Tunarisotto Recipes

CREAMY TUNA RISOTTO

Steps:

• Par boil rice in chicken broth for 5 minutes or until slightly softened.
• Drain and set aside BOTH rice AND broth.
• Brown garlic, pepper, celery and onion over medium heat.
• Mix in rice and rosemary, and ladle broth over top until rice is covered. Lower to medium-low heat. Cover and cook for 10-15 minutes.
• While rice is cooking, cube the tuna steak (about 1/2 inch cubes), season with black pepper and pan sear on high heat for 30 seconds on each side. Lay on top of rice and let cook at least five minutes.
• Heat broiler to 350°F.
• When rice is soft and broth fully reduced, mix in cream. Let cook two minutes and then set aside to steam for five minutes.
• Cut thin slices of mozzarella.
• Dish risotto into oven safe plates (ceramic pie plates work wonderfully) and cover with mozzarella slices and toss under broiler for 2-5 minutes, until cheese is melted and begins browning.
• Serve immediately.

BAKED TUNA RISOTTO

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 200°C.
• Heat an ovenproof dish (with a lid) over a medium heat with oil. Add onion, garlic and sea salt and stir for five minutes, or until the onion is soft.
• Add the rice to the dish and stir for another minute.
• Add the stock and the chopped tomatoes and bring to simmering point. Stir in the tuna and zucchinis and season with black pepper.
• Cover the dish, transfer to the oven and bake the risotto for 30 minutes, or until cooked.
• Garnish with parsley and serve with parmesan if desired.

TUNA RISOTTO NAPOLITANA

Steps:

• Heat stock in a saucepan and keep on the plate next to where you are making your rice. Keep hot.
• Heat oil in frying pan and add onion and garlic. Saute until soft.
• Stir in rice and cook 3 minutes until grains are coated with oil.
• Add 1 cup stock and stir until liquid is absorbed.
• Continue stirring in remaining stock 1 cup at a time until rice is tender and mixture is creamy. If rice is cooked after 3 cups don't add the 4th.
• Fold in tuna, herbs, semi-dried tomatoes, olives, lemon rind and juice, chilli and seasoning.
• To serve place paremsan shavings on top, extra chopped herbs and if desired a drizzle of olive oil.

TUNA RISOTTO

Steps:

• Heat olive oil and fry off onions, garlic and sea salt and stir for 5 minutes, or until onion is soft.
• Add rice and stir for 1 minute.
• Add stock and tomatoes bring to simmering point.
• Stir in Tuna.
• Cover and cook for 30 minutes or until rice is cooked.
• 5 minutes before serving, stir in peas.

TUNA RISOTTO FROM THE PANTRY

Steps:

• Drain the tuna over a bowl. Stir the tuna water into the chicken or vegetable stock. Taste and add more salt as needed for a well-seasoned stock. Break up the tuna in a bowl, and add to it 1 of the garlic cloves, 1 tablespoon of the olive oil, and the parsley. Set aside.
• Bring the stock to a simmer in a saucepan and turn the heat to low.
• Heat the remaining tablespoon of oil over medium heat in a large nonstick frying pan or wide saucepan and add the onion. Cook, stirring, until tender, about 5 minutes, and add the remaining garlic. Cook, stirring, for about a minute, until the garlic is fragrant, and stir in the anchovies and tomatoes. Cook, stirring, until the tomatoes have cooked down and the mixture is fragrant, 5 to 10 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Add the rice and cook, stirring, until the grains of rice are separate and well coated with the tomato mixture, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Stir in the wine and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly. The wine should bubble, but not too quickly. You want some of the flavor to cook into the rice before it evaporates. When the wine has just about evaporated, rub the saffron between your fingertips and stir in, along with a ladleful or two of the simmering stock, enough to just cover the rice. The stock should bubble slowly. Cook, stirring often and vigorously, until it is just about absorbed. Add another ladleful of the stock and continue to cook in this fashion, not too fast and not too slowly, adding more stock when the rice is almost dry, for 20 to 25 minutes. Taste a bit of the rice. It should taste chewy but not hard in the middle. Definitely not soft like steamed rice. If it is still hard in the middle, you need to keep adding stock and cook for another 5 minutes or so. Taste and adjust salt.
• When the rice is cooked al dente, stir in the tuna mixture and peas and add another ladleful or two of stock and several twists of the peppermill. Stir for a couple of minutes, taste and adjust seasonings. The mixture should be creamy. Add a little more stock if it is not. Spoon onto plates or wide soup bowls and serve.