Ventresca de Bonito del Norte
Price: $15 cdn, around 10 Euros .
Purchased in Madrid, Spain , Feb 2010 .
In very light olive oil. No additives according to the box. Did not taste any strong salted flavour. Light coloured tuna. Clean looking strips of tuna, ie no roughly cut strips of tuna
Serving it on a tomato, red bell pepper, spanish olive salad. Good match with salad. Overall salad was a good way to serve the tuna. The tuna was very light and had a delicate flavour. The olive oil helps give the tuna a nice smooth moist texture. Definitely better than your typical North American can of tuna but is it worth $15? Only if you dress up a dish like the mentioned salad and make a really good presentation out of it. This tuna is something you use to show off like smoked salmon or foie gras although the tuna lacks the flavour dominance of either. The high quality tuna is more of a pleasant surprise because it’s not the dry tasteless tuna we’re used to eating.
