Thai

Asia Unplated

From

Asia Unplated

season

2

episode

9

Seared Tuna with Nahm Jim

With

Diana Chan

Seared Tuna with Nahm Jim

Ingredients

  • 500g Yellow Fin Tuna, sashimi grade, cut into discs, sear only on one side

  • 1 green papaya, julienned

  • 10 kaffir lime leaves, chiffonade

  • 1/4 bunch Thai basil leaves with buds

  • 1 bunch coriander leaves

  • Young coconut flesh, scooped out and roughly sliced

  • Coconut vinegar

  • Lemon flavoured Cobram Estate extra virgin olive oil

  • 50g crispy shallots

  • For the sweet nahm jim dressing: 5 long red banana chilli

  • For the sweet nahm jim dressing: 5 cloves of garlic

  • For the sweet nahm jim dressing: 1 knob peeled ginger

  • For the sweet nahm jim dressing: 5 peeled shallots

  • For the sweet nahm jim dressing: 125g melted palm sugar

  • For the sweet nahm jim dressing: 8 kaffir lime leaves, chopped

  • For the sweet nahm jim dressing: 1 bunch coriander, finely chopped

  • For the sweet nahm jim dressing: 80ml fish sauce

  • For the sweet nahm jim dressing: 1/2 cup lemon juice

  • For the sweet nahm jim dressing: 1 cup lime juice

Method

  1. For the sweet nahm jim dressing: put the chilli, garlic, ginger and peeled shallots into a food processor. Add the sugar and everything else and blitz. Finish with the extra virgin olive oil. The taste should balance on sweetness, a bit of sourness and fragrance.

  2. Mix papaya, coriander, lime leaves and Thai basil. Dress with nahm jim.

  3. Place dressed salad on plate.

  4. Mix young coconut flesh, olive oil and coconut vinegar in a bowl. Season with salt.

  5. Place tuna on papaya salad. Drizzle with coconut dressing and crispy shallots.

Diana Chan

Diana Chan won MasterChef Australia in 2017 with a precision-led repertoire built on Malaysian-Chinese home cooking. She hosts Asia Unplated, a tour through regional kitchens that treats the home cooks as the experts. Her recipes lean technical without losing the household feel they came from.

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