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 have Cured egg yolk using 3 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Cured egg yolk
- Prepare 2 kg of Salt.
- You need 8 of eggs.
- You need container of Air tight.
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
- First you need to make sure your tub is clean & dry & you have enough salt for this recipe.
- Now put 1kg of salt into the the container.
- Use a egg to press down in the salt with a soft round movement to create a dip to catch your yolks.
- Now one the 8 egg beds I like call them are ready serprate the egg yolks & whites placing the egg yolks on the salt.
- Once all 8 egg yolks are places cover the eggs with the remaining 1kg of salt.
- Put the lid on and leave in the fridge for 4 days.
- 4 days later.... 🍾🥂🇬🇧.
- Remove front the salt be gentle when doing this..
- Wash & pat dry placing the yolks onto baking paper.
- 80 degrees for 45 mins then flip.
- 80 degrees for 45 mins remove & cool.
- Once cool grate over fresh pasta, salads for amazing flavour.
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.