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Tuna Carpaccio
- Prep:
30 min
Ingredients
Carpaccio
- 3 pounds sashimi grade tuna
- 6 tablespoons pistachio roughly chopped
- 1 lemon zest only, blanched 3 times and thinly julienne
- 12 sprigs basil nice
Vinaigrette
- 1 cup extra virgin olive oil from provence
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 4 teaspoons Tabasco Chipotle pepper sauce
- dill to taste, chopped
- salt to taste (no pepper)
Tapenade
- 1 cup Nicoise olives pitted
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil from Provence
- 1/2 teaspoon Tabasco garlic pepper sauce
- no salt, no pepper
Method
Carpaccio- Place a 10” X 10” piece of plastic wrap on a cutting board.
- Drizzle 1 teaspoon of olive oil onto plastic wrap.
- Place a slice of tuna on top of wrap and drizzle 1 teaspoon of olive oil on top of tuna.
- Place an identical piece of plastic wrap on top of the tuna.
- With a kitchen mallet, gently pound tuna to paper thin, ensuring the consistency of the tuna is the same thinness.
- Repeat with remaining tuna, refrigerate and set aside.
- Mix all ingredients together and whisk enough to create tiny lemon/Chipotle sauce bubbles.
- Do not create a stable emulsion.
- Process Nicoise olives until coarsely ground.
- Slowly add Provence extra virgin olive oil.
- Finish with Tabasco garlic pepper sauce.
- Gently peel plastic off of the tuna, and place tuna on plate.
- Drizzle vinaigrette on top of tuna.
- Add chopped pistachios, confite lemon zest.
- With 2 spoons, shape a ‘football’ and place at center of the plate, on top of tuna.
- Top with a nice sprig of basil and serve.
