Tuna Salad in a curry
Easy curry sauce for Canned Tuna
Ingredients
- 2 cans solid white tuna
- 3 tbsp plain Greek yogurt
- ½ inch Turmeric root
- ¼ inch ginger root
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 green chili
- 1 tsp yellow curry powder sliced
- 1 tsp black curry powder
- 1 small red onion
- 2 medium tomatoes
- 3 curry leaves
- ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 tbsp Oil
Instructions
Salad Dressing
- Drain water from tuna cans to a bowl. reserve half a cup from it and discard the rest
- Pond turmeric root, ginger garlic together, followed by yellow curry powder and black curry powder to make seasoning paste
- Heat a skillet over medium and warm up the spices in oil add yogurt and saved water from the tuna can. Adding water from the tuna can is optional.
- Slice curry leaves and green chili thinly and add to the oil. Sauté until color changes
- Add yogurt black curry powder and give a good whisk. turn the heat off and leave on the stove to for a minute or two to warm the yogurt up and blend the flavors together.
- gently mix the Tuna flakes in. Sprinkle cayenne pepper on top.
- Slice onions and tomatoes thinly, lay down a bed of cabbage leaves / lettuce on a plate and place Tuna salad on the bed of cabbage. Enjoy !
Notes
This recipe equally good as a sandwich dressing instead of cheese or mayo in picnic lunches.