There’s a cure for that
June 19, 2014 by DarcieThe recent trends of pickling and home curing have revived
interest in old methods and recipes. One of these
everything-old-is-new-again methods is a favorite of Sydney chef
Ben Sears: curing egg yolks. “It’s salty, a little bit
sweet, a little bit more complex,” he says. Sears shaves cured egg
yolks over his bibimbap. “You get a different depth of
flavour from just putting an egg yolk on something.”
The basic curing process involves combining raw egg yolks with
salt (and sometimes sugar) and refrigerating the yolks on a bed of
salt for several days. Although this results in a flavorful product
on its own, you can add herbs or spices to the cure to add
interesting flavor notes. Chef Sears explains: “If you want to put
some pepper and stuff through the cure it’ll come up because eggs
absorb flavours so well,” he says. “You could put some Korean
chilli powder through the cure and it’ll pick up a little bit of
the heat.”
Chef Mary Dumont of the Boston restaurant Harvest offers a step-by-step tutorial on the egg yolk curing process. The basic cure is simple and involves no specialized equipment, just a container, salt, egg yolks, and a refrigerator. Chef Dumont suggests using an oven or dehydrator to dry the cured product, while others recommend hanging the cured eggs in cheesecloth to dry. Chef Dumont grates the dried yolks onto fresh potato gnocchi, Caesar salads, fried rice, or spaghetti carbonara.
Have you ever cured egg yolks? How did you use them?
Photo courtesy Boston Magazine
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