Yellowfin
tuna cheek is one of the tastiest parts of tuna
fish meal. Fish have a cheek? Yes, they do and many considered it as the best
part of the tuna fish. Even it has been centuries that people serve fish cheek,
not only tuna, as the most delicious dishes they ever have. The larger the fish
then the larger the cheek part they will have just like tuna or salmon.
Moreover, you do not need to have
particular recipe just to prepare the tuna fish. From very simple recipe, your
tuna cheek dish will absolutely taste like heaven. In fact, they are best when
cooking with simple preparation method or technique. You can cook the frozen yellowfin tuna cheek by pan frying or
grilling and if you want to add some flavor, you can add light seasonings like
spices or herbs and then you can sautéed the meat in olive oil or butter.
The most important point when cooking tuna
yellowfin cheek is avoid to overcook it or not to cook them long since it can
make the soft meat tougher and change the texture. About two minutes or so are
enough to cook the yellowfin tuna cheek. The meaty taste will surely makes you
want it more and more. And of course, you can try many different recipes when
cook tuna cheek. You can try to prepare it with many cooking techniques as
well.
The most important point when you can get a
whole tuna is that never throw the fish head because you can take the cheek and
the head parts for delicious dishes. Some people might consider throwing them
away and just cut out the whole body to be cooked later. However, both the head
and the cheek can become the most delicious parts if you knew how to prepare
them particularly the head part. Of course it needs more complicated cooking
method to prepare the fish head than the cheek part, but when you find a good
recipes, you will surely not regret it.
Yellowfin
tuna cheek special cuts, how to order them
Okay, if you go to some restaurants, they
may serve many tuna dishes. But sometime the tuna head and cheek are not featured
in their restaurant menus so you need to specifically order them. And since
this part is really special especially in some sushi restaurants, it may cost
you more and thus when eating the yellowfin tuna
cheek, you need to enter and swallow it slowly and gulp it down into
your stomach and you will experience the best tuna fish dish that maybe you
never imagine. You can eat the fish with some condiments like wasabi or soy
sauce too.
Everybody knows that the cheek is the best
part of the tuna fish. However, they are limited and too little to be shared to
anyone, so you might be found it difficult to order it from your restaurants
unless the restaurants have large storage of whole tuna fish. You might end up
fighting for it with other customers who want to enjoy eating tuna cheek.
Thanks that tuna is quite a large fish so
you can hope for large size of tuna cheek to make one person dish. The part of
the tuna cheek taste very rich, meaty, and really flavorful. Not to mention the
tuna cheek is really juicy and it can melt in your mouth. This meat part has
soft texture so you can simply cut it with chopstick or fork.
Just like we already mentioned before, you
do not need fancy recipe or seasonings to prepare yellowfin
tuna cheek dish. If you want to try prepare such dish at home, but you
do not have any skill to prepare the cheek part like professional chefs then do
not worry since what you need to do is just sprinkle it with pepper and salt
and then sauté it with olive oil. After that, you will get a fantastic and
delicious dish!
For your information, in Japan the tuna
cheek is often called maguro no hohoniku and the tuna
fish itself are mentioned as ‘The King of the Fish’ by Japanese people. So, you
can imagine, next time you have a trip to some Japanese restaurants, you can
try to order it there. Of course you may spend a lot of money to get this best
part, but once again, you will not regret it.
How to find
yellowfin tuna cheek suppliers?
Rather than order the tuna cheek in some
random restaurants, you may want to look for the tuna cheek on your own and try
some recipe at your kitchen. There are many tuna suppliers that offer frozen or
fresh yellowfin tuna cheek. If you are
lucky, you can even spot it at some local grocery stores at the end of the day.
You can look for online tuna suppliers who
sell frozen tuna cheek so you can thaw it properly when your order arrives in
the destination. However, you can also order for a whole tuna fish and if you
have some skill then you can cut the cheek part and remove it properly from the
tuna fish whole body part.
The demand of the tuna fish is quite larger
in worldwide. This is why; you need to find trusted and dependable seafood
suppliers who willing to sell a high quality tuna fish. First, search for the
best tuna suppliers in your country or you can find them online and ask for
their tuna products.
Check the qualities of their products by
read some testimonies from other customers or you can ask for some sample. And
if the supplier’s location is near from your place then you can just visit them
directly and see how they store and process their tuna fish products. Better
ask for the prices right away and ask for some discount to get cheaper prices.
The last thing to do is to ask for special
order which is the yellowfin tuna cheek.
Your suppliers may willing to sell to you only the parts that you ordered,
however some suppliers may not allow it and you need to buy a whole tuna fish.
