Japanese style tuna on potato rosti with wasabi sauce

4 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
4 175 g Tuna Steaks; (approximately 2.5cm
; / 1 inch thick)
4 tablespoons Sake
4 tablespoons Soy Sauce
1 teaspoon Chilli Oil
½ Lemon; (juice)
1 tablespoon Vegetable Oil
450 grams Baking Potatoes; (peeled and
; par-boiled)
Salt and Freshly Ground Black Pepper
2 tablespoons Clarified Butter; (for frying)
Oil for Frying
½ Cucumber
½ Red Onion; (peeled and cut into
; very thin wedges)
1 teaspoon Sugar
1 tablespoon Hot Water
½ Lemon; (juice)
2 tablespoons Rice Wine Vinegar
1 Red Chilli; (de-seeded and
; thinly sliced)
2 teaspoons Wasabi Paste
90 millilitres Natural Yoghurt
½ Lemon; (juice)

Directions

MARINADE

POTATO ROSTI

CUCUMBER SALSA

WASABI SAUCE

1. Place all the marinade ingredients in a bowl and mix together well. Add the tuna, cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.

2. Prepare the salsa. Cut the cucumber in half lengthways, remove the seeds with a spoon, cut each half into thirds and then thinly slice. Cut the red onion into thin wedges. To make the dressing, dissolve the sugar in a little hot water, add the lemon juice and rice wine vinegar and mix together well. In a small bowl, mix together the cucumber, red onion and red chilli. Add the dressing and toss all the ingredients together 3. Mix together the wasabi, natural yoghurt and lemon juice 4. Meanwhile, prepare the rosti. Grate the cold potatoes and mould into 4 balls, flatten slightly. Heat the oil in a frying pan, add the potatoes and cook for 2 to 3 minutes on each side 5. Heat a griddle pan and cook the tuna steaks for 4 minutes on each side, or until just opaque in the centre.

6. Place the rosti on four serving plates, place the tuna steaks on top and arrange a pile of cucumber salsa by the side. Serve with the wasabi sauce.

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NOTES : Chef:Amanda Grant

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