{"id":439,"date":"2011-03-23T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philonfood.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2023-03-13T17:15:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:15:47","slug":"a-light-meal-can-still-be-indulgent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philonfood.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/23\/a-light-meal-can-still-be-indulgent\/","title":{"rendered":"A light meal can still be indulgent&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other night I really fancied a light dinner (I think the weekend sunshine put me in a Summery mood).  Something light but tastey.  I stopping by the shops on the way home and wondering past the fish counter I noticed some nice looking tuna steaks and decided to get them and try something with them.<\/p>\n<p>And the result: Improvised furikake crusted seared tuna steaks with stir-fried veg in a light teriyaki sauce and rice noodles &#8211; it fitted the brief perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t come across it before, furikake is a condiment seasoning comprising sesame seeds and a dried seaweed mix &#8211; on the tuna steaks it toasted nicely and with the seaweed didn&#8217;t need additional seasoning.  You could substitute with sesame seeds and salt for a similar effect.<\/p>\n<p>As for the teriyaki sauce, it was really simply a mix of tamari (Japanese soy sauce), mirin (a syrup made from fermented rice), and a little water to make it go a little bit further without having to put in too much salt and sugar from the other ingredients.  Added to my fast-fried veg (still with some bite to it) with fresh chillies &#8211; &#8220;fresh&#8221; is the way I&#8217;d describe it.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you just have something in mind, and for me there&#8217;s nothing more satisfying when something improvised comes together just as you want.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-442\" title=\"Japanese Ingredients\" src=\"http:\/\/philonfood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japanese_ingredients.jpg?w=269\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night I really fancied a light dinner (I think the weekend sunshine put me in a Summery mood). Something light but tastey. I stopping by the shops on the way home and wondering past the fish counter I noticed some nice looking tuna steaks and decided to get them and try something with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philonfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philonfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philonfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philonfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philonfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/philonfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/philonfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philonfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philonfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philonfood.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}