Tag: beans

The simplicity and flavour of this summer dish are fantastic. Buy your tuna steaks about 1cm/½ inch thick rather than going for massive inch-thick ones.
That way they cook quickly, giving you a juicy, silky steak that hasnt had a chance to dry out. If you cant get hold of tuna, then shark and swordfish are reasonably good steak-like alternatives.

This is a really beautiful summer dish that takes hardly any time at all to prepare and of course you can use different kinds of beans, such as black-eyed beans, flageolets, butter beans or even lentils. It's a terrific hot snack or main dish and with the tuna all torn up it makes a great salad.
I like to griddle the tuna for a minute on each side so it has colour on the outside but still remains a little pink in the middle.
A lot of people still want to cook tuna all the way through (which I think is madness!), but you must do it how you like best. It's worth seeing if you prefer it pink in the middle though.