Bottarga

Poutargue

What it is

Mullet roe salted, pressed and air-dried into an amber ingot — a technique the Phoenicians carried across the Mediterranean three thousand years ago. Sardinia grates its “Mediterranean caviar” over pasta; Martigues, near Marseille, guards its own as le caviar provençal.

In the kitchen

Shave it paper-thin or grate it at the very end, never cooked. With lemon, olive oil and raw celery, it needs exactly nothing else.

Goes with

Lemon Olive oil Garlic Celery Egg

Same species

Grey mullet

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