Grilled Lemon-Marinated Tuna With Cherry Tomato Splat

By á-174942

Ingredients

• FOR THE TUNA:
• 4 fresh rosemary sprigs - (ea abt 4" long)
• 3 pounds center-cut tuna cut 6 slices
• 2 about 2" thick
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• Grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
• FOR THE SPLAT:
• 1 lemon
• 2 fresh rosemary springs - (ea abt 4" long)
• 1 garlic clove sliced paper-thin
• 2 teaspoons finely-minced fresh red hot pepper
• 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
• 2 pounds cherry tomatoes briefly plunged
• into boiling, then cold water, skins
• removed

Details

Servings 6

Preparation

Step 1

Prepare the Tuna: Remove the leaves from the rosemary sprigs. Marinate the sliced tuna with the rosemary leaves, olive oil and lemon zest and juice for about 1 hour.

Prepare the Splat: Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Peel the zest from the lemon, using a vegetable peeler, and finely julienne. Juice the lemon. Combine the lemon zest and juice, rosemary, garlic, hot pepper, salt and oil in a heatproof bowl.

Place the tomatoes on a baking sheet or jelly-roll pan and roast for 12 minutes. Immediately place the roasted tomatoes into the heatproof bowl. Smash them with a fork and incorporate the other ingredients. The intense heat of the tomatoes will cook the other ingredients.

Start a fire in a grill. Grill the tuna for 2 minutes on each side, until pink inside.

Serve immediately with Tomato Splat.

This recipe yields 6 servings.