Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Tuna Teriyaki with stir fried vegetables and noodles

I got some frozen Tuna Steaks from Aldi the other day and was looking for something to do with them. If you overcook tuna steaks they are tough and dry, so rare or at worst medium is the way to go. I made a teriyaki salmon last week and had some of the sauce left in the fridge, so this seemed like a winner. I was also in the Oriental Emporium on Abbey Street last week, so the fridge had plenty of nice Chinese greens that needed to be used.


This serves 2 people.
You will need a wok for stir frying the vegetables, a pot to cook the noodles and a pan to cook the tuna. (Ideally a griddle pan to give them the nice lines and not over cook them.)

Ingredients
2 Frozen Tuna Steaks from Aldi (others brands are obviously fine, but not canned)
4-6 heads of Pak Choy
½ a head of Chinese cabbage(Also called Napa Cabbage)
1 Carrot finely chopped
A couple of green chillies chopped small
About 100 ml of teriyaki sauce. You can use bought, but this is better.
Enough noodles for 2 people. About 100-150 g per person should be fine.
Defrost the tuna steaks. I did this out of the fridge for about 10 hours. Make sure they are fully defrosted before you start as the centre will likely be cold as they don't get cooked very much. The microwave will not help here as it will slightly cook the steaks and make them tough. Wash the steaks and dry them with some kitchen paper. Rub a little oil on them. Sunflower is fine or a non-extra virgin olive kind. Extra Virgin will burn when you cook at high temp. Season them with salt and pepper on both sides.

Chop the vegetables up roughly. The Pak Choy and the Chinese Cabbage will wilt a lot, so don't need too much chopping to make them manageable. 
Fill a pot for the noddles with boiling water. Bring this back to the boil.
Heat the teriyaki sauce up. I did this in the microwave and it came out fine.
Heat the wok up very hot until it is almost smoking. Then add the oil to it and throw the chopped chillies in there. Stir fry this for a few seconds to flavour the oil. Then add all of your chopped up vegetables. Try to keep these moving as much as you can.
Put the tuna steaks on the hot pan.
Plunge the noodles into the boiling water.
Don't panic! Each of these things takes about 2½ minutes, so everything should finish at the same time.
Flip the tuna after a minute. Make sure the noodles do not boil over. Keep stirring the vegetables.
As soon as you are happy with the vegetables turn them off. Drain the noodles and divide them up between 2 large bowls. Divide the vegetables up and arrange them on top. Next slice the tuna into strips. This makes it easier to eat with chopsticks and looks nicer too. Pour the teriyaki sauce over the whole lot.
The instructions are quite long, but this is a very easy recipe. Well worth getting the ingredients together for.

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