Saturday, March 29, 2025

How to Cook your Tuna

 Tuna steaks are a favorite around here. But if you don't make them right you end up with a dry brick. So here's how I do mine.

Using a stainless steel pan heated very hot (you can feel the heat when you hold your hand 6" above the pan) put in 1 tsp oil and roll it around. Then place in your seasoned tuna steak. It needs to sizzle and crust - this should take about 3 minutes.

Remove from heat and flip the tuna steak. Do NOT put it back on the heat. 

Put a pat of butter and some lemon juice in the pan along with small diced a shallots, stirring until the shallots are translucent.

Serve immediately with drizzle of the juice.

What you're looking for is a slightly pink center for well done to a red strip through the middle for rare.