While canned tuna recipes are undoubtedly a favourite, fresh tuna can be just as quick and easy to prepare. It can be as simple as lightly searing each side for beautifully tender and delicate results. Here, we’ve pulled together a few of our best tuna recipes for your inspiration. From light, fresh salads perfect for spring dinners to a tasty tuna tartare to impress, these delicious dishes are sure to be winners.
Tuna carpaccio with Asian salad
Quick, healthy, and wholesome tuna carpaccio – the perfect Asian inspired dinner for the busier nights! Suitable for the 2-Day Fast Diet.
Warm tuna and green tea noodle salad
You can use brown sugar instead of the palm sugar. Green tea soba noodles are flavoured with powdered green tea and are available from Asian food stores and in the Asian food section of most large supermarkets. Use plain dried soba noodles, if you like. Note
Chermoula tuna, chickpea and broad bean salad
This flavour-packed salad is full of the goodness of legumes and tuna, with great protein to fuel you for the day. Topped with a zesty chermoula dressing, it is wonderfully fresh and healthy.
Tuna with olive and tomato butter, white bean mash and cavalo nero
Not suitable to freeze. Cavalo nero suitable to microwave. This recipe is also delicious with white fish, chicken breast or thin steaks. You can use black or green tapenade or substitute good quality basil or rocket pesto. Cavalo nero doesn’t lose volume like spinach or silverbeet, though either of these can be substituted if cavalo […]
Tuna tartare
Wonton cups can be prepared a day ahead and stored in an airtight container. You need 3 x 12-hole (1-tablespoon/20ml) mini muffin pans. If you only have one pan, that is fine, just cook the wonton cases in batches. You could also serve the tuna tartare in a bowl with a pile of home-cooked prawn […]
Grilled tuna with chilled soba salad
Japanese flavours permeate this dish, from the soy mirin dressing to the crispy nori shreds on top of the grilled tuna.
Sesame tuna steaks with nori rice
The crunchy sesame seed crust on the tuna gives a nutty aroma while leaving the tuna rare. Note
Seared tuna with verjuice dressing
Verjuice dressing strikes the perfect savoury note to lift this seared tuna on potatoes, eggs and vegetables out of the realm of the ordinary. A deconstructed salad nicoise that makes the perfect lunch to serve friends on the weekend.
Toasted tuna sandwiches with pineapple & avocado salsa
These sandwiches are so chunky and rustic, and most importantly, delicious!
Anchovy and garlic tuna with tomato and oregano
Served on a feta and black olive mash, these tender slices of tuna cooked in tomato and anchovy will melt in your mouth.
