Tuna salad

2 servings Prep: 20 mins
Rate this recipe
A hearty salad, perfect for load-shedding.

By Food24 February 16 2015
Recipe Disclaimer
Tap for method
Tap for method

Ingredients (24)

TUNA HEARTS:
2 tuna — sachets
2 yoghurt — double cream
1 spring onions — stem finely chopped, tips for salad
3 sun-dried tomatoes — finely chopped
1 tsp capers — finely chopped
1/4 cup sesame seeds — use for coating
1 tsp coriander — dried leaves
1 tsp onion seeds
1 cayenne pepper
1 bread — crostinis
Salad:
1 mango — peeled, stoned, chopped
1 pineapple — cubed
1/2 cucumber — baby, ribbons
1 spring onions — tips sliced
1 tomatoes — tiger stripe tomatoes and cherry tomatoes
3 artichokes — tinned hearts, quartered
3/4 feta cheese — crumbled
1 green peppercorns
SALAD DRESSING:
1 soy sauce
1 vinegar — balsamic
1 fresh ginger — sliced
1 green chillies — deseeded, sliced lengthwise
1/2 lemon — juice only
salt and freshly ground black pepper — to taste
Tap for ingredients
Tap for ingredients

Method:

For the tuna hearts

Mix the yoghurt and spring onion with lemon and pepper tuna flavor. Scoop about a table spoon and shape with your hand into a ball and then into a heart shape. Coat in the sesame seeds, cilantro leaves, onion seeds and cayenne pepper mix. Place clingfilm on the kitchen surface and place finished heart onto clingfilm. Now for the sun-dried tomato tuna flavor – mix in the yogurt, chopped sun-dried tomatoes, capers and olive oil. Then shape into hearts and coat with the crostini crumbs place onto clingfilm.

Dressing

Place all ingredients in bowl and rest at room temperature for about 15 minutes.

To plate your salad

First, place the mango and pineapple, arrange the tomatoes, spring onion, cucumber shavings, artichokes and feta cheese. Scatter over some green peppercorns and then the salad dressing. Finish off your salad with the tuna hearts on top.

Recipe reprinted with permission of Bouffilicious. To see more recipes, please click here.

To receive quick and convenient weekday recipes, join our Easy Weekday Meals mailing list, and for up-to-date trending food, restaurant and wine news subscribe to our Editor’s Weekly newsletter.

 



New recipes on Food24

Next Post

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Food24 Team Loves

Newsletter

Get weekly access to our best recipes, tips and tricks

Sign Up

Login to your account below

Fill the forms below to register

Subscribe to Newsletter

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Recipe Disclaimer

All recipe content is the responsibility of the party from whom such content originated. You agree that you use the content on Food24 at your own risk. Please read our editorial policy.