Tonno alla Stemperata

Name: Tonno alla Stemperata (Tuna Steak with Sicilian Sauce)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons white wine vinegar; 1 heaping tablespoon fresh mint leaves, chopped fine; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; extra virgin olive oil; 4 tablespoons golden raisins, plumped in hot water for about 12 minutes, then drained; 4 garlic cloves, minced; 6 tuna steaks, weighing about 2¼ lb in total; 2 tablespoons capers, rinsed; 4 tablespoons pitted green olives; 4 celery stalks, chopped

Tuna Steak with Sicilian Sauce

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Classic Italian Cooking

By Valentina Harris

Published 2008

About

Tuna steaks are an integral part of the culinary scene in Sicily and this delicious sweet and sour sauce helps to bring out the flavor not only of the fish, but somehow of Sicily itself!

Ingredients

6 tuna steaks, weighing about 2¼ lb in total
extra virgin olive oil
4

Europe
Italy
Fish course
Pescatarian
Mediterranean
Gluten-free
Sicily

Method

Preheat the broiler or light a barbecue. Brush the tuna generously with olive oil on both sides, then broil the tuna over a medium-hot broiler or over a barbecue on both sides until browned on the outside and still pink in the middle.
Meanwhile, heat about 4 tablespoons