How To Make Linguine with Seared Tuna and Green-Olive Tapenade
Crispy on the outside, and soft on the inside seared tuna is served atop tender linguine coated in a salty tapenade sauce, for a filling dinner meal!
Serves:
Ingredients
- ½cupgreen olives,pitted
- cupflat leaf parsley,lightly packed
- 1garlic clove
- ½tspanchovy paste
- 7tbspolive oil
- 1½tsplemon juice
- ½tspsalt
- ½tspfresh ground black pepper
- 1lbtuna steak
- ¾lblinguine
Instructions
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In a food processor or blender, pulse the olives, parsley, and garlic to a coarse puree with the anchovy paste, 6 tablespoons of the olive oil, the lemon juice, and ¼ teaspoon each of the salt and pepper. Put ¾ of the mixture in a large bowl.
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Heat a grill pan or heavy frying pan over moderate heat.
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Coat the tuna with the remaining 1 tablespoon oil and season with the remaining ¼ teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper.
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Cook for about 1½ minutes per side.
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Remove the tuna. Let sit for 3 minutes, then cut it into ¼-inch slices.
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In a large pot of boiling, salted water, cook the linguine for about 12 minutes, until just done. Reserve about ½ cup of the pasta water.
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Drain the linguine, add it and ¼ cup of the reserved pasta water to the bowl with the olive mixture, and toss. If the sauce seems too thick, add more of the reserved pasta water.
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Mound the pasta on plates and top with the tuna. Spoon the remaining olive mixture on top.
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Serve warm, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 674.09kcal
- Fat: 27.85g
- Saturated Fat: 4.02g
- Trans Fat: 0.02g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 19.24g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 3.35g
- Carbohydrates: 64.85g
- Fiber: 3.41g
- Sugar: 2.43g
- Protein: 39.22g
- Cholesterol: 44.65mg
- Sodium: 565.10mg
- Calcium: 38.16mg
- Potassium: 722.21mg
- Iron: 2.41mg
- Vitamin A: 33.73µg
- Vitamin C: 4.18mg
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