Seared Ahi with Spicy Dipping Sauce
This Seared Ahi with Spicy Dipping Sauce is fast, delicious, and perfect for your next dinner. Just need a spicy sauce? Try this sauce on dumplings.
Equipment
- 1 Cast iron skillet
Ingredients
Spicy Dipping Sauce
- 4 ounces lime juice approx 2-3 limes strained
- 3 ounces low sodium soy sauce
- 2 ounces rice wine vinegar
- ½ ounce lemon juice approx 1 small lemon strained
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ⅓ cup cilantro chopped
- 1 medium jalapeño or serrano if you like spicy, seeded and diced fine
- ⅓ medium red onion diced fine
Pepper Crusted Ahi Tuna
- 10-12 ounce sushi-grade tuna steak
- 2-3 tablespoon course crushed black peppercorns
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoon Canola grapeseed or olive oil
Instructions
Make the Sauce
- Add all ingredients to a bowl and set aside until ready to use, or refrigerate if using later that day.
Prepare and Cook the Ahi Tuna
- Heat a heavy cast iron skillet on the stove at high heat. Generously add pepper to both sides of tuna steak and press into the flesh.
- Once skillet is smoking hot, add oil. Wait 10 seconds and gently put tuna in the skillet. Cook for 1 minute per side (depending on how thick the tuna is and how rare you like it - 1 minute per side produces a seared outside and raw inside).
- Remove from pan, slice across the grain (which should yield large bite-sized pieces) and serve with the dipping sauce.
Nutrition
Calories: 160kcalCarbohydrates: 8gProtein: 19gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0.01gCholesterol: 27mgSodium: 1377mgPotassium: 389mgFiber: 2gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 1718IUVitamin C: 15mgCalcium: 44mgIron: 2mg
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