It’s a wonderful summer dish. The marinade works well for cooking tuna as well. I typically serve this with either my fennel salad or my spinach salad with my passion fruit-dijon vinaigrette. It can be put on top of lettuce, thinly sliced cabbage, or fennel, or it can be served over steamed white rice. It goes well with a fruity cocktail, a bottle of light, fruity wine, or a glass of passion fruit lemonade.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 5 mins |
| Additional Time: | 2 hrs |
| Total Time: | 2 hrs 20 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 3 blackberries
- ½ cup passion fruit juice
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh parsley
- 1 pinch sea salt
- 1 pinch ground black pepper
- 4 (6 ounce) ahi tuna steaks
- ½ stalk green onion, thinly sliced
Instructions
- Crush blackberries in a bowl until smooth. Add passion fruit juice, soy sauce, lemon juice, honey, parsley, sea salt, and pepper and stir until marinade is thoroughly mixed.
- Place tuna in a glass dish and pour marinade over top; flip several times to coat. Cover the dish with plastic wrap and marinate in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
- Remove tuna from the marinade and shake off excess. Discard the remaining marinade.
- Heat a nonstick skillet over medium-high to high heat. Sear tuna in the hot skillet for 1 to 1 1/2 minutes per side.
- Remove from the skillet and slice into 1/4-inch thick slices.
- If grilling, set aside a portion of the marinade. Preheat an outdoor grill for high heat and lightly oil the grate. Cook tuna on the preheated grill for 2 minutes. Turn and brush marinade over the cooked sides. Cook 2 more minutes for rare, 2 to 4 more minutes for medium-rare to medium, and 4 more minutes for medium to medium-well.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 227 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 10 g |
| Cholesterol | 77 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 41 g |
| Saturated Fat | 0 g |
| Sodium | 823 mg |
| Sugars | 9 g |
| Fat | 2 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |