Marinated Seared Ahi Tuna Recipes

MARINATED SEARED TUNA

Steps:

• In a flat, shallow dish, combine the soy, rice vinegar, sambal, white and light green scallions, garlic and ginger. Add the tuna and roll around to get the marinade on all sides. Cover and let sit in the fridge for up to 2 hours, turning the tuna periodically.
• Remove the tuna from the fridge and let sit in the marinade outside of the fridge for 20 to 30 minutes.
• When the tuna has come to room temperature, remove it from the marinade. With a paper towel, gently remove some of the excess marinade.
• Coat a large saute pan with peanut oil and bring it to a VERY high heat. When the pan is VERY hot but not quite smoking, pull the pan off the heat and add the tuna to the pan. Return the pan to the heat and sear the tuna for 1 minute on each side.
• Remove the tuna from the pan, let rest for 4 to 5 minutes and slice into 1/4 to 1/2-inch thick slices. Sprinkle with the dark green sliced scallion tops.
• Serve immediately with a little extra soy on the side if desired.

SEARED AHI TUNA MARINADE

Steps:

• Start with small amount of wasabi, add just enough soy sauce to help dissolve wasabi.
• Add remaining soy sauce and ginger root.
• Mix well, marinade Ahi tuna.
• coat both sides with seasame seeds.
• pan sear to desired doneness.
• Dipping sauce:.
• mix soy sauce and wasabi for a quick and easy dipping sauce. Options to wasabi: siracha chili sauce or some of the fresh ginger root. Be creative and try different combinations.

SEARED AHI MARINADE

Steps:

• Mix the sesame oil, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, green onion and lime juice in a non metal bowl. Add ahi and coat , cover tightly, and refrigerate for about an hour.
• Toast the sesame seeds in a pan until light brown (I prefer a blend of white and black sesame seeds- the black ones are hard to find, try an asian market). Remove seeds and allow to cool on a flat plate (you will use this plate to dredge the tuna in)- add cracked pepper.
• Add olive oil to a skillet and allow it to get HOT.
• Dredge the ahi in the sesame seeds and pepper to coat and add to the hot pan.
• Cook only two or three minutes on each side so that the ahi is seared on the outside and rare on the inside.
• Serve with white rice and green beans that have been either roasted or cooked and drizzled with sesame oil. Sprinkle any extra sesame seeds over the top.
• garnish with remaining green onion and ENJOY!

AHI TUNA MARINADE

Steps:

• Combine 1 cup of Teriyaki Sauce with 3 minced garlic cloves to create marinade.
• Reserve 1/2 cup of Teriyaki sauce and 1 garlic clove. Refrigerate.
• Place tuna in a shallow dish and poor marinade over fish.
• Marinade for 2-3 hours in the refrigerator.
• Throw out marinade.
• Saute remaining minced garlic clove until tender in 1 TBSP of olive oil.
• Remove from pan.
• Sear tuna on in same frying pan for 1-2 minutes per side.
• While tuna is cooking place "reserved" sauteed garlic & teriyaki sauce over tuna.
• Remove from heat and serve with Teriyaki & Garlic on top.
• Enjoy.