Charred Tuna Fish

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6–8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

  • About

Ideal for summer days when you decide to have a barbecue, tuna fish is best when just seared on the outside and still raw inside.

Ingredients

  • lb / 680–900 g tuna fish in a piece
  • 2 tbsp sherry vinegar

Method

Tuna fish is sometimes sold in a thick fillet, and sometimes cut across the bone into a steak. If the latter, this divides neatly into four by removing the central bone and cutting each of the two fillets in half. Cut the fish into even-sized pieces as thick as possible. Six thick chunks cooks far more satisfactorily than twelve neat slices. Brush the fish with the sherry vinegar and olive oil.