Steak tartare Steak tartare Steak tartare is a meat dish made from raw ground meat (beef or horsemeat). It is usually served with onions, capers, pepper and Worcestershire sauce, and other seasonings, often presented to the diner separately, to be added to taste. It is often served with a raw egg yolk, and often on rye bread. The name tartare is sometimes generalized to other raw meat or fish dishes. A less-common version in France is "tartare aller-retour", a mound of mostly raw ground meat that is lightly seared on both sides. The idea of eating raw meat was first noted in
Raw meat Various Working Practices in Shops Selling Raw and Cooked Meats.” The Journal of Hygiene 97.1 (1986): 81–90. Cambridge University Press. Print. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3863214 Wallace, Barbara J. MD et al. “Seafood-associated disease outbreaks in New York, 1980–1994.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine 17.1 (1999): 48–54. Print. Raw meat Raw meat generally refers to any type of uncooked muscle tissue of an animal used for food. In the meat production industry, the term ‘meat’ refers specifically to mammalian flesh, while the words ‘poultry’ and ‘seafood’ are used to differentiate between the tissue of birds and aquatic creatures. While the majority of