Vegan Tuna Mayo Salad with Red Rice

Nutritional Value of Vegan Tuna Mayo Salad with Red Rice

How to Make Vegan Tuna Mayo Salad with Red Rice

To make this tuna salad recipe using jackfruit, you will need a few ingredients, thankfully these are cusomisable and there are alternatives that I will suggest below!

• Jackfruit, must be young jackfruit in a tin
• Sweetcorn, fresh or cooked from frozen
• Vegan mayonnaise, have a go at making your own!
• Dijon mustard, or regular mustard
• Gherkin, swap for capers
• Red onion, swap for spring onion or chives
• Nori seaweed, swap for dulse flakes
• Lemon juice can use apple cider vinegar

To Serve With…

• Red rice, can swap with brown rice, black rice, or white rice
• Lettuce cups or try raw cabbage cups
• Salad Veggies of choice
• Sweet chili dipping sauce, chili or garlic sauce
  
  

Vegan Tuna Salad with Red Rice Recipe

Ingredients, check ✅ Let’s whip them up into a delish bowl of vegan tuna salad with red rice! All you’ve got to do is follow these steps:

Serves 2

Ingredients:

• 1 (14 oz) can young jackfruit, rinsed and drained
• ½ cup sweet corn
• ¼ cup vegan mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
• 1 tablespoon finely chopped gherkin (dill pickle)
• ¼ cup finely chopped red onion
• 1 sheet toasted nori seaweed, crumbled
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

To Serve:

• 1 cup dry red rice, cooked and cooled
• Little gem lettuce cups (optional, for serving)
• Red cabbage, tomato, cucumber, grated carrot (optional, for serving)
• Pickled Gerkins
• Sweet chili dipping sauce (optional, for serving)

Method:

1. First you'll need to prep your jackfruit, you can shred it with two forks then add it to a bowl followed by the other ingredients and mix. Set Aside.
2. Next, pick the largest leaves from your little gem lettuces, wash and cut off the white stem at the end, then place them in a bowl, you'll want six leaves, three for each bowl.
3. Now divide the jackfruit tuna between the lettuce cups, then add the salad of choice alongside and then the cooled rice to serve.

Enjoy!

The jackfruit tuna will store in the fridge up to 4 days, the flavours will continue to meld, just give it a stir before using again. This jackfruit tuna will go great inside a baked potato, or with pasta.

Check out my other jackfruit recipes for gluten-free jackfruit tuna pasta bake and super easy jackfruit spaghetti dump and bake!

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