Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Wheat Soba Noodles with Tuna

"Pacific Salt Over Southeast Asia"
[Japanese/Thai]

Time to Cook: 15 minutes
Serves: 2 (3 with appetizer-sized portions)

Ingredients:
*Wheat Soba Noodles - 2 oz. (Explore Asian brand works best)
*Fresh Tuna - 6-7 oz.
*Green Pepper - 1 cut quarter
*White Onion - Half
*Minced Garlic - 1/3 tsp.
*Olive Oil - 2 tbsp.
*Large Brown Eggs - 2 (Organic eggs tend to have more to them and almost always bigger)
*Tuong Ot Sriracha Sauce (Optional)

Preparing:
Cut the onion and green pepper into small cubes and put aside. Cut the tuna with a sharp, straight knife (that is not serrated) into several fat slices. And have your eggs out and ready.
*Quick Note: This is easiest if you have a toaster oven that can broil.*

Cooking:
Bring 8 cups of water to boil, then add noodles and stir occasionally. While the noodles are cooking have a skillet warming up at medium heat, use cooking spray or a very sparse amount of canola oil to coat the surface then put in the slices of the tuna. If your brave and you trust where you get your fish from only let the top and bottom of the tuna slices cook then take them out.
While the skillet is still hot put in the onion, green pepper and minced garlic. While the vegetables are sauteing put your tuna slices into a toaster oven on a bed of aluminum foil and set it to broil.
Continually check your noodles, it usually only takes 6-8 minutes for them to cook all the way through.
Add the olive oil to skillet and mix the green peppers and onion around in it. Let it cook for 1 minute then add the eggs. Increase the heat to medium-high and immediately stir the eggs in with the vegetables. Turn the heat off for the tuna and let it sit in the toaster oven while everything else finishes. If you were brave before it should still have a little bit of pink remaining in the center.
When the noodles are done strain them, then add them in a lump on the skillet with the eggs and vegetables. Then take the tuna out and serve around the noodles and enjoy.

Preferred With What?:
Drink: White wine or hot Green or Black tea
Music: La Mamma Morta (Opera) song by Maria Callas, composed by Umberto Giordano





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