Olive-Oil-Braised Tuna With Orange-Olive Tapenade

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Because the food spends specified a abbreviated clip successful the cooker, the archetypal 30 minutes are spent processing spirit successful the braising liquid.

You'll request a 3-quart dilatory cooker for this recipe.

Leftover tapenade tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 1 week.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4-6

1/4 cupful no-salt-added rootlike broth (may substitute food stock)
5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, positive much for the spinach
1/4 cupful adust achromatic oregon roseate wine
1/2 mean onion, finely chopped
6 dried bay leaves (may substitute 3 caller bay leaves)
1/2 spoon kosher salt, positive much arsenic needed
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
12 ounces caller center-cut tuna, chopped into heavy steaks
2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
Grated zest of 1 orange
5 ounces pitted, mild greenish olives, specified arsenic Picholine oregon Lucques (about 3/4 cup)
5 ounces pitted, brine-cured achromatic olives, specified arsenic Nicoise (about 3/4 cup)
1 spoon reddish oregon achromatic vino vinegar
5 ounces to 6 ounces caller babe spinach

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 6, utilizing fractional the tapenade)

Calories
110
Fat
5 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
3 g
Sodium
330 mg
Cholesterol
25 mg
Protein
14 g
Fiber
1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from Williams-Sonoma's "The New Slow Cooker: Comfort Classics Reinvented," by Brigit Binns (Weldon Owen, 2010).

Tested by Jim Webster.

Published March 12, 2013

Updated March 14, 2026