Chia Seed Crusted Ahi Tuna
Chia Seed Crusted Ahi Tuna

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chia seed crusted ahi tuna. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

For tuna, heat sesame oil in a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Mix chia seeds and sea salt in a shallow bowl. Place tuna, chia seed sides up, in prepared baking pan.

Chia Seed Crusted Ahi Tuna is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Chia Seed Crusted Ahi Tuna is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have chia seed crusted ahi tuna using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chia Seed Crusted Ahi Tuna:
  1. Get Ahi Tuna Steak
  2. Prepare Chia seeds (typically sesame seeds, black/white for aesthetics)
  3. Make ready Green beans (optional)
  4. Take Garlic (optional)
  5. Get Red wine (fancy optional)
  6. Prepare Soy sauce
  7. Get Rice vinegar
  8. Take Olive oil
  9. Make ready Salt
  10. Make ready Pepper
  11. Prepare Lemon (optional)
  12. Get Sweet chilli sauce (optional)

Completely coat the tuna steaks in the mixture, pressing seeds and seasonings into the flesh. Heat the oil in a large, shallow frying pan over high heat. When the oil is hot (chuck a sesame seed. A few of the tuna steaks that I saw were crusted in sesame seeds which sounded pretty interesting.

Steps to make Chia Seed Crusted Ahi Tuna:
  1. Cut veggies and set aside. I chopped garlic and cut green beans down to 1" pieces.
  2. Prep tuna to room temperature, pat down excess moisture and set aside. This will allow the sauce to stick to the tuna easier.
  3. Prep seasoning. Mix salt, pepper, and chia seeds on a flat plate. Salt and pepper is to taste and seeds can be applied liberally.
  4. Prep sauce. Mix about a tbsp of soy sauce, olive oil, rice vinegar (to taste), and lemon. Set aside.
  5. Prep tuna. Apply sauce mixture to tuna, coating all sides. Then dip tuna in seasoning and coat all sides. Set aside.
  6. Heat pan and add cold oil to prevent sticking. Add seasoned tuna to pan and sear for no longer than 1 min (the photo is roughly 30 seconds). Then flip and repeat to other side. You may add garlic here if you want to combine flavors. Remove from pan and set aside.
  7. Stir fry veggies.
  8. Using a sharp knife, thinly slice tuna (less than 1/8").
  9. Combine all elements to a nice presentation plate, please get fancy. Immediately serve.

The tuna was really easy to make. You just crust the steak with sesame seeds and sear it for a few minutes on either side. You want to be careful not to over cook it as fully cooked tuna can be a bit dry. The seared tuna steak was really good. Sesame-crusted ahi tuna with soy ginger lime sauce is a healthy and very simple dish to make!

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