London Tuna Salad
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An absolutely perfect combination. I haven't eaten tuna salad this good since my mother used to make it. I got the recipe from Rami (simion) and kept it about 95% unchanged - I just added herbs and mustard... that's about it. Thank you Rami, just so you know, it made my list of favorite foods from the first second I tasted it!
Rami "collected" the recipe from the London restaurant on the Tel Aviv waterfront. She calls it "London salad", and that's what it will remain for me too - a sophisticated name for a salad to match.
Below you'll also find a photo of Rami's salad. The difference in presentation is that she cut everything larger and placed it on a bed of lettuce, while I chopped the ingredients finely resulting in a paste-like consistency. I didn't mix the corn into the paste just for aesthetic reasons.
Ingredients
1 can tuna (160g)
1 green onion (or 1 tablespoon finely chopped dry onion)
1 small pickled cucumber
1 1/2 level teaspoons mustard
4 tablespoons olive oil (or oil from the can if the tuna is in oil)
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 sprigs dill
2 sprigs parsley
salt, pepper
a few lettuce leaves
4-6 tablespoons canned corn
10 almond-stuffed olives (or pepper-stuffed)
Servings: 2
How to prepare london tuna salad
- Drain the tuna can well. (if the tuna is in oil, keep that oil)
* I used Rio Mare tuna in its own juice - Slice the green onion into rounds. Dice the gherkin into small cubes. Chop the dill and parsley very, very finely.
- In a bowl, add all ingredients up to and including salt and pepper. Mix well with a fork until the mixture becomes almost paste-like. Taste for salt, pepper, and lemon juice.
- For a medium salad, place half of the lettuce leaves (green or red) in a salad glass/bowl. You can use whole leaves or cut them into strips. Then add about 2-3 tablespoons of canned corn. Place half of the tuna "paste" on top. Add some olives over the paste. Serve with crackers or salted breadsticks.
You can also serve as sandwiches: place a lettuce leaf on a slice of bread (can be toasted), then add the tuna "paste" mixed beforehand with corn, and place olive slices on top. Cover with another slice of bread.
Ingredients in the bowl
Tuna paste
Rami's salad
