How to Prepare Award-winning Brown rice and tuna salad

Brown rice and tuna salad.

Hello everybody, hope you're having an incredible day today. Today, we're going to make a special dish, brown rice and tuna salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Brown rice and tuna salad is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It's appreciated by millions every day. Brown rice and tuna salad is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook brown rice and tuna salad using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Brown rice and tuna salad:

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

Instructions to make Brown rice and tuna salad:

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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