Whale meat `tatsuta-age´ Norweigian style

鯨の竜田揚げ、ノルウェー風

My family and I travelled to Northern Norway last week.

There we had delicious fish and local food.

One of the things I was given by friends to take was whale meat.

Whale meat, believe or not, was occasionally served as school lunch when I was at elementary school.(this was many, many years ago.  I don´t know if it´s served at school now).

One of the popular dishes was deep-fried whale meat with tomato-based sauce.

And somehow it was called `Norwegian-style´.

The whale meat I got in Andøya inspired me to recreate the dish :-)
I served it to my Norwegian family in Oslo.
It was an instant success!

Serves 4 (As a side dish)

150g Whale meat

1 tbs/ss sake

1tbs/ss soya sauce

1/2 ts grated ginger

3 tbs/ss potate flour (or cornstarch)

oil for deep-fry

3&1/2 tbs/ss tomato ketchap

1 ts worcestershire sauce

1ts soya sauce

1 ts sugar

1 Cut the meat into bite-size pieces (I had carpaccio meat so cut into half then made them as balls).

2 Put the meat in a small container and marinate with the sake, soya sauce and ginger.

Rest the meat in refrigerator for 10 minutes.

3 Conbine the ketchup, worcestershire sauce, soya sauce and sugar in a small pot.

Mix well and cook for 1minute then set aside.

3 Preheat the oil for deep-frying.

Cover the marinated meat with the potato flour.

4 Deep-fry the meat until the surface becomes golden.

Drain the fried meat with kitchen paper.

Conbine with the sauce, and serve.