Tahr Tartare

Himalayan Mountain Tahr is my fav game meat taste wise, incredibly exotic animal & hard to believe they are roaming wild in the Southern Alps of New Zealand.

Super lean and delicious, perfect to serve raw, if you cannot find Tahr then use any lean game such as wallaby, venison or even beef. The hot sauce mother is a starter and needs to be made two weeks in advance. If you don’t want to make this, season with your favourite hot sauce. Pairs well with something fresh like a Sparkling wine, or a light juicy red such as Gamay from Beaujolais

Ingredients

Yorkshire Puddings

250g Eggs
250g Plain flour
250g Milk
1 tsp Canola oil

 

Tartare Mix

300g diced Tahr meat
20g chopped chives
30g egg yolks
30g ketchup
25g worcestershire sauce
15g wholegrain mustard
12g american mustard
40g diced shallot
40g diced capers
40g diced gherkins
45g grapeseed oil

 

Hot Sauce Mother

200g Ghost chilli
200g Brown onion chopped
3 garlic cloves peeled
1L White vinegar
100g Sea salt
100g unsalted butter

 

Hot Sauce

3kg Red capsicums
2 Brown onions
3 Garlic cloves (crushed)
120ml Rice wine vinegar
80g (approx) Brown sugar

Directions

Yorkshire Puddings

Make the mixture a day before using

  1. Mix all the ingredients together
  2. Add water in a small amounts to loosen and finish with some canola oil
  3. Keep the mixture in the fridge overnight.

To cook

  1. Pour oil in eclair molds (or similar), very shallow amount (only enough to cover the bottom) at 200℃ for 3 min
  2. Heat oil in molds
  3. Remove tray from oven, pour yorkshire pudding batter in the moulds and put back into the oven.
  4. Cook Yorkshire puddings at 200℃ in fan oven for 8 min
  5. Check them to make sure they are crispy

 

Tartare Mix

  1. Mix all ingredients except for the diced meat in a bowl and season to taste.
  2. Add the tartare sauce to the Tahr, a little at a time to your preferred amount.

 

Hot Sauce Mother

  1. Place all ingredients into a fermenting jar, leave to ferment for 2 weeks.

 

Hot Sauce

  1. Roast Red capsicum (can be on the barbecue) until the skin is black
  2. Once room temp, peel off and remove seeds
  3. Cook in a pan onion + garlic until soft
  4. Add capsicum, cook it for 2 min
  5. Deglaze the pan with rice wine vinegar
  6. Add brown sugar, reduce it
  7. Blitz everything in a blender, add hot sauce mother to your required taste.


To assemble
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  1. Take the little yorkshire puddings in your hand and scoop the tartare mix into them generously.
  2. Place little dots of hot sauce down the top of the mix.
  3. Garnish with your favorite editable flowers and chopped chives.

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