Seared Tuna with Sweet and Sour Onion Relish

Name: Seared Tuna with Sweet and Sour Onion Relish
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons Thai fish sauce; 3 tablespoons tamarind paste; 8 large basil leaves; ½ cup coriander leaves; salt and freshly ground pepper; 2 tablespoons palm sugar or caster sugar; 2 tablespoons palm sugar or caster sugar; 4 cloves garlic, peeled and finely sliced; 4 limes, zest and juice; 80 ml(2 ½ fl oz) olive oil; 4 medium red onions, finely sliced; salt and freshly ground pepper; 4 × 180 g(6 oz) pieces tuna loin, about 2 ½ cm (1 in) thick

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A World in My Kitchen

By Peter Gordon

Published 2003

About

Tamarind is the seed pod from a beautiful tree in South East Asia and India. It has a sour, tongue-puckering taste and is extremely refreshing. You can find it in most Indian food shops. Make sure you choose line-caught tuna whenever possible. This also works really well made with mahi mahi or swordfish.

Ingredients

salt and freshly ground pepper
4 × 180 g(6 oz) pieces tuna loin, about 2 ½ cm (1 in) thick

Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Lightly season the fish and brush with a little oil. Leave to rest at room temperature while you make the relish. Heat the remaining oil in a deep frying pan and sauté the onions on a medium heat for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Once they begin to colour, add garlic and turn heat up to high. Stir continuously for a minute, then add lime zest and juice, sugar, tamarind paste and Thai fish s