New Style Hamachi Sashimi with Curry Oil

Ingredients

• 8 ounces of hamachi (yellowtail), pounded out carpaccio style
• 1/4 cup chopped chives
• Fleur de sel (kosher salt could work, but recommend fleur de sel for both taste and texture)
• Fresh cracked black pepper
• 1/2 tablespoon ginger julienned super fine
• Soy syrup, recipe follows
• 1/4 cup curry oil, recipe follows

Directions

Wrap each 2-ounce piece of fish in plastic wrap and pound flat using the bottom of a saute pan. Lay each plate with the carpaccio. Sprinkle with chives, a pinch of salt and black pepper. Drizzle a little soy syrup.

In a small saute pan, heat the curry oil very hot. Add the ginger to the pan. Immediately spoon on 1 tablespoon per plate of the hot oil. The fish should sizzle where the oil hits. Serve at once.

• SOY SYRUP
• 2 cups thin soy sauce
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 lime juiced

Combine all ingredients and reduce at a simmer until a syrup consistency is achieved, about a 60 to 70 per cent reduction. Let cool.

• CURRY OIL
• 1/4 cup curry powder
• Water to make runny paste
• Pinch of salt
• 1 cup canola oil

Make paste and slowly add oil. Let stand for 1 hour to settle. Use top, yellow oil for garnish.