Tuna with Ginger-Mushroom Cream Sauce

"I found this recipe on the web a few years back. You can tell its not one of my experiments, no hot peppers. It is one of my favorites and I get rave reviews when I cook it for friends. It works well with mahi mahi as too, though mahi mahi shouldn't be eaten rare. Not health food, but hey, that's what Decadent Saturdays are for."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 5mins
Ingredients:
12
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat two tablespoons vegetable oil in a non-stick skillet over high heat.
  • Pepper one side of the tuna steaks, place pepper side down and sear for two minutes.
  • Turn tuna over and continue cooking, about two minutes for rare, four for medium.
  • Transfer tuna to plate and keep warm.
  • Add olive oil, green onions, cilantro, ginger and garlic to same skillet and saute about 30 seconds.
  • Mix in mushrooms and soy sauce and simmer 30 seconds for shiitake, 1 minute for morels.
  • Add half and half and simmer until thickened, about 3-4 minutes.
  • Stir in lime juice.
  • Spoon sauce onto plates and place tuna steak on top.
  • Garnish with cilantro and a slice of pickled ginger.

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Reviews

  1. loved the sauce, didn't have half & half, I used cashew milk and added a corn starch slurry. We also had cauliflower/fried rice with it, the sauce was nice on that too
     
  2. Great recipe. Loved the sauce but would also be great with chicken breasts. I served with wasabi mashed potatoes and loved the sauce over those too. Very versatile recipe, could be used with pasta.
     
  3. Both hubby and I vote that - YES! - this is a recipe we're going to be using often in the future. :) I used a combination of morels and reconstituted porcini mushrooms, and also added blanched and sauteed fiddlehead fern heads. Absolutely delicious!
     
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