Peppered Tuna With Mushroom Sauce Recipes

Steps:

• Press 1/2 teaspoon cracked pepper onto each side of each tuna steak and sprinkle lightly with salt. Heat oil in heavy medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add tuna to skillet and sear until cooked to desired doneness, about 3 1/2 minutes per side for medium. Transfer tuna to plates; tent with foil to keep warm. Add butter and shallots to same skillet. Sauté over medium heat until shallots soften, add mushrooms about 3 minutes. Remove skillet from heat. Add sesame oil, soy sauce and broth, then sherry. Place skillet over high heat and boil until sauce is reduced to 1/3 cup, about 8 minutes. Season with salt and remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Slice tuna and place over prepared polenta.Spoon sauce over tuna. Sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds and chopped chives.

Steps:

• Heat two tablespoons vegetable oil in a non-stick skillet over high heat.
• Pepper one side of the tuna steaks, place pepper side down and sear for two minutes.
• Turn tuna over and continue cooking, about two minutes for rare, four for medium.
• Transfer tuna to plate and keep warm.
• Add olive oil, green onions, cilantro, ginger and garlic to same skillet and saute about 30 seconds.
• Mix in mushrooms and soy sauce and simmer 30 seconds for shiitake, 1 minute for morels.
• Add half and half and simmer until thickened, about 3-4 minutes.
• Stir in lime juice.
• Spoon sauce onto plates and place tuna steak on top.
• Garnish with cilantro and a slice of pickled ginger.

Steps:

• Mix the basil, thyme and the black pepper together. Season the tuna with the mixture. In a hot saute pan, add the olive oil and sear the tuna until cooked rare or to desired temperature. Remove the tuna. Then add the bok choy with the wasabi, fish stock and the soy sauce to the hot saute. Reduce the stock by a quarter. Remove from heat and ladle the soy wasabi broth into the bowls and place the cooked tuna on the top of top of the bok choy.

Steps:

• Sprinkle the tuna steaks on both sides with two tablespoons of the olive oil, and press in the cracked black pepper and sea salt. Preheat grill.
• Heat the remaining oil in a skillet, and saute the mushrooms until crisp. Toward the end of cooking, add the garlic and cook through. Add the beans and the thyme, and cook for a minute or two over moderate heat.
• Grill the tuna for three to four minutes on each side. (Rare is preferable, but cook the fish more if you want it more done.)
• Slice the tuna steaks on the bias. Arrange the vegetables down the center of an oval serving dish, and put the tuna slices on top. Garnish with lemon quarters and thyme sprigs.