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Sturgeon Shashlik with Pomegranate Sauce
Mykola Verbytskyi
Head chef, Prymorskyi Bistro, Odesa, UA
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Sturgeon Shashlik with Pomegranate Sauce

1 h total35 min hands-onServes 2Medium

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Sturgeon fillet in a tomato, lemon and spice marinade, grilled over fire and served with pomegranate sauce and a wedge of lemon.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Charcoal grill or heavy griddle pan, Tongs, Probe thermometer, Resting board
Allergens
None declared
Method
15 steps · 12 photographed · 5 filmed
Components
2 made from scratch
Films
3, 15 min

2 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Marinade

Oil, acid, garlic and spice rubbed in and left long enough to season, not long enough to cure.

Two hours seasons. Overnight in acid turns the surface to paste, and that is what burns first on the grill.

  • Oil000 g
  • Garlic000 g
Steps
3
Time
2.2 h
Hands-on
10 min

Makes For 2 portions

Up to 1 day ahead

Weights and method unlock on purchase

Two-zone fire

Film

Coals banked to one side so there is a hot zone to mark and a cool one to finish.

One even bed of coals gives you a choice between raw inside and black outside. Two zones give you both done.

  • Charcoal000 g
Steps
3
Time
30 min
Hands-on
10 min

Makes One grill session

No

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WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Sturgeon fillet000 g
  • Tomatoes000 g
  • Lemon000 g
  • Onion000 g
  • Paprika000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 15 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING5:00

Which cut, and asking the butcher to leave the fat

TECHNIQUE4:00

Reading a grill by hand: the four-second test

KIT6:00

Building a two-zone fire in a kettle grill

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 15 STEPS

12 photographed · 5 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 12 of the 15 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 5 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: judging the moment to move from the hot zone to the cool one — step 9 of 15.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 9 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Mykola Verbytskyi watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Salting an hour before, not at the grill

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Turning once, by the probe

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Resting as long as it grilled

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The marinade ratio, the ember height and the internal temperature it comes off at.

Written by Mykola Verbytskyi. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

157 verified cooks · 77% said it worked

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