Tuna (Or Fish or Chicken) With Ginger Shiitake Cream Sauce

Name: Tuna (Or Fish or Chicken) With Ginger Shiitake Cream Sauce
Prep time: 23 min
Cook time: 23 min
Total time: 23 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 kilograms ahi tuna steaks, 1-inch thick (or 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts); 3 Tbsps butter; 59 milliliters cilantro; 2 Tbsps ginger, fresh grated; 4 garlic cloves, pushed through garlic press; 79 milliliters green onion; 4 servings fresh ground pepper; 3 Tbsps lime juice, fresh squeezed; 2 Tbsps soy sauce (I suggest low-sodium); 2 Tbsps olive oil or 2 tablespoons peanut oil; 227 grams shiitake mushrooms, sliced; 355 milliliters whipping cream

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Tun From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 23 minutes.

Instructions

Heat oven to 200 degrees.2

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Oven

Heat a skillet on your stove to medium high.3 Grind a generous amount of pepper onto one side of tuna steaks (skip this if using chicken and see intro for instructions).4

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Tuna Steak

Whole Chicken

Pepper

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Frying Pan

Stove

Add oil to the pan. When it's very hot, add the tuna steaks, pepper side down. Cook for 1-2 minutes per side, until seared but still rare in the center.

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Tuna Steak

Pepper

Cooking Oil

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Frying Pan

Remove from the pan and keep warm on a plate, tented with foil, in a 200 degree oven.5 In the medium-high pan where you seared the tuna (or chicken), add butter, onion, ginger and garlic.

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Whole Chicken

Butter

Garlic

Ginger

Onion

Tuna

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Aluminum Foil

Oven

Frying Pan

Sautee for a minute, just until the garlic becomes translucent (don't let it brown).6

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Garlic

Add shiitakes and cook, without stirring, until they brown slightly.

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Shiitake Mushrooms

Add the soy sauce and cream.

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Soy Sauce

Cream

Let it cook until it thickens enough to coat the back of a spoon.

Add the lime juice and cilantro.7

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Lime Juice

Cilantro

Serve tuna, fish or chicken hot atop a bed of greens.

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Whole Chicken

Greens

Fish

Tuna

Add wasabi mashed potatoes alongside. Top all with the sauce, and garnish with cilantro or chive sprigs.

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Cilantro

Potato

Wasabi

Chives

Sauce

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Servings:

1kilograms

ahi tuna steaks, 1-inch thick (or 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts)3Tbsps

butter 59milliliters

cilantro 2Tbsps

ginger, fresh grated 4

garlic cloves, pushed through garlic press 79milliliters

green onion 4servings

fresh ground pepper 3Tbsps

lime juice, fresh squeezed 2Tbsps

soy sauce (I suggest low-sodium)2Tbsps

olive oil or 2 tablespoons peanut oil 227grams

shiitake mushrooms, sliced 355milliliters

whipping cream

Recommended wine: Merlot, Pinot Noir, Rose Wine

Tuna works really well with Merlot, Pinot Noir, and rosé Wine. Though fish is often paired with white wine, 'meatier' fish like tuna can absolutely go with red wine. A Rosé will also pair nicely, particularly if your tunan is prepared with ingredients better suited to a white wine. One wine you could try is Two Vines Columbia Valley Merlot. It has 4.2 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 7 dollars.