CHEFS' RECIPES
Raw fish, pickled cucumber and wakame salad

Raw fish, pickled cucumber and wakame salad

Serves 6



1   telegraph cucumber
10 gm   wakame, soaked in cold water and drained (see note)
3   shiso leaves, thinly sliced (see note)
120 gm   sashimi-grade ocean trout
120 gm   sashimi-grade snapper
150 gm   unagi (see note)
6   cooked king prawns, peeled, veins removed, tails intact
Soy dressing
100 ml   soy sauce
150 gm   white sugar
300 ml   rice vinegar


1 For soy dressing, combine soy and sugar in a small saucepan and simmer over medium heat for 2 minutes, cool, then stir through vinegar.
2 Thinly slice cucumber widthways using a mandolin. In a bowl, combine cucumber with 2 tsp sea salt and stand for 5 minutes, then squeeze cucumber to remove excess liquid. Add wakame and shiso and mix to combine.
3 Arrange cucumber mixture in a mound in the centre of plates. Thinly slice fish and unagi into 12 pieces each and arrange around cucumber mixture. Top with prawns, drizzle with dressing and serve immediately.

Note Wakame is a dried seaweed available from Asian grocery and health food stores. Shiso, a herb related to basil and mint also known as perilla, is available from Japanese, Vietnamese and select greengrocers. Unagi is Japanese freshwater eel and is available from good fishmongers and Japanese food stores.

Drink Suggestion Cold dry pilsener.

RECIPE Steve Hodges, Fish Face PHOTOGRAPHY William Meppem STYLING Rodney Dunn

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