Hi, I’m Clara. Today, I will show you a way to prepare brown rice and tuna salad recipe. Never miss today’s recipe. This is a simple recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. Nowadays, I’m gonna make it a little bit more unique. This will be really delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Brown rice and tuna salad Recipe
Brown rice and tuna salad is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Brown rice and tuna salad is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook brown rice and tuna salad using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Brown rice and tuna salad:
- Make ready 1 cup brown rice, cooked
- Get 1 pc. bell pepper or tomato, chopped
- Take 1/2 pc. cucumber, deseeded, chopped
- Get 1 clove garlic, minced
- Prepare 1/2 onion, small, finely chopped
- Get Handful dried fruit / pineapple tidbits, drained
- Prepare Handful lettuce
- Prepare Protein & Spices
- Prepare 1/2 can chunky tuna in water/brine, drained
- Make ready Handful chopped walnuts
- Prepare 1/8 cup lemon / lime juice
- Prepare Dash salt, to taste (garlic salt is ok too)
- Prepare Dash paprika or cayenne, to taste
- Get Dash olive oil, to taste
- Take Dash honey, to taste
- Prepare Optional
- Get 1 tbsp mayo-less egg salad (check my cookpad page for recipe)OR
- Prepare 1 tbsp hummus
Steps to make Brown rice and tuna salad:
- Wash and cook brown rice according to package instruction.
- Prepare your bell peppers, onion, and garlic: wash, slice, chop and place them all on a big bowl. [You also have to option to quick fry your onion and garlic if you like, before mixing them with other ingredients]
- On the same bowl, add in all the specified protein and spices [and the optional ingredients you fancy]. Set aside and cover while waiting for rice to cook.
- Wash your lettuce, then dry, and cut them into bite sizes by hands. Transfer 1 serving of lettuce on a serving bowl and set aside. Keep leftover lettuce on a ziplock bag and store in fridge. Note: Using a knife to cut lettuce makes lettuce taste bitter. Strange but true, based from experience.
- Soon as the brown rice is cooked. Take 1 cup rice. Add them to the bowl of quickly marinated veggies (w/o lettuce). Mix them well.
- For 1 serve, transfer 1/2 cup brown rice mixture on the serving bowl with lettuce and stir them a bit. Garnish with extra chopped walnuts or dried fruit if you want.
- Keep the brown rice mix leftovers on a container then store in fridge. And it would taste even better the next day! If the leftover mixture has cooled down, you can mix-in the lettuce before storing the meal in fridge. Or alternatively, just bring a ziplock of lettuce with your packed brown rice and mix them upon consumption. Enjoy!
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