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Sesame-Seared Tuna Steaks with Cucumber Tomato Salad

Tuna steaks soak up a soy and mirin marinade, wear a crust of sesame seeds and sear briefly. A cool cucumber and tomato salad with ginger and a hint of wasabi goes alongside.

  • YieldServes 4
  • Hands-on25 min
  • Total45 min
  • Difficulty

Ingredients

Tuna

  • 60 mlsoy sauce
  • 60 mlmirin
  • 2 tspsesame oil
  • 1 tspbrown sugar
  • 4tuna steaks, about 4 cm thick, 170 to 225 g each
  • 75 gsesame seeds
  • 3 tbspvegetable oil

Salad

  • 1cucumber, peeled, seeded, cut in 2 cm dice
  • 150 ggrape tomatoes, quartered
  • 2scallions, chopped
  • 2 tbspvegetable oil
  • 4 tsprice vinegar
  • ½ tspfresh ginger, minced
  • ¼ tspwasabi powder

Diet

  • Pescatarian

Contains

  • Gluten
  • Soy
  • Fish
  • Sesame
  • Mustard
  • Sulfites
  • Tuna
  • Legumes (any)
  • Wheat
  • Rice
  • Nightshades (any)
  • Tomato
  • Onion family (any)
  • Scallion (green onion)
  • Cabbage family (any)
  • Horseradish
  • Wasabi
  • Cucumber
  • Ginger
  • Mold-ripened and koji-fermented foods
  • Histamine (aged and fermented foods)
  • Alcohol

Taste

  • Sweet
  • Sour / bright
  • Salty
  • Umami / savory
  • Richness / fat
  • Herbal / fresh
  • Aromatic spice

Texture

  • Crunchy

Equipment

  • Stovetop

Season

  • Any season

Occasion

  • Weeknight

Effort

  • 20–45 min active
  • 30–60 min total
  • Difficulty 2

Nutrition

  • Calories: moderate
  • Protein: moderate
  • Carbs: low
  • Fat: high
  • Fiber: moderate
  • Sodium: high

Budget

  • Budget: high

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