Pacific Blue fin tuna
The dense flesh of Blue fin tuna possesses a ferrous flavor, and a bloody tang that conjures up images of these giant, stately fish on their great pelagic migration. A delectable lipid quality that intensifies from late autumn elevates tuna future to a complete, sublime package of taste and aroma. The chutoro belly meat, where the red clears to brilliant vermilion, or is slightly cloudy depending on the fat content, and the marbled otoro, are attractively colored too. Even the sinews of ‘chiai-gishi’ chutoro near the spine, the most fragrant and intensely flavored of chutoro, and jabara otoro, the fattiest part of the fish, the gizzard covered in sinews, melt in the mouth like ice cream.
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