Tuna And Cucs
From elgourmand 15 years ago
- - to make
- Serves 6
This is a real simple salad sort of dish. You’ll see a hundred ways to change it and, truth be told, it never actually comes out exactly the same twice. Some blighter is always throwing cooked squid or black olives or some such in it. Read more I’ll give you the basics and you can go from there. The basics are actually quite nice. You’ll notice we use a very modest amount of coconut cream here. You’ll be opening a can of Peepee and be tempted to use the lot. Please don’t. Make it basic, try it and then throw all the rest of what comes to mind in. This is a snack for four or five so just make more as needed. See less
Ingredients
- • 500g fresh, raw Yellow fin type tuna fillets, cubes say 1”. Frozen works if it was frozen right. shopping list
- • 1 to 1 ½ cups fresh, crisp, cucumber, peeled, seeded and cubed shopping list
- • 2 Tbs lemon juice shopping list
- • 1 Tbs salt shopping list
- • 2 cups very cold water shopping list
- • A scant ¼ cup mild yellow onion, chopped shopping list
- • 3 Tbs coconut cream shopping list
- • 2 Tbs olive oil shopping list
- • salt and fresh ground pepper to taste. shopping list
How to make it
- 1. In a mixing bowl mix the 1 Tbs salt with the 2 cups cold water.
- 2. Peel, seed and cube the cucumber and put it in the salted water for 10 to 15 minutes, stirring two or three times.
- 3. Cube the Yellow fin (or whatever fresh tuna you’re using) and put in a separate bowl.
- 4. Add the lemon juice and fold a few times while your cucumbers are soaking.
- 5. when your cucumber is soaked drain well.
- 6. Add the rest of the ingredients to the fish and fold a few times leaving set for ten minutes or so.
- 7. Add the cucumber and fold some more. This gets better if you let it set in the fridge for 30 minutes or so but that’s optional.
- 8. Salt and pepper to taste and serve and enjoy.
- Don’t know why some folks get excited about raw fish. When I lived in Hawaii the local guys would take a fresh caught fish, gut and head it, take off the skin, smear some soy and wasabi on it and eat off the bone. Personally I always cut it off the bone in strips and ate it that way but that’s because my mama taught me good manners.
The Rating
Reviewed by 8 people-
This sounds like a recipe my wife will love. Cucumbers are one of her favorite things. I may have a little trouble finding fresh yellowfin here but it's worth a trip to the fishmonger.
"Scant".. LOL. My father-in-law was a millworker. ...more
dugger
in Crestwood (suburb Of Louisville) loved it
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