Smart Recipes with Umami

Grilled Tuna and Vegetables

  • Umami-rich Recipes with Seafood

Grill tuna and vegetables in a pan and finally skewer them.It is filling enough as an appetizer or as a snack and for use in lunch boxes as well.

 Ingredients( for 2 persons )

  • 80g tuna
  • 1/6 onion
  • 2 asparagus
  • olive oil
  • salt to taste
  • grated garlic
  • mix herb

 Recipes

  • 1. Cut tuna and onion into 2cm cubes and cut asparagus into 2cm lengths.
  • 2. Heat olive oil in a frying pan and sear tuna and vegetables.
  • 3. Skewer onions, tuna, and asparagus in order. Serve them.

Umami Score of Main Ingredients in the Recipe

まぐろ

Tuna

Inosinate :
250〜360mg/100g

アスパラガス

Asparagus

Glutamate :
50mg/100g

調理時間 15分

  • Cooking time : 15 minutes
  • Calorific Value : 180 kcal

Tuna is rich in umami substance, inosinate, asparagus is rich in glutamate and so forth. Paring of these two ingredients provides umami synergy and makes dish tasty.

Source

「うま味」パワーの活用便利帳

By using umami power, make your daily dishes more delicious

Seishun shuppannsha 2013 August

  • About 150 recipes by cooking specialist Fumiyo Kawakami are presented in the book.
  • The Umami Information Center provides basic umami information and Dr. Takashi Yamamoto, our president, supervised the book.