Tuna "Cru"

A seafood delight.

Ingredients

12 ounces	#1 grade sushi yellow fin tuna, cleaned
4	caperberries, sliced into circles
4	nicoise olives, meat sliced off the sides so you're left with 4 pieces per olive
4	picholine olives, sliced like the nicoise olives
1	shallot peeled and very finely minced
2 tablespoons	fresh, chopped chives
1/2 cup	freshly squeezed and strained lemon juice
	Extra-virgin olive oil olive oil Options Extravagonzo Infused Olive Oil Price: $19.99
1 medium	bulb fennel, fronds cut off and bulb washed
1/2	seedless, English cucumber
	Kosher salt salt Options RSVP Marble Dual Bin Salt Keeper Price: $24.95 Berard Olive Wood Salt Keeper Price: $49.95 Olde Thompson Acrylic Salt & Pepper Millls & Shaker Set, Himalayan Pink Salt Price: $34.95 Alaea Hawaiian Sea Salt Price: $9.95 View More
	Sea salt salt Options RSVP Marble Dual Bin Salt Keeper Price: $24.95 Berard Olive Wood Salt Keeper Price: $49.95 Olde Thompson Acrylic Salt & Pepper Millls & Shaker Set, Himalayan Pink Salt Price: $34.95 Alaea Hawaiian Sea Salt Price: $9.95 View More
	Fresh ground black pepper Peppercorns Options Stainless Steel Electric Salt & Pepper Mills with LED Light Price: $49.95 Stainless-Steel Electric Salt and Pepper Mill Price: $39.95 PepperMate Mills Price: $39.95 Electric Salt/Pepper Mill Price: $49.95

Cooking Instructions

For fennel and cucumber salad: Thinly slice fennel starting on the opposite end of the core. Cut cucumber in half lengthwise and with a spoon, gently scrape out the seeds. Cut cucumber into thin, crescent moon slices. In a non-reactive mixing bowl, combine the fennel and cucumber with about 1/4 cup olive oil and black pepper. Set aside.

Portion the tuna into 3 - 4 inch bars: cut even slabs of the tuna across horizontally starting from where the head would be towards where the tail would be. Rotate the slab 90 degrees and cut the slabs into bars.

Assemble the tuna: lay 4 sticks of tuna parallel to one another on a plate. Place one slice each of the caperberries and both types of olives on each bar of tuna in a consistent pattern. Drizzle about 1 - 1 1/2 tablespoons of olive oil over the tuna. Season with pepper. Sprinkle about 2 teaspoons each of the minced shallots and chives over the tuna.

Add about 3 tablespoons of lemon juice to the fennel and cucumber salad. Season with kosher salt. Place a small mound on the plate with the tuna bars.

Drizzle about 3/4 tablespoon of lemon juice over the tuna and season with sea salt right before serving.