Fish eggs are eggs laid by females for breeding purposes. Depending on the type of fish, caviar can differ in size, color, smell and, finally, taste. Knowing about the characteristics of caviar, you can easily identify the fish to which it belongs.
Instructions
Step 1
Very large and tender beluga caviar. Smoky gray in color, the shade of which can vary from dark gray to light gray, almost black. The size of beluga eggs is 2-3, 5 mm, and the shape is similar to an ellipse. The membrane surrounding the eggs of this fish is the thinnest, so the caviar does not burst, but slowly dissolves in the mouth.
Step 2
If the caviar is darker in color, and its size is slightly smaller than that of the beluga, then it undoubtedly belongs to pink salmon. In taste, it has a light nutty tint and can occupy about a quarter of the body of a pink salmon. It is believed that the caviar of this fish is the most delicious.
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Sturgeon caviar has a brown, greenish or even yellowish tint. Its size rarely exceeds 1 mm in diameter.
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Sevruga caviar is the most tasteless of all the others. Its color varies from gray to black, and the size of the eggs is about 1.5 mm.
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As for red caviar, it most often belongs to salmon fish species. These include chum salmon, sockeye salmon, coho salmon and trout.
Step 6
Chum salmon caviar is the best salmon delicacy. It can be recognized by its very large eggs - up to 9 mm and a characteristic yellowish-orange hue. It is believed that chum caviar has a very high taste.
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Sockeye salmon caviar is small in diameter, rich in bright red color. Since this type of fish is found less and less every year, its caviar does not often appear on sale. It tastes spicy bitterness.
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Chinook salmon caviar is less bitter. The size of its eggs is also quite large - about 7 mm. Due to its special delicate taste, it is considered the most scarce and expensive.
Step 9
Very similar to sockeye caviar and coho salmon caviar. Outwardly, it is quite easy to confuse them, but when tasting, coho salmon caviar does not have a bitter taste.
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The smallest salmon caviar is in trout. The size of the eggs rarely reaches 3 mm. Its color can vary from dark yellow to bright red. Compared to other types of red caviar, its color is the brightest.
Step 11
Pike caviar is very small, greenish-yellow in color.
