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Spicy Grilled Tuna with Garden Salsa

By Merritt Watts and Rick Bayless

4.9

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Photo by Kana Okado

The rooftop of chef Rick Bayless's Chicago restaurant Frontera Grill is dedicated to growing tomatoes, hot peppers and herbs for fresh salsas. Multicolored heirloom tomatoes can be sweeter than other types, Bayless says, and they offer a hefty dose of infection-fighting vitamin C.

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