Sous Vide Tuna with Zucchini and Carrot Thai Salad

Anova Culinary

Tuna steaks are fantastic just seared, but here's a different way to try them. We've cooked it sous vide first to firm up the texture and then quickly seared it at the end for flavor. The salad is a take on a Thai salad, but in this case we've combined more typically Western ingredients like zucchini and carrot with a traditional Thai dressing.

Author

Christina Wylie

Christina Wylie is an award-winning writer, author, editor, food stylist, recipe creator, entrepreneur and radio host whose work has been featured in The Times & The Sunday Times, Time Out (Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong and Dubai), Traveler’s Digest, Fah Thai Magazine, Broadsheet, Wining & Dining and many other internationally renowned publications. In 2013, after almost a decade of working as an international journalist, Christina founded the online lifestyle magazine The GAB Magazine, for which she now leads a team of 60 writers based all across Australia. She then founded Samui Life Magazine in 2016. After working as a recipe creator for Anova Culinary for over a year, she signed a cookbook contract with the American-based, international publishing company Quarto. Her cookbook, titled The Sous Vide Kitchen: Techniques, Ideas, and More Than 100 Recipes to Cook at Home, was published worldwide in 2017. She wrote, styled, and photographed everything that you see within that book. In 2017 she opened her first restaurant, Bootlegger, in Koh Samui, Thailand. She is currently in the initial stages of launching Bootlegger 2 in Phuket in 2018, and is looking to open Bootlegger 3 in Bangkok in 2019. She is currently working towards stepping into the world of food and travel presenting. As an entrepreneur herself, Christina co-founded the charity initiative Project Gen Z in 2015 to teach orphaned Cambodian children entrepreneurial skills. A British expat born and raised in Hong Kong, Christina has worked across the globe, and has lived in Thailand, London, Hong Kong, Australia and South Africa over the years.

Prep Time: 00:20

Recipe Time: 00:15

Temperature : 104F / 40C

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Preheat Anova Sous Vide to 40 C (104 F). Seal tuna in a bag, put in water bath and set timer to 15 minutes.
  2. Mix together all dressing ingredients, then combine in a large bowl and toss with all of the salad ingredients.
  3. When tuna steaks are done, take them out of the bags, pat dry, season with salt and pepper and finish on a hot grill (ideally over an open flame for a smoky flavour, or alternatively sear in a skillet on a high heat, with the cooking oil), for 20 seconds each side, then set on a chopping board and thinly slice.

Finishing Step