Top sandwich: Omar Koreitem’s trout croque at Mokoloco – 20 minutes
- Faced with the health crisis, chefs and restaurateurs must adapt.
- Before the resumption of the activity of the Mokonuts restaurant, which he runs with his Japanese wife Moko Hirayama, the Lebanese chef Omar Koreitem is refining the menu of their Mokoloco sandwich shop.
- For 20 minutes, he details the recipe for a very tasty croque with trout tartare and sesame cream.
Toast, diced raw fish and sesame cream drizzled with lemon. These are the ingredients of a croque with Franco-Japanese-Lebanese influences thatOmar Koreitem prepare with care every noon at
Mokoloco. This sandwich shop opened in December 2019, rue de Charonne (Paris 11th), a stone’s throw from
Mokonuts, the “bakery café” awarded the prize
Fooding of love held by this chef of Lebanese origin, former official at New York City Hall, with his Japanese wife, former lawyer and excellent pastry chef,
Moko Hirayama.
They usually compose their recipes “instinctively, depending on what you like,” says Omar. Without seeking to merge Japan or Lebanon in their traditional French dishes, even if “touches” and “reminders” are necessarily found here and there.
“Fish is my favorite product,” says Omar. It is the one I prefer to cook and that I prefer to eat, raw, cooked, marinated, in all its forms. The tartare, which we often offer in our other restaurant Mokonuts, we thought why not try it in a sandwich? »The result is there, crispy and tasty to perfection, despite a rather long preparation with its two stages: the sesame cream (or
tahini) with its nutty notes on one side, the trout tartare (but it could be salmon, tuna, mackerel) on the other.
The effect of caviar on a toast
“The freshness of tartare sprinkled with lemon on toast,” Omar emphasizes, “reminds me of the effect of fresh caviar on hot toast. »Except that the taste buds will wriggle for less: the sandwich that Omar generously garnished with fresh fish, sesame cream, tomatoes, salad, onion, herbs and lemon that Omar prepares in white bread thick sliced costs only 12 euros and does the job perfectly for a meal taken on the go. That we lick until the last crumb, the thumb.