Tuna burgers

I’m posting this dinner, but the credit really goes to my husband.  He went to Costco after work to pick up some stuff, and then called me from there to figure out dinner.  We decided to stay in.  I didn’t want anything heavy (i.e. no steaks) since I’m getting up early for a clinic for the half-marathon, and will most likely run w/people from the clinic.  I think he’s been dying to make some kind of fish-burger/cake (we have salmon in the freezer for salmon-cakes), so I said we could try tuna burgers.  It also was really nice outside, so I figured he wouldn’t mind grilling something.  We, uh, he, totally made this up as he went along, and it was GOOD!!!

Ingredients:

tuna steaks – we had 2 huge pieces, ~1.8 lbs

1/4-1/3 c. bell pepper finely diced – we had yellow, red, orange

1/4 c. finely diced red onion

panko bread crumbs

mayonnaise

ginger – we used powdered, but if we had fresh, I would’ve used that

Yoshida’s marinade

pineapple

I don’t have exact measures here.  For the tuna burgers:

Finely dice the peppers and onions.  Grind up tuna in the meat grinder.  Add in finely diced peppers and onions.  Add in 1/2-3/4 c. of panko bread crumbs.  Add in 3/4 c of marinade.  Add ~1 tablespoon of mayonnaise.  Mix all of this together, and form patties.  We had 6 decent sized patties. 

In the meantime, he also bought a pineapple, which he cut into spears.  He set aside 4 spears to grill.

While he was doing all that, I made a relish to go with the burgers.  I took the remainder of the pineapple, along with the peppers and onions – again finely diced – and mixed it all together.  I added some ginger powder (again, if I had fresh, I would’ve used) and the marinade.  I mixed everything up and put it in the fridge to chill and let the flavors meld.

Start grilling the pineapple.  Since this was the first time for us to do this, we didn’t know how long to grill the pineapple.  We could have grilled the pineapple a little longer.  We started with the pineapple, and then added the burgers.

Grill the burgers – about 4 minutes a side.  As the burgers are finishing up, put a coat of marinade on each side.

Serve burgers with grilled pineapple spears and the relish on top or on the side.

Here’s the proof (forgot to take pics before I started eating…but if I was eating it, it was good!   )