Recipe: Appetizing Brown rice and tuna salad

Brown rice and tuna salad. More tuna salad recipes you may like are Chickpea Tuna Salad, Tuna Salad Wraps and Mayo-less Tuna Macaroni Salad. The inspiration for this recipe is a Tips for Brown Rice Tuna Salad: I drained the tuna really well and reserved some of the olive oil to add to my salad - winner! As a test, I left one.

Add tomatoes, cucumber, rocket and tuna to rice. This tuna salad is perfect if you're on a diet. We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. You can cook Brown rice and tuna salad using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Brown rice and tuna salad

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

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Brown rice and tuna salad step by step

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!.

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