Serious Eats: Recipes
Dinner Tonight: Seared Sesame Tuna with Chili Mayonnaise
I was in an awful mood. It doesn’t happen too often (you’d have to ask the fiancée for a complete total), but it made for a tense evening. Cooking is usually a therapeutic process, but not that night. Neither of us had any desire to leave the house, but the fridge wasn’t holding any answers to the dilemma. A quick glance in the freezer revealed some frozen tuna filets (a long ago purchase from Trader Joe’s), and after a quick google search I found seared sesame tuna filet with wasabi mayonnaise. It sounded vaguely exotic and yet I had everything ready to go.
Well, almost. The only thing I didn’t have was the wasabi, but I did possess some red chili paste. I’d have the kick. But I was a tad leery about mixing the Asian cooking staple with my true-blue American Hellmann’s. The fears amounted to nothing, as the sauce came together perfectly and provided the key balance to this fantastic dish.