Ankimo steamed monkfish liver Reviews

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Mark Girdlestone

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Posted 3 years ago

“If you are of my sort of age the recollection of school dinner liver with added fish is not an appealing prospect. The reality is different. As the description says ankimo is a chinmi which is to say a local, distinctive and now rare Japanese food. Ankimo comes from Kanto ie the Tokyo area of Japan. In my experience it is hard enough to find in Japan but this is the only source I know of in the UK. Light and delicate with a lovely mouth feel and only a hint of fish. It is a complete contrast to the gamey red mullet liver (also available here and also highly recommended). I recommend eating it with grated daikon/mooli/white radish which has had a bit of Tabasco on it, sliced spring onions and ponzu. You can get daikon and Tabasco pretty generally and Waitrose and others sell ponzu. If you are not a traditionalist then try it in a gunkan-maki, a battleship roll, which is a ball of rice wrapped in nori with the ankimo on top. I do think that this is so authentically delicate that it is best to avoid both soy sauce and wasabi. Do try it however.”

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Posted 4 years ago