Tuna Steaks On Soba Noodles

By pixen

A simple, healthy way of cooking tuna served with soba, japanese buckwheat noodles.

Ingredients

• 300 g Tuna Steak
• 200 g Soba Noodles (Buckwheat Noodle)
• 6 stalks Spring Onions, sliced thinly
• 1 clove Garlic, crushed or finely chopped
• 3-4 tbl Fish Sauce
• 2 tbl Sweet Chilli Sauce
• 2 tsp Palm Sugar, grated or Soft Brown Sugar
• 1 tsp Sesame Oil
• 4 tbl Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• 2 nos Lime- only for juice
• 20-30 g Coriander, chopped or Flat Parsley

Preparation

Step 1

1. To make dressing, place the lime juice, fish sauce, chili sauce, sugar, sesame oil and garlic in a small bowl. Mix well.
2. Heat olive oil in a griddle pan. Add the tuna steak and cook over high heat for 2-3 minutes on each side or to your preferences. Remove and keep warm.
3. Cooked noodles according to manufacturer's instructions or boil it until softens. Drain well. In another bowl, add half of the dressing. half of spring onion and coriander to the noodles and gently toss together.
4. Cut the tuna steaks into even cubes, slice it or roughly shred the steaks using a fork like I did.
5. Place noodles in serving plates and top with tuna. Mix the remaining dressing with balance of spring onion and coriander. Drizzle over tuna and noodles. Garnish with lime wedges.

Note: If you prefer, you can serve the tuna steaks whole with noodles of your choice on the side. Besides using soba noodles, you can try other noodles as well like thin wheat noodles, egg noodles or pastas...