Ingredients

  • 2 cups red wine
  • 1/2 cup honey
  • 1/2 cup bonito stock
  • 8 shiitake mushrooms, tops scored
  • 6 cloves garlic
  • 1 teaspoon Japanese red pepper blend (sichimi)
  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
  • 5 to 6 mint leaves
  • 1 1/2 cups soy sauce
  • 8 stalks asparagus, cut in half, tops reserved and thinly sliced
  • 14 ounces tuna loin
  • Oil, for sauteeing
  • 1 tablespoon butter, to finish sauce

Method

  • Combine sauce ingredients in saucepot.
  • Taste.
  • Adjust seasoning if necessary.
  • Blanch asparagus in lightly salted water.
  • Slice tuna and season with salt and pepper.
  • Roll asparagus with tuna slices and briefly saute in hot oil.
  • Strain the sauce through a chinois.
  • Reserve the shiitakes.
  • Thinly slice the shiitakes, combine with the reserved asparagus tops, and finish the sauce with butter.
  • Add the sauce to the pan and reduce by one third.
  • Place sauce on plate with asparagus and shiitake mixture in center and tuna on top.