Dinner · 12 min · Amounts not specified
Seared tuna with soy
Canned tuna is a different dinner. This wants a steak if you have it; otherwise skip.
The sheet · 2 plates · 12 min
easyWhy tonight. Canned tuna is a different dinner. This wants a steak if you have it; otherwise skip.
What it needs
Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.
- tuna
- soy sauce
- sesame oil
- ginger
- scallion
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: sesame seeds.
Method
- A screaming dry pan and a fillet that is genuinely thick. Thin tuna is cooked through before it has a crust.
- Ninety seconds a side and no longer. It should be raw and ruby in the middle — cooked through, tuna is chalk.
- Marinate for ten minutes at most beforehand, or the soy cures the surface and it turns gray.
- Sesame oil and scallion off the heat, and slice it across the grain against the sear.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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Published minimums for what is in this
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- tuna
- Canned in oil is a different ingredient from canned in water; the oil is flavor and should go into the dish, not the sink.
- soy sauce
- Salt with a savory backbone, so it seasons and deepens in one move.
- sesame oil
- A seasoning, not a cooking oil.
- ginger
- Bright and hot when raw, mellow and warm when cooked.
- scallion
- Two ingredients on one stalk.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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The sauce is the point. Spoon it over everything.
Next
Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.
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