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Gastronomy

By Débora Chomski

Recipe for tuna cubes with a sauce of toasted almonds and fresh cranberries

Ingredients (for 4 people)

  • Tuna cubes (50-70 g each), 8
  • Casher salt and pepper: to taste
  • Virgin olive oil: 3 tbsp
For the sauce:
  • Fish broth or fumet (fish broth with white wine added during cooking): 200 cc
  • Clove of garlic, crushed, 1
  • Marcona Almond (split in halves), 150 g
  • Maize starch (Maizena): 1-2 tsp
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • Virgin olive oil, 1 tbsp
  • Casher salt and pink pepper, to taste
For garnishing:
  • Cranberries, 1 small box
  • Crushed almonds, 50 g

Preparation
  • Toast the almonds on a baking sheet in the oven at 180º for 10-15 minutes until golden. (You can also do it in a frying pan)
  • Put a tbsp of oil and the crushed garlic in a frying pan and sauté lightly.
  • Add the fumet, the dissolved maize starch and the lemon juice and stir well.
  • Bring to the boil, then add the almonds. Boil for three minutes and then take it off the fire.
  • Season with salt and pepper, purée the sauce and pass through a fine sieve.
  • In another frying pan heat three tbsp of olive oil on a medium heat and briefly toast the tuna cubes on all sides.
  • The interior of the fish should remain nearly raw.

Presentation
Place two cubes of tuna on each plate, add some sauce and garnish with cranberries and crushed almonds.

Gastronomy

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