Ester Dry is definitely a food gin, with a robust backbone and enough spice and weight on the palate to carry food of all origins. Felix and Corinna’s favourite is this gin cured salmon using beetroot. It can easily be scaled down to smaller portions.
INGREDIENTS
BEETROOT CURE
- 250g beetroots topped, tailed and quartered
- Zest of one orange
- 1 lemon zest
- 2 juniper berries, bashed
- 120g cooking salt
- 40g brown sugar
- 30ml Ester Dry Gin
- 1 side (approx 1.4kg) high-quality sashimi grade salmon
HERB CURE:
- 2 small bunches dill
- 2 small bunch tarragon
- 100ml Ester Dry Gin
METHOD
Put beetroot in the food processor and blitz, combine all beetroot cure ingredients together.
Lay down two or three layers of glad wrap in a tray. Put fish skin side down and cover with beetroot cure. Massage in thoroughly, wrap tightly and leave in fridge for 18 hours.
Scrape off cure, do not wash! Combine herbs and gin to make the herb cure.
Cover salmon, re-wrap and leave for another 18 hours.
Remove herb cure, and wrap tightly. Slice thinly to serve. Will keep for about 2 weeks in the fridge.
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This gin is a nod to you, our members. We’ve tasted hundreds of delicious Australian gins over the years and every year our tasting panel has the (really terrible) job of choosing their 12 favourite gins to share with you. It’s tough competition and they’re a very picky bunch!
Twelve months ago, we floated the idea of making something exclusively for our members; something one off and never to be repeated. It needed to be something for the collectors to add to their gin shelves and moreover, we had to make a product we were proud to share, and one delicious enough to get past our tasting panel!
