We all love to make ourselves delicious meals at home, but sometimes, it can feel like costs have risen enough to make dining out a more reasonable option.
That’s where Danny Kim and his expertise comes into play. This content creator is here to make life easier for all of us, showing everyone how they can make a Michelin level meal on a budget.
All you need is a $10 bill and a little bit of extra time on your hands. Kim is happy to show everyone on TikTok how it is done and we love him for that.
We should all be able to eat good, without having to spend big in the process. Kim is not making the meals himself, either. He has tapped former Michelin chef Kevin Lee to come and show us all how it is done.
As it turns out, you can stretch a fairly limited budget pretty far. We had no idea and that’s why we loved this clip so much. It is a true game changer. To obtain the ingredients, Kim and Lee head to a Korean market in Los Angeles. While they are there, they purchase the following items: a lemon (49 cents), chives (69 cents), a large cucumber ($2.49), perilla leaves (79 cents), and rainbow trout ($4.99).
The total comes to just $9.45. He’s even got 55 cents to spare before he makes his way home and heads into the kitchen to prepare his feast. To get started on the trout tartare that he is going to make, he begins by filleting the fish and brining it. That’s what the lemon, salt and sugar and lemon is for. The brining process takes 30 minutes and all you need to do is leave it in the fridge.
Sesame leaves are blended with grape seed oil before he crafts a sauce by chopping up the cucumber and lemon to create cucumber vinaigrette. From there, he grabs a frying pan and adds the white wine vinegar, sugar, cucumber juice, fennel sides, black pepper and coriander seeds. The vinaigrette is combined with the mixture before he throws in a thyme sprig.
The crab soy sauce, egg yolks and liquid koji are mixed separately. The fish is then sliced before the lemon juice, olive oil, chives and cucumbers are added. A bowl is used to assemble the tartare before it is topped with smoked trout, the egg yolk mix and the cucumber vinaigrette. To finish the dish, a garnish is created by coating crispy nori paper with sesame oil before chopping it up.
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