Economical fish be damned, I made this recently much to jwa’s (and my) delight. Oh. So good. Who knew Dick Clark made killer pizza at home and then gave the recipe to Bon Appétit?
I did however, use a different pizza dough recipe — the one from my Farmer’s Market Pizza Experiment of last Spring. I also changed the wasabi sauce recipe a bit and added the shitakes, carrot, avocado and sesame seeds. But still, I’ll give him the credit.
(Kind of) Dick Clark’s Seared Tuna Pizza
Your favorite Pizza Dough recipe — here is mine (you can also use prepared dough, of course. There is also one listed with this recipe at epicurious.com)
1/4 cup shredded carrots
10-12 shitake mushrooms, cleaned, destemmed, sliced quickly sauteed in a little oil until soft
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup olive oil
1 tbsp honey
2 tbsp purchased prepared wasabi
2 tbsp minced peeled fresh ginger
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tbsp sesame seeds
1 lb ahi tuna
olive oil
Garnishes:
Chopped green onions
1 avocado, peeled and diced, tossed with the juice of 1 lime and some chopped cilantro
Combine soy sauce, oil, honey and wasabi in medium bowl; whisk until blended. Whisk in ginger and garlic. Season sauce to taste with pepper.
Preheat your oven to the desired temperature for your dough. Mine was about 490 degrees. Prepare one large pizza or individual pizzas. Brush your pizza dough generously with the wasabi sauce and sprinkle with the carrots, sauteed shitakes and sesame seeds. Bake until crust is completely done and top is a bit golden — for me this was about 9-10 minutes.
Meanwhile, heat a pan until almost smoking. Brush a little of the wasabi sauce on the tuna along with just a little salt and sear on the first side for about 2 minutes. Brush sauce on the facing-up side and flip over, for about 1-2 minutes more.
Transfer tuna to a work surface. Slice thinly or moderately thinly. Hmmm, really, thinly is pretty subjective. Anyway, arrange 1/2 of the tuna slices on each pizza crust (if you are making individual pizzas). If you are making one big pizza? Well, I trust you can figure that one out.
Drizzle each pizza with some wasabi sauce and sprinkle with chopped green onions and the avocado-lime-cilantro mixture. Serve with the remaining wasabi sauce for further drizzling at your leisure.
Completely unrelated — oh, oh, oh do I love Pushing Daisies. And now I totally want to make an apple pie with grated gruyere on top — perhaps even with the mood-enhancing drugs inside. I guess it would depend on how I felt.
Next week: WCC round-up, Halloween green tea sugar cookies, some tasty-quick chicken and probably a shoe update.