat-leaf parsley leaves
½ clove garlic, finely chopped
½ tsp ground cumin
lemon juice, to taste
freshly ground black pepper
For the mayonnaise
⅓ cup mayonnaise
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp Dijon mustard
For the tuna
300g sashimi-grade tuna
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp roasted chilli oil
1 tbsp finely chopped chives
• Slip into Vetements hoodie, ripped jeans and ccommon projects sneakers.
• Pour a gin and tonic.
• Ask Bradley Cooper to chop up garlic and tuna and chives.
• For the eggplant: cut into 1cm slices. Salt well and leave for 1 hour. Wash and pat dry. As you do after a facial.
• Blanch, peel and deseed tomatoes. If you can be bothered. Cut into 1cm dice about the size of a Gucci belt buckle
• Heat half the oil.
• In a large frying pan and fry half the eggplant slices to a deep golden brown as an Hermes wallet, taking care not to burn. The wallet and the eggplant.
• Remove from pan and drain on paper towel to remove excess oil.
• Repeatez with remaining oil and eggplant.
• When eggplant is cool enough to handle like Kanye, roughly chop into 1cm pieces.
• Add parsley leaves to pan and fry very quickly until crisp (stand back, as it will spit like Joan Collins. Bless.).
• Remove and add to eggplant.
• Reduce heat and then add garlic and cumin to pan.
• Cook for 2 minutes then add tomatoes.
• Cook for another 2 minutes then put eggplant and parsley back into pan.
• Cook for 1 minute, then remove from heat.
• Add a dash of extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice to taste and a grind of pepper.
• Check seasoning. Allow to cool.
• For the mayonnaise, whisk all the ingredients together and finish with some lemon juice, to taste.
• Make sure to dice the tuna into ½-1cm pieces.
• Just before serving, season the fish with extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.
• Share the eggplant salad across four chic plates.
• Top with tuna then dollop a spoonful of cumin mayonnaise and drizzle roasted chilli oil around each dish.
• Accessorise with finely chopped chives and serve immediately.
• Yum.