Tuna with a green olives and saffron sauce
4 tuna pieces
1 tbsp fresh ginger
1tsp sweet curry
4 basil leaves
Olive oil
Olives and Saffron sauce :
100g pitted green olives
100ml olive oil
2 garlic cloves
1 lemon
1 bunch fresh basil
1 little bunch flat parsley
10 saffron threads
DIRECTIONS
Combine oil with gratted ginger and curry powder.
Marinate tuna in oil mixture for 30 minutes
Prepare olives and saffron sauce as follows :
Blanche garlic. Crush saffron threads in a morter. Squeeze lemon to get the juice. Infuse saffron in lemon juice. Reserve.
Put green olives, garlic, basil, parsley, saffron and lemon juice in the blender. Mix. Reserve.
Sauté tuna in a pan. It should be rare for being tender !
Serve tuna topped with green sauce.