Olive Oil Poached Tuna (Tuna Confit).

You can cook Olive Oil Poached Tuna (Tuna Confit) using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Olive Oil Poached Tuna (Tuna Confit)

1. It's of fresh tuna.
2. Prepare of garlic, smashed.
3. It's of dried thyme.
4. You need of olive oil, or as needed.
5. It's of sea salt, optional.

Olive Oil Poached Tuna (Tuna Confit) instructions

1. Let tuna back to room temperature. Cut it into several pieces as needed..
2. Combine garlic and thyme on a heavy skillet. Pour over enough olive oil to just cover the tuna. Heat it on medium heat until the garlic begin to sizzles..
3. Place tuna in hot oil and reduce heat to low. Cook it in hot oil and spooning oil over tuna constantly until the color turn to white, around 5 minutes. Flip it once if needed. Turn off heat..
4. Remove from heat and transfer all of them to container. Let stand until room temperature..
5. Wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight or 24 hours..
6. Remove tuna to another container, sprinkle sea salt over the fish. Strain the oil from garlic and thyme, you can re-use the oil for another..