Tuna Tartare Recipe

Learn how to make tuna tartar. Plus, get tips on where to find sashimi-grade fish and how to test if it's fresh.

Female: So looking for more great recipes? You’re in luck. Male: Raw fish is a great thing to kind of serve light easy on the go, healthy. We take this tuna which is chopped, you don’t feel like chopping at all though, you can go to the fish market and say hey, give me 4 ounces of sashimi tuna and you can go ahead and chop it up for me and they will chop it. So a good way to make sure that your tuna’s fresh, go to a reputable fishmonger, any nice supermarket or associate or fish shop. What you want to do is you want to first look into it to make sure it’s got a nice red color to it. Number two you want to make sure that it’s got a sheen to it but not a sliminess. Finally a smell or better yet lack thereof. If you’re getting a smell, you see it smells like ocean but it doesn’t smell like fish. And fish starts to give off sort of a fishy smell when it’s not at its freshest. It starts with simple ingredients. Tuna, parsley leaves. I perfectly like just pick whole leaves of parsley so it kind of gives you an intense flavor. These are sundried tomatoes. These little bad boys are capers. And finally raw onion so we’ve got all these ingredients, let me show you how easy it is to mix it all together. First we take the tuna. We’re going to take a couple pinches of the parsley leaves and you want to just pull the leaf off of the stem. We’re going to take a good tablespoon of the chopped sundried tomatoes. Female: Could you also use the sundried tomatoes that are packed in oil? Male: You most definitely can. They actually give you a little bit of a juicier feel to it. You’ve just got to make sure you chop enough. I’m going to take another tablespoon of the capers and then kind of depending on how much raw onion you like, is what I would do the raw onions. I like that a good – and you’re going to want to add a pretty good pinch of salt and then finally, about a tablespoon of olive oil and then we mix. What I like to do is take something like, these are rice crackers. So let’s taste, what do you say? Female: Good, you have done your job well sir. Male: That is why you brought me here and it was an absolute pleasure.