New-style yellowtail sashimi

5.00

This elegant yellowtail sashimi recipe from Miho Sato is simply garnished with a fresh shiso oil, dramatically black leek salt and rings of bird's eye chilli.

First published in 2023

Ingredients

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Yellowtail sashimi

  • 10 slices of sashimi-grade yellowtail, cut very thinly
  • 10 slices of red bird's eye chilli, deseeded and cut very thinly
  • daikon radish, julienned
  • shiso leaves, cut into a chiffonade

Leek salt

  • 4 medium leeks, thinly sliced, both the green and white parts

Spicy ponzu

Shiso oil

Method

1

Preheat your oven to 200°C/180°C fan

2

Set a silicon mat on an oven tray, then spread the thin slices of leeks on the mat

  • 4 medium leeks, thinly sliced, both the green and white parts
3

Cook until the leeks are blackened and dry

4

Let them cool down before blending to make a powder

5

Put the leek powder in a salt shaker

6

Mix all ponzu ingredients together in a jar and put to one side. Shake well before serving

7

Put a pot of water on to boil over a medium heat

8

Set a bowl of ice water to one side

  • iced water
9

Blanche the shiso leaves for a few seconds in the hot water before removing and submerging in ice water

10

Repeat this process with the parsley

11

Pat the shiso and parsley leaves dry, before blending with oil and straining through a cheesecloth

  • 10g of oil
12

Keep the residual bright green oil to one side, ready to serve

13

Once the yellowtail has been sliced, arrange the ten pieces in a circle around a flat plate

  • 10 slices of sashimi-grade yellowtail, cut very thinly
14

Place one thin slice of red bird’s eye chilli on top of each yellowtail piece

  • 10 slices of red bird's eye chilli, deseeded and cut very thinly
15

Garnish the middle of the plate with a small salad of daikon radish mixed with baby shiso leaves

16

Sprinkle the plate with black leek salt

17

Finally, dress the plate with the spicy ponzu sauce and a few drops of the bright green oil

First published in 2023

Ten years of rigorous training in Japan armed Miho Sato with remarkable sushi-making skills and a deep appreciation of her craft. Having cooked at Japanese restaurants around Europe, today she is the UK’s only female sushi master, introducing Londoners to edomae style at The Aubrey.

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