This recipes is for a delicious, tasty and fresh Poppy Seed Seared Tuna Bowl. This is made with just a few ingredients and really easy to make. Make it for lunch or dinner. This bowl is gluten free.
Love me a good tuna stake! Put it in a bowl and Im all yours. Today I made this Poppy Seed Seared Tuna Bowl. I had a whole package of poppy seeds at home and started to think what else besides baking I could use them for. Then I came up with the idea to use them as a crust for my tuna instead of using sesame seeds as I always do. And let me tell you, it might just be one of the best ideas I’ve ever had! The tuna steak turns out tender on the inside with the crunchy warm seared poppy seeds outside. The poppy seeds add both a wonderful color, crunchy texture and a bit of a nutty flavor. This bowl is served with red rice to make it more filling and healthy compared to white rice. Along with the tuna I added burrata that adds a fresh and creamy addition to this bowl, and sweet creamy mango. This bowl is both quick and easy to make, has a wonderful combination of different tastes and textures and is just so color and joyful. Make this tuna bowl for lunch or dinner.
A few tips:
- Use a good quality tuna steak.
- Take out the tuna steak from the fridge about 30 minutes before frying it, so that it reaches room temperature.
- The tuna steak should only be seared for 30 to maximum 60 seconds, otherwise it will turn out dry and boring. As delicious as a perfectly seared tuna steak is, just as boring is an over cooked one.
- Use a creamy and good quality burrata and not a cheaper one that is less creamy.
Ingredients for the Poppy Seed Crust Seared Tuna Bowl:
- Tuna Stake
- Poppy seeds
- Red rice
- Burrata
- Green leafs
- Mango
- Fennel
- Walnuts
- Black pepper
- Salt
- Olive oil
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Poppy Seed Seared Tuna Bowl
Ingredients
For the salad bowl
- 1 Tuna steak
- 1-2 tbsp Poppy seeds
- 3/4 dl Red rice
- 1 Burrata
- 2 hands full of Green leafs
- 1 Mango peeled, pitted and diced
- 2 tbsp Fennel thinly sliced
- 4-5 Walnuts roughly chopped
- Sea salt, to taste
- Black pepper, to taste
- Olive oil, to fry
Instructions
- Cook the rice according to the instructions.
- Put green leafs in a bowl, add the mango and burrata on top.
- Season the tuna steak with salt and pepper.
- Spread poppy seeds on a plate and cover the tuna steak with the seeds.
- Preheat a pan over medium/high heat with some olive oil.
- Fry the tuna steak for 30-60 seconds on each side.
- Cut the tuna into sliced and add to the bowl.
- Top with thinly sliced fennel and walnuts.