Botargo
Sign in to saveBottarga is salted, cured fish roe pouch, typically of the grey mullet or the bluefin tuna (). The best-known version is produced around the Mediterranean; similar foods are the Japanese and Taiwanese , which is softer, and Korean , from mullet or freshwater drum. It has many names and is prepared in various ways. Due to its scarcity and involved preparation it is expensive and regarded as a delicacy.
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It is catalogued under topics including Arab cuisine, Byzantine cuisine and Croatian cuisine.
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- Food.name
- Bottarga
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- Bottarga from Preveza Greece.jpg
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- 250px
- Food.caption
- Whole and sliced bottarga
- Food.course
- Hors d'oeuvre
- Food.main_ingredient
- Fish roe
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- Country of origin
- Italy
- Image
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Names and etymology
- History
- Preparation
- Regions
- Tunisia
- Egypt
- Greece
- Italy
- Mauritania
- Turkey
- United States
- Elsewhere
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Bottarga is salted, cured fish roe pouch, typically of the grey mullet or the bluefin tuna (). The best-known version is produced around the Mediterranean; similar foods are the Japanese and Taiwanese , which is softer, and Korean , from mullet or freshwater drum. It has many names and is prepared in various ways. Due to its scarcity and involved preparation it is expensive and regarded as a delicacy.
==Names and etymology== The English name, bottarga, was borrowed from Italian. The Italian form is thought to have been introduced from the Arabic (), plural form (), itself from Byzantine Greek (), a combination of the words ('egg') and ('pickled').
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