How to salt tuna roe

If you have a chunk of a fresh tuna roe, you need to have about 3.5% of salt from its weight, a few spoons of tasteless, flavourless oil (canola oil for example) and optionally 1.5% sugar.

It is necessary to separate the roe from the containing bag. Tuna roe is small and pretty tough, so you can handle it without fear of destroying it. Just scrub all roe with the spoon. The roe bag can be fried later.

Mix tuna roe with 3.5% of salt, and sugar if you decide to use it. It's mean, that for 1kg of tuna roe, use 35 grams of salt. After mixing, leave in the fridge overnight for salting.

Wash tuna roe to remove extra salt. Add water to the roe and mix it well. Then remove water by filtering through fine mesh. To accelerate this process, use a spoon to help separate water from the tuna roe.

Mix tuna roe with a small amount of oil. Oil will make it more spreadable and prevent it from drying. It is ready to eat, but you can leave it overnight for further maturing.

Now it can be called tuna caviar. Serve it and enjoy!!!





This is how I salt tuna caviar was prepared from the tuna roe from Dumaguete wet market, Philippines.