Recipe: Grilled Tuna

Food weight: 3.5


Yield: 2 servings (serving size: 1 tuna steak)

Ingredients:

• 2 tuna steaks (6 ounces each)
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon freshly ground pepper
• ¼ cup apricot jam
• 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
• Fresh lemon wedges, for garnish

 

DirectionsPreheat grill (medium-high heat) or broiler. Season tuna steaks with salt and pepper. Combine jam and mustard in a small bowl. Baste fish with half the jam mixture. Place tuna on grill. Cook for 5 minutes, flip, and spread with remaining jam mixture. Grill on the other side until center is slightly pink, about 5 more minutes. Garnish with fresh lemon slices.

 

Nutritional Information Per Serving (1 tuna steak):
Food Weight: 3.5, Calories: 343, Fat: 8 g, Cholesterol: 64 mg, Sodium: 760 mg,
Carbohydrate: 26 g, Dietary Fiber: 0 g, Sugars: 25 g, Protein: 40 g

 

Recipe Source: An excerpt from the book Cholesterol Down by Janet Bond Brill, Ph.D., R.D., LDN; Published by Three Rivers Press; December 2006;$13.95US/$17.95CAN; 978-0-307-33911-9 Copyright © 2006 Janet Brill, Ph.D. To learn more about this book please visit CholesterolDownBook.com.