Tuna Steaks – Tasty Tuesday

Welcome back for another edition of Tasty Tuesday! Today I am featuring marinated tuna steaks. The flavors of the marinade made for a lovely fish dish. It is easy to make. Total time with preparation and cooking is 40 minutes. Are you ready to head into the kitchen?

Ingredients
2 – 1″ thick tuna steaks, 8 ounces each

Tuna Steaks

1/4 cup of fresh squeezed orange juice
1/4 cup of low sodium soy sauce
2 TBS extra virgin olive oil
1 TBS fresh squeezed lemon juice
1 TBS dried parsley flakes
2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
1/4 tsp dried oregano, crushed
5 twists of fresh ground pepper

Take out your tuna steaks and place them in a zipper bag. Then in a measuring cup, add the remaining ingredients. Stir well to combine.

Marinade

Pour this over the tuna, seal the bag, and shake it to get the tuna well coated with the marinade.

Marinating tuna steaks

Place this back in the refrigerator.

After 30 minutes take out the tuna. In a glass baking pan, add the tuna and the marinade.

Ready to bake

Bake these at 350 for 5 minutes a side. Turning the steaks after 5 minutes, spoon some of the pan juices over the steaks.

Midway through cooking

Here it is when it is done.

A perfectly cooked tuna steak

You want to have pink in the middle of your tuna steak, otherwise you will end up with a tough piece of fish.

Very tasty steaks! While these were very good, I think that the best way to cook these would be over a grill. Let me know if you try this recipe. Have a great week and stay tuned for another amazing recipe next week!

Be well… ^..^

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Tasty Tuna for Tasty Tuesday!

We are back for another edition of Tasty Tuesday! How about some fish? Today we head into the kitchen to have some fun with Tuna! If you have not had this fish before, let me tell you it is reminiscent of steak! Here is a preview…

Preview

So, let’s head into the kitchen and see what we can do with this fish. This recipe is for two, and takes 45 minutes for preparation and 6 minutes to cook.

Ingredients
2 tuna steaks
6 cloves of garlic, chopped finely
1 TBS lemon pepper
1 TBS Old Bay Seasoning
1 TBS extra virgin olive oil
1 TBS dried parsley (two if you use fresh)
1 TBS lemon juice

Ingredients

Take the tuna steaks out of the refrigerator and set aside. Take the remaining ingredients and add them to a food processor. Run this until the ingredients are well blended.

Blend the ingredients

Rub all sides of the fish with the blended seasonings.

The fish is rubbed and sits waiting

Now let this sit for 30 minutes. Then, heat the oven to 350 degrees. Add the fish to a baking pan and bake 3 minutes per side for a total cooking time of 6 minutes. If you cook the fish any longer than this is will be tough and chewy.

Plate up the fish with your choice of vegetable, and a starch. I served this with buttered Lima beans and jasmine rice with parsley.

Serve up the tuna!

Well that’s it for this edition of Tasty Tuesday! Thanks for stopping by, and stay tuned for another easy dish next week! Be well… ^..^

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My First Harvest

It took months to get to today. There was the hard work of planting seeds in the trays and watering and watching them sprout. Then it took a number of days to do the back breaking work of building the lasagne garden and getting it planted. Then more watering and playing the waiting game! Today I finally was able to harvest the “fruits” of my labor as my first vegetables were ready!

My first harvest!

In this photo you see the wax beans, broccoli and just a couple of the early raspberries that survived the birds!

Wax beans

Broccoli

Raspberries

I got the veges together for steaming.

Into the steamer basket

These gems were being paired with these gems!

Marinating Ahi Tuna

And this gem!

Coppola Pinot Grigio

When all was cooked and served up

Served with Ahi Tuna

we enjoyed the tremendous flavors of the vegetables from our garden!

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