Just want to welcome you back to Mr. Cast Iron. Today we're going to make grilled ahi tuna steaks
and I'm going to make them two different ways. I'm going to cook one or two in a cast iron grill pan
and then I'm going to cook one over here on my cast iron griddle and I've got them hot. You see
they're smoking hot. Now here's what the tuna steaks look like. We've taken them out. They were
frozen and we're taking them out and thawed them out but what we need to do now is go ahead and
pat these things dry so we can add our seasoning to it
Just like that right there. And what we're gonna add to these is just a little bit
of olive oil and some Uncle Steve's Gator Shake. This is kind of a citrusy type seasoning
and boy, it's really great for seafood and fish. So we're going to get that on there
All we need to really do is take our olive oil. We're going to just drizzle a little bit on our tuna steaks
Like that right there. And we just want to kind of wipe that in a little
Now I don grease my griddle and I don grease my grill pan I just basically add the oil to my tuna steak add my seasoning to it and you can this is kind of optional you can actually do this in reverse order you can
actually go ahead and grill your tuna steak, and then once it's done you can add
your oil and your seasoning. We'll listen to that sizzle. Now I'm going to do both of these
in this grill pan and we really only want to do this for a couple minutes on each side
Now fish is supposed to be brought to a temperature of 145 degrees internal. A lot of people just
like to sear their tuna and you'll see as it starts to sear, as it starts to cook, you'll
see it begin to turn white from the bottom up and so it's getting a good sear on it
Okay, as you can see in the grill pan how this is turned white on the bottom
We should have a pretty good little sear on the bottom. Oh, look at those grill marks
We flip those over and we'll let those cook for another 2 or 3 minutes
A lot of people like a medium or medium rare. but like I said you really supposed to cook fish until 145 degrees internal now you can see the difference on using a griddle versus a grill pan
The grill pan will give you the grill marks that you want
but you can use it on a griddle or whatever. But you need some good ventilation because it will smoke
It's browning it up that seasoning. Okay, as you can see how the tuna steaks are beginning to get white all the way around the side
I'm just going to probe this and see what it is internally. It's running about 97, 98 degrees, so we've still got a little ways to go yet
Give them just another minute or so, and then we'll go ahead and pull these off. All right, we're going to go ahead and pull this
I'm going to sear that one side a little bit. and what we want to do now once we get these off we want to let these rest for just a few minutes
now what I like to do with my fish because once you pull your fish it will begin to start with
wanting to try to turn dry. So just add you a little bit of oil, it won't hurt a
little bit of olive oil is good for everybody. And then I like to sprinkle a
little bit more of my seasoning on there and let that soak in So we let that rest a minute and then I come back and show you what it looks like on the inside Okay well we let this rest for a few minutes
and like I said I added a little bit of olive oil to let it soak into the fish
the tuna steak and to help keep it moist or whatever. But anyway you can see
and I just I just want to break this open by hand. I don't want to cut this or anything. I just want
Look at that medium. That's a medium tuna steak right there. And Patricia likes this one because it looks like a heart
Valentine's Day is coming up, so we've got a heart-shaped tuna steak here, too
So, anyway, folks, this is really good. I mean, it's good and flaky
It's good and moist. Well done. Cooked through and through. It's not raw
And so we're going to give this a bite and try it out and see what it tastes like here
yeah you know what would be good with this right now a little bit of lemon just take
squeeze you a little bit of lemon on these folks and you can't beat that right there
so now we got a little bit of lemon on this we're going to go ahead and get us a bite of this
and we certainly appreciate you guys hey y'all check this video out here because it was made
for you and we'll see you later it's mike and mrs cash iron over here we'll see you bye bye