Tuna belongs to the type of mackerel - it is a very valuable fish for cooking. In size, it exceeds any other fish of this type. Tuna fillet is in great demand, as it is possible to prepare a variety of different pies, steaks, as well as salads, soups, etc. Fish is a part of many meat pizzas, its “traces” can be found in pasta or in some original snack. Tuna in itself serves as an excellent aphrodisiac.

In the US, tuna is known under the name of "sea chicken", despite the fact that its fillet is more like beef. The color of the meat is of a dark red tint, rather dense in structure and slightly layered. If you do not follow certain rules when cooking in the oven, it is easy to overdry. There are a lot of recipes for cooking tuna, let's look at some of them.

Steak Tuna

This recipe is suitable for all fish lovers. Tuna cooked in the form of a steak under a vegetable marinade will serve as an excellent side dish to your table.

To make it you need:

• Fish tuna 400 g
• Sesame oil 10 ml
• Vegetable oil    2 tbsp.
• Olive oil 50 g
• Tomatoes 3 pcs.
• Garlic 3 tooth.
• Bulgarian pepper    2 pcs.
• Basil a pair of twigs
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Dill and parsley    pair of branches
• Soy sauce 30 g

Let us examine the specifics of cooking:

1. We take deep dishes and in it we mix well with each other: lemon juice, olive oil, soy sauce, chopped garlic and sesame oil.
2. The fish must be washed thoroughly and of course dried.
3. Cut the tuna into steaks (should be about 2 cm thick).
4. All fish pieces put in a bowl with cooked marinade and sent to cool for 3 hours.
5. Pour oil (vegetable) into a frying pan and heat it.
6. Carefully fry steaks from all sides (minutes 4).
7. After frying, put the steaks in a clean dish and put a lid on top.
8. Wash and slice the pepper into strips.
9. Wash and cut the tomatoes into pieces (into quarters).
10. On a large fire, fry the chopped vegetables and lay out in a deep dish.
11. Finely chop the greens and put them on top of the cooked vegetables.

Tuna and vegetables together put on the table.

Fried tuna under pesto marinade

This is a delicious tuna recipe. Fish meat comes out excellent taste, gentle and from it comes a pleasant aroma.

It is necessary to prepare:

• Tuna (fillet in one piece)    1 kg
• Soy sauce
• Vegetable oil    2 tbsp.

Marinade consists of:

• Unrefined Olive Oil    250 ml
• Black pepper / salt    taste
• Garlic 3 tooth.
• Fresh basil bunch
• Grated cheese 100 g
• Cucumber (not too large)    1 PC.

Let's start cooking:

First, prepare the marinade:

1. We take a blender, pour basil (crushed with a knife), garlic (refined), olive oil (add along the way), everything should mix until a homogeneous mass.
2. Pour 1/3 of the resulting sauce into a saucepan.
3. Peel the cucumber and cut it into small pieces, put it in a saucepan and put it in the fridge.

Cooking the final dish:

1. We take a sauce based on soy and thoroughly rub it into tuna, then pour the fish cooked (as indicated above) with pesto from separate dishes.
2. Put the fish in the fridge (hold for about 6 hours), occasionally turning it over.
3. Heat the grill grate (pre-oil with the oil) and place the fish extracted from the marinade on it.
4. We put on a big fire and bake (from time to time the fish should be turned over and watered with plenty of marinade on top).
5. The fish will be ready when a dense brownish crust forms on top, and inside it should remain slightly damp (this effect will be obtained in about 15 minutes of roasting).
6. After being cooked, we cut the tuna into slices and spread it on a platter, pour pesto on top.

Attention, in order to avoid the crumbling of the fish during its turning when baking, it is necessary to use wooden blades.

Stuffed Tuna

Such tuna cooking will surely attract the attention of a large number of housewives. After all, you can not only tasty feed your family, but also greatly surprise your friends and acquaintances. The composition of the meat of this fish includes a large amount of vitamins: iodine, nickel, cobalt and other useful compounds.

You need to have these products (for eight servings):

• Tuna 2.5 kg
• Carrots 300 g
• Butter 170 g
• Black pepper (ground)    taste
• Tomatoes 400 g
• Vegetable oil    6 tbsp.
• Spices, salt to taste
• Onions 30 g
• Bay leaf 2 pcs.

Read more about cooking:

1. Carefully wash the tuna, getting rid of its skin (but so that it remains intact).
2. Bones extract and cut the fish into small pieces.
3. Clean the onions and grind it.
4. With the help of a grater we deal with a carrot.
5. Put 2 pans on the fire, pour vegetable oil in them and fry carrots in one, and onions in the other.
6. When the carrots fry, melt the butter there.
7. Use the grater to rub a tomato (throw away their rind).
8. In one frying pan, mix 1/3 onion with carrots and tomatoes, wait until it boils and put the “Lavrushka” along with the spices.
9. The meat of the fish exempted from bones is ground at the meat grinder or in the food processor.
10. To him add the remnants of onions and grated carrots. Salt the minced meat and fill with spices.
11. Intact fish skin and my stuff.
12. We take a deep dish, fill it with the bottom (pre-made) tomato sauce, and then put the fish and also pour it with tomato.
13. Cooking fish in the oven (at 180 degrees) for about one hour, while not forgetting to water it with tomato sauce during the process.

Now it's ready, you can cut it into pieces and on the table.

Never tried tuna fish, I came across only canned in cans, in appearance as a felt insole with a fishy smell, none to taste. Although reviews of this noble big fish   very good. On the market for the first time I saw frozen tuna fish, and the price was reasonable at about $ 3.5 per kilogram. Decided to buy to figure out what the real   tuna   to the taste. It was a blue tuna, chose a copy of a kilogram of 3.5 - 4.

Tuna filletturned out to be dense and not greasy and at the same time gentle, odorless. There are few bones and those are large. Scales tuna fishthe small is removed quickly, the carcass is easily cut, for portions, the feed is perfect, the pieces can be cut into large ones. Minced tuna fish   sure to get great. It seems I am starting to regret that I bought one fish.

It turns out there are a huge number of cooking recipes tuna fish, immediately and you can not figure out where to start, here and baked in the oven or grilled in various exotic sauces, raw salads tuna fish   or heat treated.

For starters, I decided to just   tuna fried.For the following reasons: a mixture of salt and pepper is used in almost all recipes, large portions can always be reduced, and the fish cooked in a large piece fully reveals its taste. Well, then, based on the results, let's see what tuna dishes can be cooked.

To prepare the dish "tuna fried" we need:

• 3-4 kg tuna fish   1 PC.,
• ground black pepper   1 pinch,
• salt 1 pinch,
• oil or olive oil for frying   70-80 gr.

Cutting large pieces of tuna fish fillet:

• Defrost tuna in a natural way, in no case use a microwave.

• Thawed tuna fish clean the scales, rinse in running water, dry with a kitchen or paper towel.

• We cut off the head of the fish and remove the insides, scraping the film from the inside of the abdomen and scraping the scales, it is so small, it is removed well.

• Well wash the gutted carcass tuna in running water, again dry with a kitchen towel or paper towel.

• With carcass tuna fish   we cut off the fins and tail with scissors or a knife.

• Make a cut along the ridge of fish.

• Remove the ridge and bones from the carcass tuna fish.

• We have two beautiful halves of the carcass tuna fish   without bones.

• In the same proportion we will prepare a mixture of salt and black pepper for rubbing fillets tuna fish.

How to cook fried tuna:

• Every half carcass tuna fish   cut into 4-5 portions.

• We rub, not thickly, with a mixture of pepper and salt portions tuna fish   outside.

• Rub a mixture of salt and pepper, not thickly, in portions tuna fish   from the inside.

• We give pieces of fish, grated salt and pepper for 20-30 minutes,

• In a pan, heat the vegetable oil or olive.

• We spread tuna fillet   in the pan with hot oil, skin down and fry for no more than 3 minutes.

• Then tuna fillet   turn and fry on the other side, too, until golden brown, but not more than 3 minutes.

• Fried tuna pieces are laid out in plates. Looks appetizing. Let cool 5-7 minutes.

To portion the piece fried tuna   For a garnish I tried slices of onion sprinkled with soy sauce, a couple of grapefruit slices without a shell, and a circle of lemon. The result exceeded all my expectations. It was a miracle no fish smell, meat fried tuna   it was juicy just melted in the mouth, nothing needed to add perfect harmony of taste. Stunned. Now I definitely regret not having bought more.

First four pieces fried tuna   ended in 10 minutes. The whole family sat at the table and waited for the decision of the fate of the second half of the carcass tuna fishlooking at the cutting table where she lay ...

Tomorrow prepare   with whatever be the sauce. I think you can experiment with sauces at your discretion and choose the seasonings that your region likes. Onion, soy sauce and lemon was purely my improvisation, which came to hand and seems to be a success. The combination of taste is excellent.

Based on the result, tuna fish   can bake in the oven   25-30 minutes, preheated to 170-180 degrees, periodically pouring fish forming juice from a baking sheet.

Still as an option baked tuna in the ovenpreheated to 170-180 degrees, for 15 minutes, if it is pre-wrapped in foil.

Tuna baked in the oven, is so tasty and fragrant that it is not necessary to add any spices and spices, only a mixture of salt and allspice. Lightly rub the portions with it. Amazing fish.

Really tuna   sea ​​cow.

Enjoy your meal!!! ...

The first recipe for cooking tuna, which I decided on, was the simplest - fried tuna in a frying pan. It turned out that cooking tuna is very easy! The fish turned out so delicious that we were ready to eat tuna for breakfast, lunch and dinner with anything and without anything! Personally, my opinion is that the less to conjure over this fish, the tastier it will turn out. Salt, fragrant black pepper, frying oil - and the culinary masterpiece is ready!

At the expense of fresh tuna opinions are different. Someone thinks that this fish is rather dry and needs to be cooked with sauce, for someone the tuna is the most delicious, barely roasted, and someone else can eat raw tuna meat. We didn’t decide on raw foods, although the fish was the freshest, just a couple of hours from the ocean. I don't like weak roasting fish, so it was decided to simply fry the first tuna in oil with pepper and salt. And so that the fried tuna did not turn out dry, they preliminarily marinated tuna steaks in soy marinade. For the first time they decided to make secure - suddenly and the truth is the tuna is not very juicy and it needs a sauce or marinade. I also added a little paprika, but this is not necessary, you can do with ground black pepper.

Tuna fried in a pan - a recipe with photos

• Tuna steaks - 2 pcs;
• ground paprika - 2-3 pinches per steak;
• freshly ground black pepper - 0.5 tsp. on steak;
• sea ​​salt - to taste (I have 2 pinches per steak);
• soy sauce (lightly salted) - 2 tbsp. l on steak;
• refined vegetable oil - 4-5 Art. l (for frying fish).

Salt and pepper tuna steaks with freshly ground black pepper. First sprinkle on one side and rub into the meat, then turn over and also prepare the other side of the steak. Slightly sprinkle with paprika powder (if desired, this is not necessary).

Sprinkle with soy sauce steaks, leave under the film or cover with a lid. Marinated tuna for 10-15 minutes, but you can and longer, for about half an hour to keep. Just during this time, you will be able to chop a vegetable salad or prepare a side dish for tuna - boil rice or potatoes (for our taste it is better to fry).

Before frying the cut of the fish carcass I fasten with toothpicks, it can be seen in the photo. You just need to fix the edges of the fish steak so that you get a rounded piece. If you do not do this, the taste of the tuna will not get worse, but the fish will open up, turn around and turn out not very neat. Heat the vegetable oil in the pan. Put tuna steaks in hot oil. Fry on the one hand for about 3-4 minutes, it all depends on the desired degree of frying fish. Use a spatula or two forks to pry, turn them over and fry on the other side until ready. You can fry for a minute or two, then turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid. Tuna comes to readiness.

Serve tuna fried in a pan should be immediately, as fry the fish (or hold a few minutes under the lid). Garnish for fish, you can choose any - rice, vegetables, potatoes, lentils, vegetable stews and much more.

We have fried tuna in a pan served without a side dish, with fresh tomatoes, herbs and a slice of lime.