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Steak Tartare
	; Steak tartare with egg, capers and onions
Dish details
Main ingredient(s)	raw beef or horse meat

Steak tartare is a meat dish made from finely chopped or ground raw beef^[1] or horse meat. Tartare can also be made by thinly slicing a high grade of meat such as strip steak, marinating it in wine or other spirits and spicing it to taste, and then chilling it. It is often served with onions, capers and seasonings (the latter typically incorporating fresh ground pepper and Worcestershire sauce), and sometimes with a raw egg, and usually served on rye bread. The word is derived from the name Tartars or Tatars, an ethnic people from Eastern Europe and part of Asia.

[edit] History

The basis of the name is the legend that nomadic Tatar people of the Central Asian steppes did not have time to cook and thus placed meat underneath their horses' saddles. The meat would be tenderised by the end of the journey.

[edit] Health concerns

Health concerns have reduced the popularity of this meat dish because of the danger of contamination by bacteria and parasites.^[2]

[edit] Regional variations

Steak tartare is now regarded as a gourmet dish. It is especially popular in Belgium, the Netherlands, Northern Germany, France, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland, Slovenia, Czech Republic and Slovakia.

In Belgium and the Netherlands, the variant of steak tartare is known as filet américain (translated as American fillet). It is considered a sandwich dressing; and comes either unprepared (raw ground lean beef) or prepared (with onions and seasonings).

A variant of steak tartare (called tartarmad) is also present in smørrebrød where it is served on rugbrød with assorted toppings. In Germany, there is a very popular variant using raw minced pork called Mett or Hackepeter, which is typically served on rye bread or rolls, with the onions and pepper, but without capers or egg.

The Mexican version of steak tartare typically marinates the meat in lime juice, while the standard version is marinated in wine.

Korean cuisine features a dish of prepared raw beef called Yukhoe.

[edit] Islamic and Jewish dietary laws

Steak Tartare in a restaurant in Paris.

Some scholars of Islamic dietary laws and Jewish kashrut argue that raw meat is forbidden or treif (Yiddish: טרײף or treyf, derived from Hebrew: טְרֵפָה‎ trēfáh) (unfit), respectively; however, consensus holds that raw meat is not forbidden if properly drained of blood.^{[citation needed]}

Raw-meat dishes are popular across the Muslim world; for instance, kibbeh nayyeh (كبة نية, kibbah nayyah) which incorporates raw lamb or beef with bulgur wheat, olive oil and spices, known as çiğ köfte (raw meat ball) in Turkey, is often considered to be the national dish of Lebanon and is also popular in Syria.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

^ Waxman, Jonathan; Steele, Tom; Flay, Bobby; Kernick, John (2007). A Great American Cook: Recipes from the Home Kitchen of One of Our Most Influential Chefs. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0618658521.
^ http://www.streetdirectory.com/food_editorials/meals/steaks/fresh_meat_for_steak_tartar.html

[edit] External links

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Steak tartare

[0] Waxman, Jonathan; Steele, Tom; Flay, Bobby; Kernick, John (2007). A Great American Cook: Recipes from the Home Kitchen of One of Our Most Influential Chefs. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0618658521.

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