Grilled tuna with mustard-dill sauce
3
Points®
Total time: 27 min • Prep: 15 min • Cook: 12 min • Serves: 4 • Difficulty: Easy
Tuna dressed with a creamy mustard sauce makes an elegant, yet quick dinner. Easy enough for a weeknight family dinner, yet special enough to serve to company, the grilled tuna is simply seasoned with salt, pepper and olive oil. We call for the lighter half-and-half instead of the heavier cream because the butter in the sauce helps increase the fat percentage. The dill in the sauce makes a beautiful marriage of flavors with the mustard and lemon zest, and makes a nice garnish for this dish. And the rich sauce provides the tuna with extra moisture. Serve this dish with haricots verts and roasted potatoes.
Ingredients
Uncooked bluefin tuna
1¼ pound(s), four 5 oz fillets cut about 1 1/4-inch thick
Olive oil cooking spray
4 spray(s)
Table salt
½ tsp, or to taste
Black pepper
¼ tsp, or to taste
Salted butter
1 Tbsp
Shallot
2 small, or 1 large, chopped
Fat free liquid creamer
1 cup(s), such as fat-free half-and-half
Mustard
4 tsp, grainy
Dill
1 Tbsp, fresh, chopped
Lemon zest
1 Tbsp
Instructions
1
Preheat grill to medium. Coat tuna with olive oil cooking spray; sprinkle with 1/4 teaspoon of salt and 1/8 teaspoon of pepper, or to taste. Grill 4 to 6 minutes per side, until desired degree of doneness.
2
Meanwhile, brown butter in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Add shallots and cook until they begin to brown, about 1 minute. Reduce heat to medium and add half-and-half; cook until slightly thickened and mixture coats the back of a spoon, about 5 minutes. Stir in mustard; remove from heat and stir in dill, zest, 1/4 teaspoon of salt and 1/8 teaspoon of pepper.
3
Serve sauce hot or at room temperature. Yields 1 tuna fillet and about 2 tablespoons of sauce per serving.
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