Tuna kebabs with caper sauce

Tuna is a fish that is ideal for making kebabs because of its firm flesh.  On skewers with onion and peppers and with caper sauce gives it has an authentic Greek flavour – this being re-enforced by accompanying it with pitta bread stuffed with a crispy salad

Preparation Time: 20 Mins

Cooking Time: 7 Mins

Total Time: 30 Mins

Ingredients

For 4 servings…

1 squeeze         Lemon juice            

2                    Onions  - red - quartered        

                      Pepper      

2                    Peppers  - red or green - cut into chunks 

                      Salt          

4 steaks           Tuna  - cut into chunks          

For basting

                      Olive oil    

For the caper sauce

75 gms            Capers  - chopped    

1                    Lemon  - juice of      

1 tsp               Mustard  - Dijon      

100 ml             Olive oil    

1 tbs               Parsley  - chopped    

                      Pepper  - freshly ground, black 

                      Salt          

To serve

4                    Pitta breads  - warmed

                      Salad  - crispy         

Method

To make the caper sauce…

Mix all the ingredients together.

To prepare and cook the kebabs…

Place the tuna in a shallow dish with enough olive oil to lightly coat. Season with a little salt and pepper.

Starting with onion, make up the kebabs, alternating with the pepper and tuna on skewers.

Cook the kebabs for 7 minutes over hot coals or under a preheated grill, basting with any remaining oil and a squeeze of lemon, turning once halfway through cooking.

Drizzle the caper sauce over the tuna and serve alongside the warmed split pitta bread, stuffed with chopped salad.

Wine recommendations

Conventional

     Picpoul de Pinet

Interesting

     Entre-deux-Mers

     Graves blanc

     Pinot Gris

     Vin de pays Charentais blanc