Pan-Seared Sesame-Crusted Tuna Steaks
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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2003, America's Test Kitchen TV
How do you get a crisp, perfectly seared crust and a rare center? We cooked 50 pounds of tuna to find out.
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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS
We went the minimalist route for our pan-seared tuna steak recipe, coating our tuna in oil, then with pepper or sesame seeds, and then simply cooking it for five minutes or less over high heat and turning it once, until it was rare to mediu...
