Tuna and asparagus stir fry

With all the activities in the recently concluded Tuna Festival, one can’t help but be inspired with cooking all the tuna dishes that you can. Here’s another tuna dish using crazy cut slices done the classic stir fry way. All the ingredients you can find here in Gensan.

Tuna and asparagus stir fry

2 tbsp cooking oil
3 cloves garlic, chopped coarsely
1/4 tsp chili powder (or according to preference)
1 tsp brown sugar
1 tbsp patis (fish sauce)
250 grams crazy cut tuna
1 red bell pepper, sliced thinly
12 pcs asparagus spears sliced into 2-inch length

Heat 2 tbsp oil and add the garlic and chili powder. Stir 2-3 times then add sugar and patis. Let simmer… smell the aroma of sugar, garlic and patis. Yum! Add the tuna and stir fry until tuna is half done, about 2 minutes. Add the bell pepper and asparagus  and stir fry till tuna and vegetables are cooked through. Note that as you stir fry, apply high heat to the pan so the juices from tuna and asparagus don’t boil the ingredients. Remove from heat and serve immediately.

How simple is this? Where to get the tuna in Gensan? Check out these shops: RDEX, Pacific Seas and Citra Mina. Or you can go to Gensan’s public markets and get whole slew of different tuna parts – tuna cubes, tuna skin (tuna chicharon, anyone?), roe, etc… As for asparagus, with it’s many benefits such as being anti-cancer (no more cancer treatment & prescriptions!), is found in Gensan all year round. Now, you don’t have to have only asparagus and oyster sauce. You can have tuna and asparagus in one dish!