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, photo by Naomi Sherman
, nutritional review by Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDE
in Recipes, Dinner, Lunch, Meal Sesame-crusted tuna steaks with wasabi mayo and bok choy
Cooking fresh tuna can be intimidating, but it's one of the easiest fish to cook. It's healthy, loaded with nutrients, and ready in a flash. Paired with wasabi mayo and bok choy fried in garlic, this high protein keto meal is sure to impress the eye and the palate.
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Ingredients
Wasabi mayo
- 4 tbsp 4 tbsp mayonnaise
- ½ tbsp ½ tbsp wasabi paste
- ½ tbsp ½ tbsp lime juice
Garlic fried bok choy
- ½ tbsp ½ tbsp coconut oil or light olive oil
- 2 2 garlic clove, slicedgarlic cloves, sliced
- 1 lb 450 g bok choy, halved or savoy cabbage, quartered
- 1 tbsp 1 tbsp tamari soy sauce
Sesame crusted tuna steaks
- 1 tbsp 1 tbsp sesame seeds (preferably a mix of white and black)
- 1 tbsp 1 tbsp almond flour
- salt and pepper
- 1 lb 450 g fresh tuna fillet steaks (1 per serving)fresh tuna fillets steaks (1 per serving)
- ½ tbsp ½ tbsp coconut oil or light olive oil
Optional garnish
- ½ (¼ oz.) ½ (7.5 g) scallion, finely sliced diagonallyscallions, finely sliced diagonally (optional)
- ½ ½ red chili pepperred chili peppers (optional)
- ½ ½ lime, wedgeslimes, wedges (optional)
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Instructions
- Mix the mayonnaise with the wasabi paste and lime juice in a bowl. Set aside.
- Heat up a large frying pan with coconut oil and garlic on medium-high heat. Place the bok choy in the pan and fry until it gets some color.
- Turn the leaves and drizzle the soy sauce on top. Continue frying for a couple of minutes or until the bok choy has softened a bit. Remove them from the pan and keep warm.
- Add the sesame seeds, almond flour, salt, and pepper to a plate and mix until combined. Press the tuna steaks down into the mixture on both sides until covered.
- Add coconut oil to a hot pan and fry the tuna steaks until preferred doneness. We recommend only frying it for a minute on each side so it will still be juicy and rare inside.
- Serve the tuna steaks with the bok choy and the wasabi mayo. Garnish with optional scallions, chili, and lime wedges for a vibrant presentation and a boost of flavor.
So is the portion per serving of tuna steak is 8 ounces (or an 8 ounce slice?) My local market sent me home with their usual size of between 5 and 5.8 oz. per portion. Does the “1 per serving” refer to “1 lb. per serving” or “8 oz. per serving” or even, “1 portion as prepared by your market per serving?”
It is a total of 8oz per serving. If your cuts are smaller than that, you can adjust as needed.