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Tuna Burger

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  • Serves: 6
Martha Stewart

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Average (86 Ratings): 3 out of 5 stars

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Ingredients

  1. 2 pounds fresh center-cut tuna
  2. 1 large clove garlic, minced
  3. 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
  4. 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil, plus more for buns
  5. 1 anchovy fillet, minced
  6. 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh basil
  7. 2 celery stalks, peeled to remove strings and minced
  8. 1 1/2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger
  9. 1 teaspoon salt
  10. 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  11. 1 cup mizuna
  12. 6 buns
  13. 6 tablespoons pickled ginger
  14. Wasabi mayonnaise

Nutrition Info

Per Serving

  • Calories: 409 kcal
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  • Carbohydrates: 29 g
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  • Dietary Fiber: 4 g
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  • Fat: 13 g
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  • Protein: 40 g
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  • Sugars: 2 g

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Cooking Directions

  1. Cut tuna into 1/4-inch chunks with a very sharp knife, trimming away any dark, bloody parts. Coarsely chop tuna by hand until it begins to hold together. Transfer to a bowl over a bowl of ice. Add garlic, olive oil, sesame oil, anchovy, basil, celery, ginger, salt, and pepper; combine well.
  2. Heat grill to medium high. Form tuna into 6 patties, and place on hot grill, or chill for up to 6 hours until ready to cook. Grill from about 3 or 4 minutes per side for rare to 7 or 8 for well done. Alternatively, cook in a nonstick skillet or grill pan over medium-high heat for about 2 to 3 minutes per side for rare to 5 or 6 for well done.
  3. Serve with mizuna on buns brushed with sesame oil and toasted, if desired. Serve with pickled ginger and wasabi mayonnaise.

Yield: 6 servings

3. Still Hungry?

The tuna burger was born in restaurant kitchens as a way of using up scraps left over from fancy cuts, but we think it's worth buying tuna just to make these. Mizuna, a green available in specialty-food stores, can be substituted with watercress.

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  • Don't work so hard!

    Mongo - May 28, 2007 07:02:09 PM PST
    You can create a great tasting sandwich by simply searing both sides of a small tuna steak and eating it like a burger. No choping or mushing meat together...very easy and very tasty. Try regular trimmings (lettuce, tomato, and onions) topped with a light mayo with dill seasoning. Quick and easy!

    10 of 12 found this review helpful.

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  • Great taste, but prepare to work

    waxmango - May 28, 2007 01:23:42 PM PST
    I really dont undertand the first two reviews. Did you guys even try the recipes? why would you rate it if you didnt even try it? At least number four tried it. If you guys are looking for "Quick Meals," there is a tab for it on the front page. This recipe was not in there.

    About the Burger, it did taste pretty good. It was fairly exotic. It had a good herby taste, and the ginger/wasabi really opens up the nose. I think that some of the ingredients got lost in the mix, especially the sesame seeds, which were a lot of work to use. Maybe you can just cook the tuna in sesame oil or something. Also, the mizuna was really hard to find, and I dont know how to use it in anything else, so i\'ll probably end up throwing the rest away.

    Finally, if you like reinventing tuna and dont mind getting all the ingredients and doing all the work involved, then this will be great for you. As for me, unless I can get someone else to prepare the burger for me (im kind of lazy) I probably wont be making this again.

    9 of 12 found this review helpful.

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  • This looked great, but.....

    cbrat1554 - May 28, 2007 09:15:05 AM PST
    As a mother with growing teens who are always hungry, I\'m looking for foods that are A: fast, B: easy to cook and most importantly C: cheap, since feeding three teens can run up a grocery bill......so when I saw the idea for tuna burgers, I was thrilled, thinking it was using canned tuna....boy was I wrong!

    Fresh tuna is too cost prohibative for us, not to mention I would never have another occasion to use half the other odd ingredients listed so they\'d end up being wastes of money as well.....

    I should have seen the fact that this is a Martha Stewart recipe, that would have tipped me off to the fact that it wouldn\'t be suitable for the average American family!

    Try again, please, this time with a recipe designed for the average working-class family?

    14 of 26 found this review helpful.

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  • Expensive but Worth it!

    Trish - May 28, 2007 09:16:54 PM PST
    Great recipe! I also like the less labor intensive version offered by one of the reviewers as well! Thank you!

    Frankly, I was stunned by the people who wanted a recipe for tinned Tuna. Why bother looking for a recipe? Just open the can and slap the contents between two pieces of mayo covered bread with a lettuce leaf! Quick! Easy peasy! Its a no brainer!

    I come to this site to get real recipes! I cannot afford this burger every day of the week, but maybe once a month!

    4 of 6 found this review helpful.

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  • tuna burger. right.

    Coventry K - May 28, 2007 08:43:08 AM PST
    I clicked on the recipe hoping to get a quick-and-easy way to use canned tuna. After all, that\'s tuna\'s appeal, right? Tuna burger sounds nice and healthy and easy.

    Imagine my surprise to discover a recipe that calls for exotica like wasabi, anchovy fillets, and whatever-the-hell that green was, not to mention pricey tuna fillets.

    Do us a favor, Martha. Give your upscale dishes upscale names, okay, so we don\'t confuse them with real world food. Maybe Tuna Exotica on Fresh Bread Avec Fancy Greens You Can Neither Find Nor Afford. Yeah. That\'ll do it.

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