15-Minute Asian Tuna - Healthy Food Tip and Recipe

Today's Recipe
If you don't know what to serve for dinner tonight ...
Our Quick Broil method of cooking is perfect for preparing seared tuna as tuna tastes best when not cooked through. The combination of tuna, shiitake mushrooms, and seasonings adds a wonderful Asian flavor to your Healthiest Way of Eating.
15-Minute Asian Tuna
Prep and Cook Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:

• 4 6 oz tuna steaks
• 1 TBS fresh lemon juice
• 1 cup minced scallion
• 3 medium cloves garlic, pressed
• 1 TBS minced fresh ginger
• 2 cups thickly sliced fresh shiitake mushrooms (remove stems)
• 1 TBS chicken broth
• 1 cup fresh squeezed orange juice
• 2 TBS soy sauce
• 2 TBS chopped cilantro
• salt and white pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Preheat the broiler on high and place an all stainless steel skillet (be sure the handle is also stainless steel) or cast iron pan about 5 inches from the heat for about 10 minutes to get it very hot.
2. Press garlic and let sit for 5 minutes to bring out its health-promoting benefits.
3. Rub tuna with lemon juice and season with a little salt and white pepper. Set aside.
4. Heat 1 TBS broth in a 10-12 inch stainless steel skillet on the stovetop. Healthy Sauté scallion, garlic, ginger, and mushrooms in broth for about 2 minutes, stirring constantly over medium heat.
5. Add orange juice and cook for another 2 minutes. Add soy sauce and cilantro.
6. Using a hot pad, pull out broiler pan and place tuna in hot pan and return pan to broiler. Keep in mind it is cooking rapidly on both sides, so it is done very quickly, usually in 2-3 minutes, depending on thickness.
7. Place tuna on plates and pour mushroom sauce over each piece. Or you can lay a bed of mushroom sauce on each plate and place tuna on top.

Serves 4 Serve with

• Napa Cabbage Salad
• Seaweed Rice

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Healthy Food Tip
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• Use of 100% organic feed
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• No use of irradiation to preserve meats
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• No use of growth promoters or growth hormones
• No use of plastic pellets for roughage in feed
• No use of antibiotics
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When it comes to the raising of all animals, these organic rules must be applied no later than the second day of life for poultry, and no later than the last third of gestation (pregnancy) for other animals.