...and finally one with not too much for my blogging beauty queen wife Joyce Burton-Titular and i to do! She'd picked up a couple of slabs of tuna cuts for sashimi earlier in the week with some idea of pan searing them, not really blackened cajun style... but something like that.
So this morning after breakfast which consisted of scrambled eggs, spanish style sardines in tomato sauce and some focaccia (there is a point for mentioning this) while i was out in the garage cleaning my old Toyota SR preparing it for junking, she was looking for something to do with the tuna for lunch. What she found was pan-seared tuna.
Now i need to mention here that as adventurous as my beauty queen wife is, when it comes to cooking Joyce usually sticks to the recipe. So imagine my surprise when she told me she got the idea from the internet and then... improvised! With some help from me, of course!
Right off the bat she ran into a problem; no breadcrumbs! Bless her heart though she thought of using some oat bran. As i walked in to check on her she asked me what i though of the idea and i said, "sounds kewl, but why don't you just use the leftover rosemary and olive oil focaccia from breakfast and toss it into the food processor?" She had her doubts but in the end she went with the focaccia... and... tossed some oat bran into it as well for this pan-seared tuna delight!
After rolling the patted-dry-tuna-cuts in rock salt, coursely ground pepper and the breadcrumb and oat bran, she passed them to me for a quick sear in a heated pan with olive oil, and i mean quick... just enough to give it a slightly golden brown crunchy top texture... give it shot and enjoy!
Things to consider:
- i guess you can come up with your own coating
- don't forget to pat dry the tuna with paper towels
- make sure the pan is hot enough so you don't take 5 mins. to get that nice
coating and wind up cooking the fish! it is pan-seared tuna sashimi after all.
i gave it about 45 secs. to a minute to sear per side of each tuna sashimi cut.
- we used olive oil
- great clean high protein meal! definitely buff food!
