Anyone make a real Greek taramasalata...with the real ingredients?

joanietoo

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I'd love a recipe. Always stopped at one particular cafe in Cape Town where we bought the best ever. Long since gone I've tried various recipes and never quite matched the good stuff. (I think he must have used sourdough type bread.)

 
No recipe, joanie2, but hearty agreement as to the wonders of good taramasalata. My favorite...

...family-run Greek place (Golden Greek in Glendale, for Scott and Mia, et.al.) makes a superb taramasalata. Creamy, tangy, salty, light, and ooooh so good with freshly baked pita.

Gotta go. They took July off, so they're back!

Michael

 
Here's a weird one. I wnet to a big Easter brunch many moons ago. There was the best taramasata.

Seemed no one was trying it. I felt bad for the chef, actually. So at the end of the day, when I was about to drag my butt out of there, there was this enormous whack of it left over. I encountered someone who had tried it and did like it.

So I extolled its virtues to the chef and talked him into giving all of it to me, plus what he had in the kitchen, in exchange for my making a contribution to the humane society. (It was a small community). I took it home, packaged it into bits and sold every tub of it to neighbours for their contributions as well. So I can say, animals like taramasalata, too. They made a good haul that day. And everybody was happy.

I did get the recipe. Haven't ever made it. But I will make an effort to find it.

 
Thanks Gay, that looks very interesting,.....

though I'm sure no almonds are used in the Greek tarma. I'll put this on my to try list.

 
This is the sort of recipe I generally use..made this one too...it must be the bread or perhaps ...

The roe....I just don't know.

Ingredients
4 Slices Stale Bread, 1 Small Onion, 2 Lemons, 1 Cup Oil, 50g Tarama (Salted Fish Roe)

Preparation
Remove crusts from bread.
Soak break with luke warm water for 1 minute.
Drain and squeeze out all water from bread.
Add bread, onion, fish roe with a little oil in blender.
Blend alternating lemon juice with oil on medium speed.
Refrigerate and serve with snacks.

 
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