Mediterranean Tuna Snacks Recipe
Flavors of Bordeaux
Total time: less than 15 minutes
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Oven drying time: 3 hours
Cooking time: 15-20 minutes
Difficulty: Requires a certain dexterity
Ingredients
For 4 servings
- Bread dough, homemade or from your baker
- caraway seeds
- 12 x 60 g (2 oz.) pieces of Mediterranean red tuna
Confit tomatoes
- 6 Roma Tomatoes
- A pinch each of salt and sugar
- Olive oil
Pesto
- 100 g (3 1/2 oz.) basil
- 50 g (2 oz.) pine nuts
- 50 g (2 oz.) grated Parmesan
- 175 g (3/4 cup) olive oil
- Salt
- Lemon juice
Garnish
- 4 slices of cornichon (small pickles)
- 12 sweet onion rings
- 12 basil leaves
- Freshly ground pepper
- Olive oil
Method
- Make some bread dough, or order it from your baker. Roll it out very thinly and cut into pieces approximately 5 x 10 cm.
- Pre-bake in a 150° C (300° F) oven for 8 minutes, sprinkled with caraway seeds, then fry until lightly browned.
Confit tomatoes
- Hull the tomatoes; halve them and sprinkle with salt, sugar and oil.
- Dry in a 90° C (200° F) oven for 3 hours.
Pesto
- Mix the basil, pine nuts, grated Parmesan, olive oil and salt in a blender until smooth.
- Thin with a little lemon juice.
Finishing
- Cut the cornichon slices in half.
- Sweat the sweet onion rings in a little olive oil.
- Quickly sear the half-moons of tuna in a skillet.
Presentation
- Places 3 pieces of tuna on each plate with a half slice of cornichon on each side.
- Add the thin layers of fried bread, and sauce the tops of the tuna with pesto.
- Add the confit tomatoes, onion rings, basil leaves, two grindings of fresh pepper and a drizzle of olive oil.
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