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Recipe : ** Smoked White Tuna With Fresh Figs And Pine Nuts

Smoked White Tuna With Fresh Figs And Pine Nuts
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Course:
Main Dish

Practical information

  • Prep time
    30 min
  • Cooking
    45 min
  • Ready in
    1 h 15
  • Difficulty
    Very easy
  • Price
    Friendly budget
  • Rate:
             
 
If you have access to a home cold smoker, use chestnut wood chips to smoke the tuna.
 

Categories

Difficulty:
easy recipe
Category:
Fish and Seafood
Tags:
nuts, tuna, Chestnut, tea

Recipe's Ingredients

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  • 2 onions, peeled and finely chopped
  • 1 green pepper, cleaned and finely chopped
  • powdered red ginger, to taste
  • 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon sherry vinegar
  • salt to taste
  • soy sauce, to taste
  • powdered licorice root, ginger and worcestershire sauce to taste
  • fresh tarragon leaves
  • 10 sundried tomatoes, seeded and chopped
  • 600 g white tuna
  • 20 g sugar
  • 300 g onion, finely chopped and sautéed
  • 500 g fresh tomatoes, peeled and seeded
  • 35 g agar-agar, softened and dissolved in 50 ml water
  • 100 g green pistachios, peeled and chopped
  • 60 g fresh figs
  • 50 g pine nuts
  • olive oil, to brush the fish
  • 1 l vegetable broth
  • 50 ml mild extra virgin olive oil
  • 30 ml honey
  • 25 ml red wine
  • 25 ml olive oil
  • 100 ml extra virgin olive oil
  • 15 ml light molasses

  • Recipe preparation steps

  • 1
    For the sauce: Sauté the 2 onions and green pepper in olive oil until they are tender and barely coloured, add the sugar and the honey, mix in the vinegar and let reduce over the heat.Add the wine and reduce again. Add the mixture to the vegetable broth and cook 10 minutes. Purée and let reduce to thicken the mixture.Season to taste with salt and ginger. Whisk together with the olive oil.
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    Tomato triangles: Cook the 300 g onions and 500 g fresh tomatoes in a covered cast iron pot until reduced to a purée. Season with ginger, licorice, Worcestershire sauce and soya sauce. Remove 330 ml (1-1/3 c.) of the purée and stir in the agar-agar, stirring to dissolve until it reaches an elastic consistency; set aside. Cut into rectangles and cover with the chopped nuts, pressing them in well. Pass quickly under the grill or into the skillet and cut each rectangle diagonally to obtain two triangles.Set aside.
  • 3
    Preparing the tuna and finishing the dish: Cut the fish into 12 rectangles, brush with olive oil and set aside. Whisk together the ingredients for the vinaigrette. Peel the figs, pass under the grill or into a skillet with the pine nuts. Rapidly sauté the tuna on both sides in a lightly oiled pan. To serve, place three pieces of tuna on each plate. Arrange the tomato triangles and the figs and pine nuts alongside and nap the fish with the sour sauce and the triangles with the vinaigrette. Garnish with tarragon leaves.
  • Ready !