Taramasalata is a classic Greek appetizer or spread made from salted and cured fish roe, typically cod or carp, mashed with bread or potatoes, and olive oil. The result is a smooth, flavorful dip that can be served with pita bread, crackers, or vegetables. Spring crudites are a selection of fresh, raw vegetables, such as carrots, celery, bell peppers, and radishes, that are served as a healthy snack or appetizer. Combining taramasalata with spring crudites creates a delicious and visually appealing dish that is perfect for parties or gatherings.
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TARAMASALATA
While this is a sturdy and reliable recipe for making the greek cod roe spread called taramasalata from scratch, funnily enough it doesn't call for cod roe. I've come to prefer the commonly available and affordable salmon roe instead. If you are putting together a greek meze plate - with feta and kalamata olives, some marinated octopus and skordalia - save the brine from the feta and use it to season the taramasalata instead of lemon juice and see what you think. It lends a great acidity. Be sure to take the extra step of grating the cooked potato instead of more conveniently throwing it into the food processor and whizzing - to avoid a gluey texture. It'll keep in the fridge for a week and can be used a few ways all summer - add a grated white onion and toss with shaved celery and diced tomatoes as a salad dressing. Or thin with a little of the potato cooking water and some good olive oil and consider it as a sauce for whole grilled fish.
Provided by Gabrielle Hamilton
Categories dips and spreads
Time 15m
Yield A generous 3 cups
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Place roe in the food processor with lemon juice. Microplane the garlic, and tap into the container.
- Purée until smooth and orangy-pink and "creamy."
- Add wet panko and a drizzle of olive oil, and purée until blended, now creamy and viscous.
- Transfer to a bowl, and with a tiny teardrop side of a box grater, grate in the potato. Whisk all together.
- Season with a little salt and more lemon juice to taste.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 233, UnsaturatedFat 2 grams, Carbohydrate 40 grams, Fat 4 grams, Fiber 3 grams, Protein 9 grams, SaturatedFat 1 gram, Sodium 76 milligrams, Sugar 2 grams
TARAMOSALATA
Taramosalata is a classic Greek appetizer (meze). Satisfyingly delicious, it goes a long way as a party nibble and is also nice to have in the fridge for a quick lunch with some olives and a salad on the side. Fish roe is high in Omega 3 and Vitamin B12, and this is a great way to enjoy it.
Provided by Diana Moutsopoulos
Categories Appetizers and Snacks Seafood
Time 20m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Place bread in a bowl, cover with water and let sit until the bread is well soaked, 5 to 10 minutes. Drain water from the bowl and squeeze all of the excess water from the bread.
- Combine bread, olive oil, onion, and lemon juice in a food processor; process until smooth and homogeneous. Add tarama and process until well combined.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 383.2 calories, Carbohydrate 34.7 g, Cholesterol 139.6 mg, Fat 22.5 g, Fiber 2.5 g, Protein 13.4 g, SaturatedFat 3.5 g, Sodium 456 mg, Sugar 3.1 g
TARAMASALATA WITH SPRING CRUDITES
Tarama is salted and cured carp or cod roe used in Greek and Turkish cooking. It ranges in color from orange-red to pale beige and can be found online or at specialty or Mediterranean markets.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Appetizers
Yield Makes 1 cup
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Place roe in a bowl, and cover with cold water. Soak for 10 minutes. Drain in a fine sieve lined with cheesecloth. Rinse in sieve, and drain. Gather cheesecloth around roe, and squeeze out water.
- Meanwhile, place potato in a small saucepan, and add enough cold water to cover by 2 inches. Add salt. Bring to a boil, and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Drain, and let cool.
- Puree roe, potato, lemon juice, and pepper in a food processor. With machine running, add oil, and process until the mixture is smooth. Season with more pepper. Serve with toasts and crudites.
TARAMASALATA
Provided by Food Network
Time 25m
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Run the almond, potatoes and onions through a meat grinder, allowing the mixture to drop into a bowl with a little corn oil at the bottom. Combine the potato mixture with tarama and transfer it to a standing mixing bowl. Fit the mixer with a paddle attachment. Add lemon juice and mix on #2 speed. Add corn oil in a slow steady stream. If mixture gets too thick, ad a splash of seltzer. Continue to add oil until it is fully blended. Add olive oil in slow steady stream. Combine and finish with seltzer until mix is the consistency of light mashed potatoes.
TARAMASALATA, HOMEMADE
You can buy this anywhere, but somehow there is always a slightly artificial flavour to it ... I made this tonight, and it's not too bad. Because Zaar's computer prefers definitive quantities, please see extra notes below. It actually needs a night in the fridge, but I didn't have the time to do that. It will not have the bright pink appearance of the supermarket taramasalata ... and I'm not going to add artificial colour!! Also, this recipe needs to be tasted, and adjusted: I bow to Zaar's computer which wants definite quantities, but the answer is still to taste and adjust. I dislike using potatoes, which gives tarama (to my taste) a rather glutinous taste.
Provided by Zurie
Categories European
Time 15m
Yield 1 cup
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- The computer is at it again. I said "pressed cod roe", because that's what it says on the tin, but it "doesn't recognise" it. It's a firmly compressed, canned, light pink cod roe. So what you need is about 7oz/200g canned cod roe.
- Whirl 2 slices of bread in a processor or blender. I used brown bread, because that's all I had available. Remove and measure 1 cup.
- The usual tin of "pressed cod roe" is solid, so break it up and add to processor. Add bread. Whizz. It will be stiff, so just mix quickly and stop.
- I simply cut 1/3 off a sweet onion and weighed it for Zaar's purposes. You can use any small onion you have available.
- Add the chopped onion, Liquid Smoke, garlic, lemon juice and salt, and whizz again until well mixed.
- Add 2 tablespoons oil first, and see what the texture is like, then add the extra tablespoon.
- *NOTES: We get a highly concentrated hickory smoke "liquid smoke" in a bottle (quite natural, would you believe). It's handy to give that hint of smoke, as I've never been able to find "smoked cod's roe" as some recipes prescribe. If you can't find it, just leave it out.
- Also, most recipes use less roe and much more olive oil and bread, but somehow that would never have worked here. As it is, this taramasalata was still fairly soft after 2 hours in the fridge. I think leaving it overnight would be best: it will firm, and the flavours will mix.
- I kept thinking that lime juice would have been perfect, just a little less than specified, but I didn't have limes.
- Your mixture will probably need more salt. In the end I added more than stated above.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 804.4, Fat 54.8, SaturatedFat 8.8, Cholesterol 742.2, Sodium 1072.5, Carbohydrate 38.6, Fiber 2.5, Sugar 6.7, Protein 48.8
TARAMASALATA
Steps:
- Place roe in a bowl and cover with cold water; soak 10 minutes. Drain in a fine sieve lined with cheesecloth. Rinse; drain again. Gather cheesecloth around roe, and squeeze out as much liquid as possible.
- Meanwhile, cover potato in a saucepan with 2 inches cold water and add 1/2 teaspoon salt. Bring to a boil, and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Drain, and let cool.
- Puree roe, potato, and lemon juice in a food processor. With machine running, add oil and process until smooth. Season with pepper.
- CRUDITÉS
- The dips here are accompanied by spring produce, but nearly any vegetable can be used in a platter of crudités. Serve tender vegetables, such as celery, snap peas, and baby carrots, raw; broccoli, green beans, and cauliflower are better (and lose little nutritional value) when blanched for 2 to 3 minutes in boiling water and then shocked in an ice-water bath.
- Nutrition Information
- (Per 1/4-cup serving)
- Calories: 101
- Saturated Fat: 1g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4.6g
- Cholesterol: 136mg
- Carbohydrates: 3.3g
- Protein: 8.4g
- Sodium: 104mg
- Fiber: .2g
TARAMASALATA
Whip up homemade taramasalata instead of using shop-bought. It's easier than you might think and is a great addition to a grazing platter
Provided by Barney Desmazery
Categories Buffet, Side dish, Snack
Time 20m
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Soak the bread in a bowl of cold water, then squeeze out the excess and tip into a food processor or blender. Cut through the thick skin of the roe lobes, scrape out the soft roe underneath and tip into the food processor with the bread. Add the onion, garlic, lemon juice and a good grind of black pepper, then whizz to a paste.
- With the motor running, gradually drizzle in the olive oil, then the sunflower oil, until everything is incorporated and you have a slightly thicker paste. Scrape the taramasalata into a serving bowl, drizzle with a little more olive oil and serve with toasted pittas for dipping.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 233 calories, Fat 20 grams fat, SaturatedFat 3 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 6 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 1 grams sugar, Fiber 1 grams fiber, Protein 7 grams protein, Sodium 0.22 milligram of sodium
TWO DIPS FOR CRUDITéS
Steps:
- Yellow Split Pea Dip
- Wrap carrots, celery, white onion, herbs, and peppercorns into a bundle; tie with kitchen twine.
- Combine split peas with the water, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and herb bundle in a saucepan. Bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer; cook until split peas are tender, about 45 minutes. Discard bundle. Reserve 1/2 cup cooking liquid. Drain split peas; let cool slightly.
- Puree split peas, lemon juice, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 cup reserved cooking liquid in a food processor until smooth, adding more liquid as needed. To serve, drizzle spread with oil, top with red onion and capers, and season with pepper.
- Taramasalata
- Place roe in a bowl and cover with cold water; soak 10 minutes. Drain in a fine sieve lined with cheesecloth. Rinse; drain again. Gather cheesecloth around roe, and squeeze out as much liquid as possible.
- Meanwhile, cover potato in a saucepan with 2 inches cold water and add 1/2 teaspoon salt. Bring to a boil, and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Drain, and let cool.
- Puree roe, potato, and lemon juice in a food processor. With machine running, add oil and process until smooth. Season with pepper.
- CRUDITÉS
- The dips here are accompanied by spring produce, but nearly any vegetable can be used in a platter of crudités. Serve tender vegetables, such as celery, snap peas, and baby carrots, raw; broccoli, green beans,and cauliflower are better (and lose little nutritional value) when blanched for 2 to 3 minutes in boiling water and then shocked in an ice-water bath.
- Nutrition Information
- YELLOW SPLIT PEA DIP
- (Per 1/4-cup serving)
- Calories: 124
- Saturated Fat: .5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3g
- Cholesterol: 0mg
- Carbohydrates: 17g
- Protein: 6.54g
- Sodium: 408mg
- Fiber: .2g
- TARAMASALATA
- (Per 1/4-cup serving)
- Calories: 101
- Saturated Fat: 1g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4.6g
- Cholesterol: 136mg
- Carbohydrates: 3.3g
- Protein: 8.4g
- Sodium: 104mg
- Fiber: .2g
Tips:
- Choose the freshest ingredients possible. This will ensure that your taramasalata is flavorful and delicious.
- Don't over-process the taramasalata. Over-processing will make it too smooth and fluffy, and it will lose its characteristic texture.
- Serve the taramasalata immediately or chill it for a few hours before serving. This will allow the flavors to meld and develop.
- Garnish the taramasalata with chopped herbs, olives, or capers. This will add a pop of color and flavor.
- Serve the taramasalata with pita bread, crackers, or vegetables. This will make it a perfect appetizer or snack.
Conclusion:
Taramasalata is a delicious and versatile dish that can be enjoyed as an appetizer, snack, or side dish. It is easy to make and can be made ahead of time. With its creamy texture and smoky flavor, taramasalata is sure to be a hit at your next party or gathering.
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