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Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, sesame crusted seared ahi tuna salad. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The Ahi Tuna: For the sesame-crusted tuna, gather together the tuna steaks, kosher salt, black pepper, and black + white sesame seeds. The Salad Ingredients: Then, prep the salad ingredients including baby arugula, avocado, scallions, and jalapeno. A Word on Yellowfin (Ahi) Tuna: I would love to take a moment and talk about what ahi tuna is before we talk about how to season, cook, and serve.
Sesame Crusted Seared Ahi Tuna Salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Sesame Crusted Seared Ahi Tuna Salad is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sesame crusted seared ahi tuna salad using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sesame Crusted Seared Ahi Tuna Salad:
- Get salad
- Prepare 4 cup black and white sesame seeds
- Prepare 4 each ahi tuna steaks
- Take 1/2 head nappa cabbage
- Make ready 2 bags Cole slaw mix
- Prepare 3/4 cup shredded carrots
- Get 2 each avocados
- Make ready 1 each English cucumber
- Make ready ponzu dressing
- Get 3 tbsp ginger grated
- Get 2 cup Light soy Sauce
- Take 4 tbsp sugar
- Prepare 2 tbsp kosher salt
- Prepare 3 tbsp Siracha hot sauce
- Take 1/2 cup mirin
- Make ready 1/3 cup lemon juice
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup sesame oil
Season all sides of the tuna steaks with a few pinches of salt each and one twist of fresh cracked black pepper on each side. In a medium sized mixing bowl, whisk the egg whites to stiff peaks. In a shallow dish, combine the two types of sesame seeds and stir to mix. Season the tuna with salt and pepper and dredge in the sesame seeds, coating the tuna evenly.
Instructions to make Sesame Crusted Seared Ahi Tuna Salad:
- Make the dressing first just mix all the ingredients together and then add the oil slowly while whisking to combine let sit to marinate 15 min at least
- Now coat the tuna steaks with the sesame seeds set back into the fridge to let sit while you put the salad part together
- Julienne the nappa cabbage and mix it with the bags of Cole slaw mix cut cucumber into thin slices at a bias and slice the avocados nice and thin
- Now sear off the tuna to med rare like 3 minutes a side in a fry pan with a little bit of oil
- If dressing separated just whisk it and it will come back together then toss the dressing with the cabbage to your preference
- Put a nice mound of the salad in the middle of the plate slice the tuna and place around then the cucumbers top with avocado and carrots.
- Save the left over dressing in a container it holds for just about 2 weeks or longer in fridge
In a non stick pan, warm the oil until smoking, arrange the tuna in the pan (making sure not to overcrowd) and cook until the white sesame seeds start to turn golden underneath. I like to serve sesame-crusted ahi tuna steaks two ways depending on how hungry we are, hehe. I cut the seared fish into thin slices serve them with some pickled cucumbers and soy ginger-lime dipping sauce, or with brown rice and tons of vegetables to make a healthy tuna bowl. Add the tuna steaks, turning within the bag to coat them completely with the marinade. Preheat a countertop contact grill to "sear" or the highest temperature setting, or preheat an open grill pan over high heat.
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