Tuna paste for sandwiches: ten minutes, one fork, for work and school
Canned tuna squeezed dry, mashed with a fork with yogurt and a spoon of mayonnaise, with red onion, brined pickle and chives. Don't blend it: the paste should have texture, not be smooth. It comes together in ten minutes and keeps up to three days in an airtight container in the fridge, so half a week of breakfasts is ready in advance.
Your own work in that: 10 min.
- Mixing 7 min
- Sandwiches 3 min
Step by step
0 / 4 doneDrain the tuna
Tip the tuna into a sieve and press it with a fork to squeeze out the liquid. Wet tuna waters down the paste and within an hour the sandwiches are soggy.
Ingredients: 2 pcs tuna chunks · 3 tbsp Greek yogurt · 1 tbsp mayonnaise · ½ pcs red onion · 2 pcs brined pickled cucumbers · ½ bunch chives · ½ pcs lemon, juice · 1 tsp mustard · ½ tsp black pepper · 1 pinch salt
Pressed with a fork, liquid poured offChop the additions
Dice the onion very finely, squeeze the pickles and dice them the same, snip the chives. If the onion is very pungent, cover it with boiling water for a minute and drain well.
Onion, pickle, chives, all fineMix with a fork
Mash the tuna with a fork in a bowl, add the yogurt, mayonnaise, mustard, lemon juice, pepper and salt, and mix. Add the onion, pickles and chives. Don't use a blender: the paste should have texture, not be a smooth mousse.
TipYogurt instead of mayonnaise alone gives a lighter paste and a clearer taste of the fish. The one spoon of mayonnaise stays for a creaminess yogurt can't give on its own.
A fork, not a blenderSpread on bread
Spread thickly on slices of rye bread, lay fresh cucumber slices on top and grind over some pepper. For a lunchbox: paste in one container, bread separate, assembled on the spot.
Ingredients: 8 pcs rye bread · 1 pcs fresh cucumber
Thick on the bread, cucumber on top
Before you start
With egg
Two chopped hard-boiled eggs in the paste: more filling and cheaper, one can of tuna feeds four.
With sweetcorn and pepper
Half a can of sweetcorn and half a red pepper in fine dice: the sweeter version children like.
For pasta
The same paste loosened with 3 spoons of yogurt and tossed with cooked pasta is a lunch salad in five minutes.
