{"id":6525,"date":"2009-11-06T21:11:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T21:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2009\/11\/pan-seared-tuna-with-avocado\/"},"modified":"2009-11-06T21:11:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T21:11:50","slug":"pan-seared-tuna-with-avocado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/11\/06\/pan-seared-tuna-with-avocado\/","title":{"rendered":"Pan-seared tuna with avocado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This recipe shamelessly stolen from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1400052378?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=grayblog-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738&#038;creativeASIN=1400052378\">Eat This Book: Cooking with Global Fresh Flavours<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=grayblog-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=1400052378\" \/> by <a title=\"official Tyler Florence website\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tylerflorence.com\/\">Tyler Florence<\/a> &#8211; a book of recent discovery (by chance) in this house, with excellent recipes on just about every page. It&#8217;s quick to prepare (about 30-40 minutes), darned tasty and looks good too &#8211; so ideal for dinner parties or for impressing people, although I think it makes a pretty good Friday night dinner too.<\/p>\n<p>INGREDIENTS:<\/p>\n<p>For the sauce\/dressing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 fl oz (60ml) extra virgin olive oil<\/li>\n<li>2 fl oz (60ml) soy sauce<\/li>\n<li>Juice of 4 limes<\/li>\n<li>2 good handfuls of fresh coriander leaves, finely chopped (use kitchen scissors unless you have amazing knife skills)<\/li>\n<li>1 Jalapeno chilli (or other medium hot chilli), sliced complete with seeds (actually, I think this looks prettier with a red chilli, not a green Jalapeno)<\/li>\n<li>1 crushed garlic clove<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon crushed fresh ginger (I peeled a piece and then crushed it in a garlic press over the mixing bowl, so as to catch all the juice)<\/li>\n<li>Half teaspoon sugar<\/li>\n<li>Salt and pepper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the main dish:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>good quality fresh tuna steaks (there is enough dressing\/sauce for four steaks in this recipe or, do as we do, and use this quantity of dressing\/sauce with just two steaks)<\/li>\n<li>2 avocados, peeled, pitted and sliced<\/li>\n<li>extra virgin olive oil<\/li>\n<li>a bag of rocket (or fresh from the garden\/allotment if you have it &#8211; how we miss summer! Our own rocket was miles better than any we have bought anywhere, ever. Period.)<\/li>\n<li>cherry tomatoes (allow around 6 per person)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>METHOD:<\/p>\n<p>First, make the sauce\/dressing. This is easy. Shove everything in a bowl. Stir. Got it?<\/p>\n<p>Next, scoot your tomatoes around a griddle pan in a little oil until they are slightly seared and split. Plate them up with a portion of the rocket on each plate.<\/p>\n<p>Then, add a little more oil if necessary and, over a medium-high heat, sear the tuna for a minute or so on each side. Then spoon over roughly a quarter of the sauce and cook for another minute or two. Turn the steaks over and add another quarter of the sauce (or one-third of what remains, if you follow my maths).<\/p>\n<p>Plate up the tuna. Arrange the avocado pieces artfully around the plate and then spoon over the rest of the dressing in a tasteful fashion. Serve with a long cold drink (gin and tonic, good Belgian beer, whatever &#8211; you need something long, as the sauce\/dressing has quite a kick to it, particularly if (as we did) you make the dressing an hour or so in advance and let the chilli get to work on the other sauce ingredients).<\/p>\n<p>Definitely the best new recipe I&#8217;ve tried for a while. Not that I&#8217;ve tried many new recipes lately. With everything else going on around here (I&#8217;ll write about it somewhen), the cooking mojo hasn&#8217;t been what it was. We need to get that back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recipe shamelessly stolen from Eat This Book: Cooking with Global Fresh Flavours by Tyler Florence &#8211; a book of recent discovery (by chance) in this house, with excellent recipes on just about every page. It&#8217;s quick to prepare (about 30-40 minutes), darned tasty and looks good too &#8211; so ideal for dinner parties or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}