Honey Lime Glazed Grilled Ahi with Benihana style salad

MONDAY
Honey Lime Glazed Grilled Ahi Tuna
This very simple glaze recipe is great paired with meaty Ahi tuna fillets. The tangy limes and the sweet honey work so well with the subtle smokiness from the grill. This grilled Ahi tuna recipe is best if the fish is cooked medium-rare.

Makes 4 Honey Lime Glazed Grilled Ahi Tuna Fillets
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:
2 limes, juiced
1/4 cup olive oil
2 tbsp rice vinegar
2 cloves garlic, crushed and minced
1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
4 six-ounce Ahi tuna fillets
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
1/4 cup honey
vegetable oil, as needed for grill
Preparation:

In a bowl, whisk together the lime juice, olive oil, rice vinegar, garlic, and ginger. Lay the tuna fillets on a plate, season with salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste, and spoon over 1/2 of the glaze, turn to coat evenly. Let marinate for 30 minutes in the refrigerator. Add the honey to the remaining half of the glaze and mix well.

Heat an outdoor grill on high. When the grates are hot, lightly oil, and place tuna fillets on grill. Cook for about 2 minutes, and turn over, brushing the glaze over the cooked side. Grill 2 minutes more for medium-rare to medium. When fish is cooked transfer to a plate and brush the honey lime glaze over the other side of fillet.

Serve immediately with any remaining glaze with white steamed rice.

We're going to have this with a salad Benihana style.
The salad will be rather simple, romaine lettuce, carrots sliced thin or shredded, green onion, sliced. Maybe a tomato or two chopped.

Benihana Salad dressing recipe
Ingredient
¾ cup Chopped onion
¾ cup Peanut oil
6 tablespoons Rice wine vinegar
6 tablespoons Water
3 tablespoons Fresh chopped ginger root
3 tablespoons Chopped celery
3 tablespoons Soy sauce
4½ teaspoon Tomato paste
4½ teaspoon Sugar
4 teaspoons Lemon juice salt and pepper to taste

Combine all ingredients in a blender or food processor and process until very smooth. Makes enough to fill a tupperware squeeze bottle. Refridgerate. *Note...I found the 3 Tablespoons of fresh ginger root to be a little hot, so you might try using the chopped ginger in a jar because it is a little milder than the fresh. Also, you can add a little more soy sauce if you would like! It has the best flavor after it has been refrigerated a day or two! Michael Kapps (almcepud@...) said that the chef at Benihana's San Fransisco gave him a xerox copy of his secret recipe book for his birthday so, this is the real one-and-only Benihana's ginger dressing straight from the guys in charge. NOTES : (This is supposed to be the true one!)