Grilled Tuna Salad
- 1 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for rubbing tuna
- 1 vanilla bean
- 1 1/2 pounds tuna loin
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 pound snow peas, cut into pieces
- 6 medium radishes, trimmed and sliced
- 1 cup grape tomatoes
- 7 leaves basil, torn
- 1/2 bunch parsley, cleaned and leaves roughly chopped
- 6 cups mesclun lettuce
- Place the oil in a small saucepan.
- Scrape the vanilla bean and add the scraped seeds, and the pod to the oil.
- Heat over low heat to infuse the oil with the vanilla, about 10 minutes.
- Remove from the heat and cool slightly.
- Season the tuna with salt and pepper.
- Rub with oil.
- Place on a hot grill pan and sear on all sides, about 8 minutes.
- The outside should be seared, but the inside should be rare.
- Remove tuna from the heat and slice into thin slices.
- Blanch the snow peas in salted, boiling water.
- Shock in an ice bath.
- In a large bowl combine snow peas, radishes, tomatoes, chopped parsley and basil and mesclun lettuce.
- Toss with some of the vanilla oil.
- Serve on a platter with the tuna slices around.
- Garnish with fresh herbs and drizzle with a little extra vanilla oil.
extravirgin olive oil, vanilla bean, tuna loin, salt, snow peas, radishes, grape tomatoes, basil, parsley, mesclun lettuce
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/grilled-tuna-salad-recipe.html (may not work)