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Tuna and cucumber parcels

Recipe from: - SHAPE 11/1/2001

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Ingredients

500

g

sashimi-quality tuna, cut into large chunks
15

ml

crushed garlic
15

ml

minced ginger
1

big lemon (juice only)
1

orange (juice only)
5

ml

brown sugar
15

ml

fish sauce
1

cucumber
DIPPING SAUCE
2

red chillies, chopped
250

ml

white wine vinegar
75

ml

white sugar
30

ml

fresh lime juice
15

ml

fish sauce

Method

Place tuna chunks in a shallow dish. Mix garlic, ginger, citrus juices, sugar and fish sauce together and pour over tuna. Leave to marinate for about 2 hours. Meanwhile, blend dipping sauce ingredients together and set aside. Using a potato peeler, shave long ribbons off cucumber and cut in half. Drain tuna. Wrap a piece of tuna in a cucumber ribbon and secure with a lemongrass stick, simple bamboo skewer or whatever else you can find. Serve with dipping sauce on the side. Total values: 3 047,3 kJ; 37,6 g carbohydrate; 130 g protein; 4,3 g fat

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