Sesame Seed Grilled Tuna Steaks

Isn't that pretty

Hey, y'all. Mama loves to do this piece that she calls the lighter side

and I'm doing it by myself today, so it's the lighter side of me. And there's a lot less of me to love these days

because I've learned that good food can taste good, and I eat more like my 7-year-old

and I've lost about 40 pounds in the last two years. You don't have to give up good food

if you're trying to watch what you eat. You start with fresh, good products

and you can make a little sauce that's simple, and it's delicious. Today, I'm doing grilled tuna steaks

This is a Bobby Dean special. He loves fresh tuna, and now I love fresh tuna, too

For 40 years, I only ate it out of a can until I discovered this

It's awesome. Another one of my favorite flavors is Asian food. So this has got a little Asian flair

and I'm gonna crust it in sesames before we put it on the grill The marinade is essential here You could do salt and pepper I think Bobby does his kind of plain but I love the Asian flavor So we going to get it in a pan and let it sit in the fridge for about an hour

And it's really easy. We're going to use two tablespoons of soy sauce

It's two of sesame oil. I love sesame oil. It's two of regular oil

You see where I'm going here? Two, two, and two. but I'm using bourbon

I like bourbon more than I like sesame oil, so this one has three tablespoons

Two soy, two sesame oil, regular oil, and three of bourbon. I'm just going to give this a little whisk

and we're going to put our tuna steaks right in here. Add a little bit of salt and a little bit of pepper

Wrap this real tight with saran wrap and put it in the refrigerator for an hour. I've got my sesame seeds right here next to it

The grill's nice and hot. I gonna put some oil down because I don want my steaks to stick Now after this has been in there for about an hour it sucks up all of this good flavor And my grill is so hot

Look, I'm going to crust it with the sesame and put it down. Now tuna doesn't take very long at all

And you may not like your meat rare, you might not like your steaks rare

but I promise you don't want your tuna overcooked. So this is going to go about two and a half minutes on each side

You want it nice and pink on the inside. I kind of like my steaks about medium now, too

I used to like it cooked all the way through, but you don't want to cook out all the juices and all the flavor

So you'll have to trust me on this. Two and a half minutes on each side

I'm going to turn it down a little bit. You don't want to burn it. And you don't want it cold raw in the center

although some people really do like it cold raw in the center. But for today, we're going to go with nice, medium

all the way through. I'm going to serve it on an arugula salad

There's very few things that are easy as a simple dressing, and I like to put mine in little jam jars

And y'all, all this is is a little bit of sesame, a little bit of olive oil

I got a lime juice in here and honey Here give it a shake let taste it Mm that good and because of the sesame oil in here it go real good with our tuna steaks Let flip these over and see what we look like

Isn't that pretty? I'm going to dress my salad while I'm waiting on that to finish

Arugula is a great salad if you hadn't eaten a lot of arugula. It's got a real peppery flavor, and it beats plain old iceberg

My wife loves spinach, but I've turned her on to arugula, too, and it's got some fresh radishes

red and green bell peppers, and some purple onion. This is what I like to pair with my tuna

is a really nice, light, fresh salad. I think we're good to go, y'all

I'm gonna turn this off. I'm gonna put my tuna right here on top

Doesn't that look delicious? Perfect. That is so good. See the inside

A little pink in the center, but nice and warm. This will definitely be your catch of the day

Thank you