Brown rice and tuna salad
Brown rice and tuna salad

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, brown rice and tuna salad. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

I adapted this recipe from one I found in a cookbook. It is not only healthy, it is delicious! This easy Brown Rice and Tuna Salad recipe is full of colorful vegetables that have been sautéed, seasoned and blended with fluffy rice.

Brown rice and tuna salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Brown rice and tuna salad is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have brown rice and tuna salad using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Brown rice and tuna salad:
  1. Make ready 1 cup brown rice, cooked
  2. Make ready 1 pc. bell pepper or tomato, chopped
  3. Make ready 1/2 pc. cucumber, deseeded, chopped
  4. Take 1 clove garlic, minced
  5. Make ready 1/2 onion, small, finely chopped
  6. Get Handful dried fruit / pineapple tidbits, drained
  7. Prepare Handful lettuce
  8. Make ready Protein & Spices
  9. Get 1/2 can chunky tuna in water/brine, drained
  10. Make ready Handful chopped walnuts
  11. Take 1/8 cup lemon / lime juice
  12. Take Dash salt, to taste (garlic salt is ok too)
  13. Make ready Dash paprika or cayenne, to taste
  14. Get Dash olive oil, to taste
  15. Prepare Dash honey, to taste
  16. Get Optional
  17. Prepare 1 tbsp mayo-less egg salad (check my cookpad page for recipe)OR
  18. Prepare 1 tbsp hummus

I enjoy eating it warm, or cold. It also has the additional benefit of decreasing the fishy taste that sometimes is associated with tuna salad. Some of my taste testers have been convinced that they were eating chicken salad. This easy and delicious salad of white rice, light tuna, corn, and pickle relish is great for lunch or an afternoon snack.

Steps to make Brown rice and tuna salad:
  1. Wash and cook brown rice according to package instruction.
  2. 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]
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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!

It makes also a great party dish. The only change I made was to use brown rice instead of white. Next time might follow other users' suggestions and try spinach feta and/or black olives and might add another carrot. Also I might store the leftover rice and salad separately to preserve it better. Place rice in a medium bowl.

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