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Cooking, Seafood

Sesame Crusted Tuna Fish Fingers

This is so simple that it hardly demands a recipe, but it is so tasty I feel compelled to share. I bought a big wodge of tuna to make my recent Tuna Tartare with Blood Orange & Radicchio and I had some leftover which I needed to use. It was a particularly excellent piece of sushi grade tuna and whatever I did with it would be good. I thought about just frying it, but I wanted more, and so my mind wandered back to some almond crusted tuna that I had years back in a restaurant in Sicily, and I wondered how a covering of sesame seeds would work instead. I love their flavour and their nutty texture. 

I love fish fingers, which is a funny thing as I remember distinctly deciding that I hated them and would never eat them again when I was about 3 or 4 in my aunts house. That would start a childhood of freakish food habits. There were foods that I loved (potato, beans, eggs, rhubarb, apples, gooseberries, CRISPS!) and everything else was pretty much rejected. I would starve myself and spent hours at my grandmothers table watching my cousins and siblings playing outside. I was not allowed to move until I ate my meal, which I never would. I am stubborn, and it has served me well. 

I have come back around to the fish finger now, especially made at home with hake or halibut or the posher ones from the supermarket on rare occasion. I have even embraced the fish finger sandwich slathered with peas and mint and a slick of mayo. I think this must be an English thing as I never came across it until I moved here (Irish readers: am I wrong?!). I figured tuna in a sesame jacket, crisp outside and rare with, might raise my fish finger game a little. It did. 

I served mine with a miso mayo, but if you want peas and mint go ahead, and blitz them a little to make a dip. Chilli mayo works well too. Recipes for both mayo recipes are included below. 

Other Eat Like a Girl recipes for tuna lovers

Almond Crusted Tuna with Chilli Roast Pumpkin, Wilted Lettuce, Tomato & Curry Leaves

Cooking in Sabah: Two Healthy Sea Gypsy Recipes (Fish Soup & a Fish Salad)

Other tuna recipes you might like to try

Tuna Tataki from Just One Cookbook

Tuna toasties for a busy Friday night from Cooksister

Gorgeous recent blog posts from elsewhere

Fish Cakes and Salad. The Sea, The Sea – from The Little Library Cafe, a gorgeous blog penned by Kate sharing recipes inspired by literature. 

PEA SOUP WITH PANCETTA AND MINT, JUST LIKE ME… – from the lovely Jul’s Kitchen, a gorgeous Tuscan cooking blog.

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Recipe: Sesame Crusted Tuna Fish Fingers

Ingredients

    per person
  • 300g tuna, cut into fish finger size widths (about an inch wide and 3 inches long)
  • 1 egg
  • 100g flour (plain flour or rice flour or similar if you are gluten free)
  • 100g sesame seeds
  • sea salt and black pepper
  • light oil for frying like groundnut or rapeseed - enough to fill the pan you are going to fry in to an inch deep
    miso mayo
  • 2 tbsp mayo, 1tbsp miso of your choice, 1 tbsp soy sauce
    Korean chilli mayo
  • 2 tbsp mayo
  • 2 tbsp gojuchang (Korean pepper paste)
  • a squeeze of fresh lime juice
    optional garnish
  • fresh coriander leaves and edible flowers (I used wild garlic flowers)

Instructions

  • Season the flour with sea salt and black pepper. Put the flour, beaten egg and sesame seeds in three different plates. Dust each piece of tuna with flour, then dip it in the egg ensuring it is completely covered, let the excess drip off and then coat in the sesame seeds, pressing them in as you do.
  • Heat your oil until a piece of bread will sizzle in it when you add it, or until it is 180 deg C if you have a thermometer. Fry the tuna fingers, in batches if you are making a lot, ensuring that you raise the temperature of the oil between batches too as the tuna will cool it down. When golden, turn the tuna over gently with a tongs or a fork. Just for a minute each side if you like your tuna rare.
  • When removing them, allow the excess oil to drop off before putting them on several layers of kitchen paper for a couple of minutes to drain any excess that might have remained.
  • Eat immediately with the mayo of your choice.
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    April 6, 2016by Niamh
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    Orange & Hazelnut Cake (Gluten & Dairy Free & Joy Full!)

    Orange & Hazelnut Cake

    I wouldn’t say that I am bloodthirsty. Sure, I like my steak rare, and I can deal with the sight of blood. But sometimes I get upset when I don’t see any, in my blood oranges at least. I was slicing through a batch yesterday, perpetually disappointed to see only occasionally blushes and not enough rushing red. So annoyed was I that I accidentally cut through my own finger in my rush, and yes, there was blood, but not the kind of blood that I was hoping for.

    I was on a mission. I love Italian polenta and almond cakes. I had a slice for the first time in Gelupo in London not long after it first opened and it stopped me in my tracks. Literally, I was eating it on the run (it was that kind of day), and I stopped and looked at that simple cake and thought about what a surprise it was. So understated to look at, but bursting with flavour beneath. My kind of flavours, not too sweet and a little crumbly. This is a perfect breakfast cake. It made the cut in my first book as a kind of a muffin. Italians love to have cake for breakfast and they do everything else right so why not?! I have embraced it.

    Last week, I spotted a gorgeous version that Kellie from Food to Glow had cooked, an upside down blood orange polenta cake. It got me thinking. I still had wonderful IGP hazelnuts from my last trip to Piedmont that I needed to use. I had a wonderful coarse bright yellow polenta that I had bought in an Italian deli in town. And I had some blood oranges.

    This cake is dairy free and gluten free too. Sometimes I mix in some plain flour too to make it a little softer but it isn’t essential and the stoneground polenta I used gave it a brilliant flavour and a coarsely textured crumb which worked very well. Each way is very palatable, go with flour if you fancy something a little less coarse and a bit cake-ier (substitute 75g plain flour for 50g polenta). 

    Enjoy, and embrace cake for breakfast. It is a beautiful thing!

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    Prep Time: 20 minutes

    Cook Time: 40 minutes

    Total Time: 60 minutes

    Orange and Hazelnut Cake

    Orange & Hazelnut Cake

    Ingredients

    • 150ml rapeseed or olive oil
    • 125g soft brown sugar
    • 150g polenta or cornmeal
    • 1 tsp baking powder
    • 175g ground hazelnuts (I ground whole ones in my food processor)
    • 3 large eggs
    • 3 oranges - the rind and juice of 2 for the cake, the remaining sliced with the rind & pith removed
    • juice of half a lemon
    • one cake tin approx 20cm or 7/8 inches
    • greaseproof paper / baking parchment

    Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 180 deg C.
  • Mix the oil and the sugar well.
  • Add the rest of the ingredients, excluding the orange slices for the top of the cake, and mix very well. I use a mixer but a wooden spoon and elbow grease would work very well too. You will end with a wet grainy batter.
  • Prepare your orange slices by removing the skin and pith with a sharp knife and slicing into narrow slices.
  • Line your tin with greaseproof paper and arrange the orange slices in a layer.
  • Pour the batter on top (give it a good mix before you pour it in) and bake it for 35 - 40 minutes until the top is set and gives only a little when you push on it. Don't worry if it has risen unevenly, it will relax as it cools.
  • Allow to cool and serve sliced with a light dusting of icing sugar on top.
  • Store any leftovers in an air tight container for a few days.
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    March 11, 2016by Niamh


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