Recipe: Aldi’s Tuna with Roasted Tomatoes and Garlic

Our own lovely Jacqueline and her partner Dave fed me again recently. I really enjoyed the sea bass, and Jacq told me that they’d picked it up in the freezer section of Aldi.

On a visit to Aldi a a few weeks ago, I made a beeline for the freezer section and picked up some frozen tuna steaks. Branded The Fishmonger, the bags contain a minimum of four steaks weighing 550g and cost just €4.49. There’s more than enough for four adults here, so the steaks could stretch to feed two adults and three kids.

Tuna’s delicious, and so rich and meaty that you only need a small amount. You need to restrict your intake because it contains traces of mercury (see these guidelines from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland; scroll to the end of the page for a summary). Also, caught in the Pacific Ocean, The Fishmonger’s tuna is  probably contributing to the terminal decline of the species; if it was sustainably caught, the packaging would probably have let me know, loudly.

So I ate it with some guilt, but that aside… it was delicious! We ate it with a roasted cherry tomato and  garlic sauce (cherry tomatoes, €1.59 in Aldi), which complimented the tuna so well, and served with baked potatoes and fine beans.

Have you tried frozen fish from Aldi or other shops? Can you share a good recipe? And do you, like me, get the guilts over its sustainability but decide to buy it anyway?

Grilled Tuna with Roasted Tomatoes and Garlic (Feeds 2)

Ingredients

• 2 tuna steaks
• 6 tomatoes, halved
• 2 cloves garlic, chopped (not crushed)
• A squeeze of honey
• 1 desert spoon balsamic vinegar
• A handful of basil leaves, torn roughly
• A dash of salt and pepper

Method

• Preheat the oven
• Mix all the ingredients together, except the basil and roast uncovered for about half an hour, or until the tomatoes are soft
• Mix in the basil, stir
• Pour over the fish
• Serve with steamed green beans and baked potatoes or chips