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Bottarga is the whole roe sac of grey mullet (or tuna), salted, pressed and dried until it is firm and amber. It is a salt-and-drying cure, not a microbial ferment, so it sits at the edge of the atlas. In Greece the dried roe is sealed in beeswax. Made in 5 steps over 6 days – 8 days. The longest step, air-dry, turning daily, takes 5–7 days (Corrias F 2020) and runs at 20 °C (Corrias F 2020).
Amounts from a sourceThe times are from a 2020 study that made bottarga by the traditional Sardinian method from Cabras lagoon mullet. Producers judge salt and drying by weight loss, not by fixed amounts.
Enough to cover; salting time 1 h per 200 g of roe
Dry salt · The study did not report the salt amount, only the time[corrias2020]
Natural wax to seal the dried roe (Messolongi PDO)[pdo-messolongi]
Starter
none (a salt and drying cure)
Total time across the recorded steps: 6 days – 8 days
Start
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What changes:Starting material: whole mullet roe sacs, still in their membrane
Step 1 of 5
Take out the roe sacs whole
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
The two ovaries come out intact in their membrane; air pockets are pressed out. Output: whole, intact roe sacs.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
Not documented for this step.
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
What makes this one different
Bottarga is a cure, not a ferment. Salt and drying preserve the roe, and no study describes a microbial fermentation. Unlike fermented fish pastes, the roe stays whole in its membrane.
Avgotaracho Messolongiou PDO (Greece)Grey mullet roe from the Messolongi-Etoliko lagoons; washed, salted, dried and sealed in natural wax. PDO since 1996.
Bottarga di tonno (Sicily, Sardinia)Made from bluefin or yellowfin tuna roe instead of mullet.
Karasumi (Japan) and wuyuzi (Taiwan)The East Asian names for mullet roe salted and dried the same way.
Safety
Dried fish products rely on low water activity. The US FDA says a water activity of 0.85 or below stops growth and toxin formation by all pathogenic bacteria, including S. aureus and C. botulinum. Dried products packed with less drying, such as vacuum packs, must be kept cold.
Hazards the sources name: Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium botulinum (the pathogens of concern when dried fish products are not dried enough).
The word comes from the Byzantine Greek oiotarikhon, "egg pickle"; the Italian form dates to about 1500. The Messolongi PDO application cites travellers' accounts of the lagoon roe from as far back as 1668.