This is a great variation on tuna. I served this dish with a garden salad and roasted garlic mashed potatoes.
Ingredients
1 tuna steak about 1 1/4 in. thick 1 1/2-2 lb.
Cajun spice
1 lime
Fresh basil
2 small cloves of garlic for aoili and 1 head for mashed potatoes
Olive oil
6 new red potatoes
Cream
Butter
S+P
For aoili you can go about this two different ways and either will work fine. You can make your own mayonnaise by taking one egg yolk in a blender and slowly add olive oil, finely chopped cloves of garlic, 2-3 bunches of basil, the juice of half a lime, and S+P. Add oil until you get your desired consistency. If your not confident in your mayonnaise making skills skip the eggs and oil and use mayonnaise, very similar other than the fact that you've made your own mayonnaise.
Coat tuna in cajun spice, heat olive oil in skillet. Sear on both sides for 2-3 minutes. Place in 350 degree oven for 2-3 minutes, this will give you a mid rare steak; leave in oven longer for more doneness. Allow to let stand for 5 minutes to complete cooking.
For roasted garlic mashed potatoes you can easily wrap a whole head of garlic in tin foil and roast it in the oven but I find it a lot less messy to peel individual cloves of garlic, 10-12, and loosely wrap them in foil. Place in 400 degree oven for 50 minutes. Boil potatoes for 20 minutes mix with hot cream, cold butter, roasted garlic and S+P.
Ingredients
1 tuna steak about 1 1/4 in. thick 1 1/2-2 lb.
Cajun spice
1 lime
Fresh basil
2 small cloves of garlic for aoili and 1 head for mashed potatoes
Olive oil
6 new red potatoes
Cream
Butter
S+P
For aoili you can go about this two different ways and either will work fine. You can make your own mayonnaise by taking one egg yolk in a blender and slowly add olive oil, finely chopped cloves of garlic, 2-3 bunches of basil, the juice of half a lime, and S+P. Add oil until you get your desired consistency. If your not confident in your mayonnaise making skills skip the eggs and oil and use mayonnaise, very similar other than the fact that you've made your own mayonnaise.
Coat tuna in cajun spice, heat olive oil in skillet. Sear on both sides for 2-3 minutes. Place in 350 degree oven for 2-3 minutes, this will give you a mid rare steak; leave in oven longer for more doneness. Allow to let stand for 5 minutes to complete cooking.
For roasted garlic mashed potatoes you can easily wrap a whole head of garlic in tin foil and roast it in the oven but I find it a lot less messy to peel individual cloves of garlic, 10-12, and loosely wrap them in foil. Place in 400 degree oven for 50 minutes. Boil potatoes for 20 minutes mix with hot cream, cold butter, roasted garlic and S+P.
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