Taste the Rainbow: Sesame crusted tuna with orange and purple cauliflower

I am horrible when it comes to holidays, birthdays or even planning for that matter. (Occasionally, I'll get it right, but rarely). Hmm….Valentine's day is coming up, what should I do? I don't know we never do anything. I went to the store to get groceries to do a dinner and ended up wandering. As a wandering soul I placed items in my basket and ended up placing them back on the shelf…like a crazy person (good thing no one saw me…I think…lol). While I was placing items back on the shelf I found purple, orange, green, and white cauliflower! I was so excited! If your anything like me, I get excited over natural colorful veggies :) They were 2 for $5 at my local Nob Hill Market. 2 for $5? Can I buy one of each color? Who's going to each all of them? In the end I got the purple and orange. 

Aren't they exquisite? I needed a protein with the dish. I ended up diving through my freezer and found some tuna. Protein, veggie…okay, good to go.

There are no measurement, just go with how much you want and portion it~~~I eye balled everything since it was a spur of the moment thing.

Ingredients I used: 

Cauliflower~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2-3 cups chopped

Garlic~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~2-4 cloves minced

Tuna~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~8oz x 2 steaks

Sesame seeds (Black and white)~~~~~~Enough to coat the tuna

Grape seed oil~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~coat pan

Sesame seed oil~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~rub tuna 

Salt and pepper~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~to taste

Mixed berries (Optional)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1/2 cup diced

Cucumber (Optional)~~~~~~~~~~~half a cucumber thinly sliced

Oil the pan, wait till it is hot hot, add half of the minced garlic to the pan along with the cauliflower. Turn the heat down to high medium.

This gives you time to work on the tuna. Depending on how you want your veggies crispy or soft, adjust accordingly.

Rub the tuna steak with sesame oil, and the rest of the minced garlic (make sure it super micro minced, you don't want chunks), and coat with black and white sesame oil. If you have trouble making the sesame stick add a little it of corn starch.

Coat the pan with grape seed oil and wait for it to get hot. When ready pan sear both side for 2-3 minutes. Becareful NOT to burnt he coating! Keep an eye out for it and flip frequently if needed.

Its a juggling act…I had both pans going and on the side I was beginning my plating. I took slices of cucumber and the cauliflower leaves.

Place cauliflower on the plate. Then slice the tuna and place on the plate. I looked at it and saw green, purple and orange…the color just didn't work for me. So I looked in the fridge and found some diced berries and placed it on the plate to add a pop of red.  Regardless of my ill planning, this came out pretty well and I enjoyed making it a lot.

That's it, happy cooking!