Curiosa 2014 December
Curiosa
- How can it be ? You still don't know lime caviar ? You may be a nerd, as myself, who doesn't look at TV, doesn't read culinary papers nor goes to gastronomical restaurants.
A quick research on Internet shows that this product excites a lot amateurs and "bobos". Well, at a price of 300 € per kilogram (in Paris), you could hesitate.
Indeed, it's a species related to citrus, originating from North Australia, Microcitrus australasica, with a cylindrical fruit. As in other citrus fruits, its juice is contained in hairs transformed into vesicles, mais such vesicles are globular and non-adherent. They separate easily in small balls when the fruit is opened, the size of caviar, and they have diverse colors, yellow, pink, purple, green...
Their taste reminds the true lemon, which allows to use them with oysters, salmon or other carpaccios. The exotic effect is guaranteed. You will impress your guests at Christmas.
The problem is to find it. But we can rely on citrus growers, who are always eager to find more lucrative fruits. Within a couple of years, if production can be mastered, the product will be launched. Production has of course begun in Australia, where bushfood is a fashion, then in California and now in Europe.