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Japanese Style Tuna on Potato Rosti with Wasabi Sauce

Ingredients :
MARINADE
4	x	175 g Tuna Steaks, (approximately 2.5cm / 1 inch thick)
4	tbl	Sake
4	tbl	Soy Sauce
1	tsp	Chilli Oil
1/2	x	Lemon, (juice)
1	tbl	Vegetable Oil
POTATO ROSTI
450	gm	Baking Potatoes, (peeled and par-boiled)
		Salt and Freshly Ground Black Pepper
2	tbl	Clarified Butter, (for frying)
		Oil for Frying
CUCUMBER SALSA
1/2	x	Cucumber
1/2	x	Red Onion, (peeled and cut into very thin wedges)
1	tsp	Sugar
1	tbl	Hot Water
1/2	x	Lemon, (juice)
2	tbl	Rice Wine Vinegar
1	x	Red Chilli, (de-seeded and thinly sliced)
WASABI SAUCE
2	tsp	Wasabi Paste
90	ml	Natural Yoghurt
1/2	x	Lemon, (juice)

How to cook :

1. Place all the marinade ingredients in a bowl and mix together well.
Add the tuna, cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
2. Prepare the salsa. Cut the cucumber in half lengthways, remove the seeds with a spoon, cut each half into thirds and then thinly slice.
Cut the red onion into thin wedges.
To make the dressing, dissolve the sugar in a little hot water, add the lemon juice and rice wine vinegar and mix together well.
In a small bowl, mix together the cucumber, red onion and red chilli.
Add the dressing and toss all the ingredients together3.
Mix together the wasabi, natural yoghurt and lemon juice4.
Meanwhile, prepare the rosti.
Grate the cold potatoes and mould into 4 balls, flatten slightly.
Heat the oil in a frying pan, add the potatoes and cook for 2 to 3 minutes on each side5.
Heat a griddle pan and cook the tuna steaks for 4 minutes on each side, or until just opaque in the centre.
6. Place the rosti on four serving plates, place the tuna steaks on top and arrange a pile of cucumber salsa by the side.
Serve with the wasabi sauce.

Tags : Starter One Fish Tubers Root Vegetable Japanese Japan Asian Oriental