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Tuna salad in a curry

Tuna Salad in a curry

Easy curry sauce for Canned Tuna
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Servings: 4 people
Course: lunch, Salad
Ingredients Method Notes

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

Method
 

Salad Dressing
  1. Drain water from tuna cans to a bowl. reserve half a cup from it and discard the rest
  2. Pond turmeric root, ginger garlic together, followed by yellow curry powder and black curry powder to make seasoning paste
  3. 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.
  4. Slice curry leaves and green chili thinly and add to the oil. Sauté until color changes
  5. 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.
  6. gently mix the Tuna flakes in. Sprinkle cayenne pepper on top.
  7. 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.