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Txuku Iriarte Solana & Mr. Biju Varghese - The Malabar House
Hotel and restaurant in town (Fort Cochin)
Txuku Iriarte, a founding director of The Malabar House, hails from the Basque city of San Sebastian, undoubtedly one of the food capitals of Europe...

Tower of Tuna medallion with caramelized fruit layers

Serves 4

Ingredients

- Tuna : 150 gm
- Pineapple : 50 gm
- Papaya : 50 gm
- Sugar : 25 gm
- Butter : 10 gm
- Orange : 1
- Pesto sauce : 25 gm
- Teriyaki sauce home made
- Tomato : 50 gm
- Celery : 5 gm
- Garlic : 5gm
- Ginger : 5 gm
- Onion : 5 gm
- Tomato sauce: 5 ml
- Soya sauce : 5 ml
- Carrot : 5 gm
- Capsicum : 5 gm
- Leeks : 5 gm
- Celery : 5 gm
- Spring onions: 5 gm
- Glass noodles: 50 gm
- Salt & pepper to taste
- Parsley sauce
- Parsley : 25 gm
- Olive Oil : 10 gm
- Lime : 1

Method

Sauté the vegetable with olive oil, and add the sauces Ingredients for the noodles

Grind the parsley with the olive oil, add salt and pepper to taste and the juice of the lime

Cut the tuna in thick slices; marinate one half with the pesto sauce, the other half with teriyaki sauce and set aside.
Cut the fruit in equally thick slices. Heat a pan, caramelize the sugar by adding butter and orange juice, once it thickens add the sliced fruits and cook it for 4 to 5 minutes, then set aside.
Grill the tuna slices to taste seasoning it with pepper and salt.
Set on a plate alternate layers, creating a tower of first pesto grilled tuna at the bottom, second papaya, third teriyaki grilled tuna and the pineapple at the top.
Serve it with parsley sauce and glass noodles sautéed with vegetables and sprinkle with drops of mayonnaise.

The Malabar House
Hotel and restaurant in town
The Malabar House is more than a beautifully designed heritage hotel. It is an art hotel, home of a carefully curated collection, highlighting Kerala’s composite culture as a passage between East and West. The rooms are comfortable and the service is flawless. Malabar Junction, the hotel’s renowned restaurant and Divine, its wine lounge, combine the tradition of South India with exciting culinary innovation. Enjoy classical music or a dance performance on the patio’s stage, rejuvenate body and soul at the ayurvedic centre, step into the history and culture of Fort Cochin, and explore Kerala’s backwaters on the hotel’s own eco-friendly house boat. ...Read more
India, Fort Cochin

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