Frozen tuna

[cronewitch]

I got almost 200lbs of tuna last summer and froze it but haven't found decent recipes. I froze mostly single loins but some are in huge packages. So far my favorite is coconut tuna but we won't eat much and I need to use the big packages.

Coconut tuna:
Some raw tuna
Some eggs
Some coconut, not sweetened
Some cornstarch
Some spices
Some honey
Some jam

First mix cornstarch with spices in a cereal bowl. I like salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, seasoned salt but you could use others.

Next beat some eggs in a cereal bowl with a fork

Fill part of a third cereal bowl with coconut.

Prepare baking sheet by covering in foil then spray with non stick. Turn on the oven to 350.

Cut the tuna into chunks the size of a jumbo prawn so about 10 per pound.

Dip each chunk into corn starch then egg then coconut and place on baking sheet until you run out of tuna.

Place in the oven for a while then turn over maybe 15 minutes per side until it is golden.

Mix a bowl of honey with a couple of ounces of jam, peach, plum, apricot or orange marmalade work well.

Serve the tuna with a sweet dipping sauce.

I made tuna roast but then we don't want to eat them they are boring and then get dry. I am thinking something with a moist sauce like honey mustard. I tried soy sauce, don't remember probably tried terriaki sauce. I canned a bunch then made tuna noodle casorole but I ran out of jars so want to just cook the tuna to eat. Most tuna recipes call for canned tuna and I do have lots of pints and half pints and little cans I bought before we caught our fish. After this no more tuna fishing they are a lot of trouble even to freese we had 24 of them with about 8 pounds of loin each. Next time bottom fish I like bottom fish like halibut and sable fish better.

[thyme4change]

I made tuna burgers from a Paula Deen recipe off foodnetwork.com. It called for a can of tuna, but I wonder if you steamed a piece of tuna until it was cooked through if you would get a similiar product to a can - but most likely better.

The buger had an avacado mayo sauce that was awesome!

If that works, you might want to steam up some extra and just make tuna sandwiches for lunch. You can also stuff tuna salad into a tomato or spread it on lettuce.

[Elizabeth]

I use a website that maybe I even read about on these message boards, but you just put in the food items you have in your house and it comes up with some recipes. So far I have found 3 yummy ways to use a huge pork roast that DH bought on sale. I'm not much of a pork eater, either.

www.supercook.com/

[Deleted]

that's a lot of tuna.

[2kids10horses]

Thaw it, and feed it to the cats.

[cronewitch]

I didn't think of steaming it for making cooked tuna like canned that might work. I thought of boiling it but that seemed wrong too wet but I have plenty of pans with steam racks like to steam clams. Then I can use all the canned tuna recipes my tuna is albacore so called white tuna. It is the only one they can call white but the young ones people catch are more pink they get white when they are old.

[dcmetrocrab]

Wow, wish I had your problem! In my household, we eat fresh tuna steaks as sashimi.

If you're not queasy about raw-ish tuna, seared sesame tuna recipes are quite common for fresh tuna steaks. This gives you an idea if you've never had it before.

allrecipes.com//Recipe/sesame-seared-tuna/Detail.aspx

Tuna is also good grilled, but make sure to marinate it first, citrus-y ones are good. (lemon, lime margarita, etc) The trick is to not overcook the fish since it will be very dry when well done. If you want to use it for canned tuna recipes, I'd go ahead and boil it or cook it well done in a frying pan, then chunk it up after it's cooled. Boiling it will not ruin it in any way. It will hold it's shape in the water. If you want to flash boil it, slice the loin into thinner pieces (1 inch slices), then douse it in boiling water, then set aside to cool. It cooks very quickly this way versus as a whole loin. Chunk up and use as you would canned.

[TrixAre4Kids]

Yummm Ahi burgers as the Blue Plate Special at the Hard Rock in Lahaina, Yummmmmmmmmmm

[Cookies Galore]

Mmm... tuna.
I like yellowfin tuna marinated with sesame oil, soy sauce, ginger, and lime juice. Very simple and delicious. Lately I've been making spicy tuna. I marinate it with olive oil, a little soy sauce, salt, pepper, ginger, and sriracha.
With your albacore, fresh tuna salad and tuna burgers would be delicious! Make some wasabi spread and it will be awesome!

[busymom]

Since you still have a lot of tuna, maybe check with your friends and neighbors and see what you could barter for. If you lived near me, I'd gladly trade some garden vegetables, or homemade baked goods for tuna (my kids like tuna too!)

[cronewitch]

I did give away some fish the day we were cleaning them. My cousin loves tuna and always bought tuna to can so I she wanted me to invite her for a tuna BBQ. I told her invite me to one and I will bring the tuna. I gave her about 4 pounds to practice BBQing. Her lover had cancer and lots of chemo and surgery so hasn't had time to BBQ. Now they broke up and the lover moved out time to hint for BBQ invite, give her more tuna.

One neighbor is a younger couple who has a big garden. They don't speak English but appear to be from SE Asia. My boyfriend showed them a tuna then handed them some loins. Soon the man came over and indicated he wanted the heads, we had 12 that we didn't have cleaned on the boat so gave him all the fish heads he wanted, maybe he makes soup. Sometimes they give us vegetables so I guess I could send DBF over with some frozen tuna they might know what it was. He took them a salmon once and a girl answered the door that knew the word salmon. We could write the word tuna on the package and they could get a translator to tell them what it was. DBF has given salmon to several neighbors and other people like the security guard where I work because he let us catch crayfish from the company pier and opened a lock so we could set the traps. We used salmon heads as bait so catch salmon days and crayfish nights. The company let me moor my boat at work for the sockeye season.

[thyme4change]

We could write the word tuna on the package and they could get a translator to tell them what it was

They can translate it on the internet.

And, handing them marked frozen tuna would probably go over better then when my husband went to our non-English speaking neighbors and accidentally told them he was going to murder their children. That was nice.

[haapai]

My father had this problem once. Then he learned to take wasabi and soy sauce with him on the boat and start giving away excess tuna the moment that he hit land.

You may have a serious disposal problem on your hands.

I never asked him what he did with the frozen skippie. (If the dog knew, he wasn't talking.)

Dumping several pounds of this stuff on your piscivorous cousin is definitely a possibility. (I wouldn't recommend calling or angling for a BBQ invite first. Showing up with 10 pounds of frozen tuna and running is more the strategy that I had in mind.) At this point in time, it may take tremendous ingenuity and stamina to get your catch into a human gullet. You may have turned sashimi-grade tuna into cat food.

Which is better than fly-bait or skunk attractant, both of which can happen if you are unserious about getting rid of the stuff. Big frozen chunks of tuna are very difficult to hack through and even harder to chew through. The ground doesn't digest them particularly well either.

[debtheaven]

A few years ago, as a birthday gift for her DH, our close friend paid a chef to teach him and two friends how to cook.

Then we wives joined them to eat the dinner.

This was hysterical because both her DH and my DH both cook much better than she or I do. However, she and I both use much fewer dishes and we clean up as we go. The husbands, not so much.

The chef had them do seared tuna marinated in mustard and soy sauce, and covered with a mixture of allspice and sesame seeds. DH has done that recipe both on the BBQ and in the oven, and even in the frying pan once when we planned a BBQ and it rained. We tend to discover a new recipe, milk it to death and then abandon it, but it was great while it lasted.

[debtheaven]

And, handing them marked frozen tuna would probably go over better then when my husband went to our non-English speaking neighbors and accidentally told them he was going to murder their children. That was nice.

Thyme, I don't want to hear more about that story, I NEED to hear more about it!