Cured egg yolk. Finely grate cured egg yolks over soups, pastas, or salads as you would a hard cheese. Place in an airtight container and chill. Cured egg yolks are the mysterious, and slightly strange homemade condiment that everyone should be making.
The process is dead simple: Separate. Egg yolks are one of the most magical of foods. Chefs all over the world wax poetic about them, but I wanted to capture that color, that richness. You can cook Cured egg yolk using 3 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Cured egg yolk
- Prepare 100 ml of Soy sauce.
- It's 200 ml of Mirin.
- You need of Egg yolks.
I'd known about salt cured egg yolk for a few years; my. Cured egg yolks have all the richness of fine cheese, along with a salty tang that comes from the curing process. They're equally at home finely grated on top of pasta or topping a tasty dessert. Soft cured eggs yolks are easy to make, with a soft, gooey texture and intensified flavor.
Cured egg yolk step by step
- Separate your egg yolks from their whites, mix you soy & mirin. Leave in fridge over night.
- Next day should look like this just give them a flip & place back into the fridge.
- Serve with sticky rice but I didn’t have any to hand so I have used simple egg fried rice with some chilli, ginger & spring onion.
- 3 days is a total max for the cured yolk method.
Ok, strictly speaking, this is not a meat recipe. And usually I am all about meat recipes. Cured egg yolks add an umami, cheese-like flavor to dishes, much like grated parmesan cheese. And the best part is that the carbon footprint of making a cured yolk is much less than making parmesan. This salt-cured egg yolk is absolutely delicious as a dairy-free Parmesan substitute.