Striker Chef's Crispy Seaweed Chips with Aged Pickled Vegetables and Beef Tartare

An innovative fine dining-style beef tartare recipe that maximizes diverse textures with crispy tapioca seaweed chips, tangy pickles, and aged vegetables.

🙋 Recommended for

  • Those who want to recreate an elegant fine dining atmosphere at home
  • People looking to enjoy a new, multi-textured take on traditional beef tartare instead of the usual version

Ingredients needed 🛒2 servings

  • beef tenderloin (or sirloin) 200g
  • sesame oil 1 tablespoon
  • sugar 1 tablespoon
  • gochujang oil 1 teaspoon
  • salt (to taste) a pinch
  • pepper a pinch
  • minced pickles 2 tablespoons
  • minced aged pickled vegetables 2 tablespoons
  • tapioca starch 2 tablespoons
  • laver powder (or curry powder) a pinch
  • egg yolk 1 piece
  • brining sugar and salt (1:1 ratio)
  • dried yellow croaker skin a pinch
  • grain puffed rice a pinch

Recipe 🍳

  1. Mix salt and sugar in a 1:1 ratio, spread on the bottom of a container, place egg yolk on top, then cover again with salt-sugar mixture. Let it brine for one day to create a firm, solid preserved yolk.
  2. Dissolve tapioca starch in water, cook until thick like paste, mix in laver powder, then spread thinly and dry completely to form starch sheets.
  3. Fry the prepared starch sheets and dried yellow croaker skin in hot oil until crisp, creating garnish chips.
  4. In a bowl, combine sesame oil 1 tablespoon, sugar 1 tablespoon, gochujang oil 1 teaspoon, and pepper. Mix lightly to make the beef tartare sauce.
  5. Slice fresh beef into bite-sized pieces, add to the sauce, then mix gently with minced pickles and minced aged pickled vegetables. Adjust final seasoning with salt.
  6. Place the mixed tartare neatly onto a serving plate, sprinkle with grain puffed rice, grate the preserved yolk using a cheese grater, and top with the fried seaweed chips and dried yellow croaker skin as garnish.
  1. Preserve the egg yolk in a 1:1 salt-sugar mixture for one day to make preserved yolk.
  2. Fry the tapioca starch-laver sheet and dried yellow croaker skin in oil until crispy to prepare garnish chips.
  3. Mix sesame oil, sugar, gochujang oil, and pepper lightly to make the beef tartare seasoning sauce.
  4. Combine sliced beef with the sauce, minced pickles, and minced aged pickled vegetables, mixing gently.
  5. Serve the tartare in a bowl, grate the preserved yolk on top, and finish by adding the fried chips as garnish.

Cooking tips 💡

  • When preparing the beef tartare sauce, do not fully dissolve the sugar—this allows small sugar granules to remain, providing a pleasant crunch and subtle sweetness when eaten.
  • The salted-sugared preserved yolk loses moisture and develops a texture similar to cheese; grating it at the end with a cheese grater enhances both depth of flavor and visual appeal.
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