Tuna mix included green olives, onion, pepperoncini, jalapeno, mayo, mustard. The bread is pumpernickel rye that I crusted with cotija cheese. For the cheese I went with smoked cheddar.
Was it tasty? Yes. The extra crunch from the cheese crust was amazing. I gotta use up this cotija before it goes bad and it is a perfect parmesan substitute for lots of things.
Cost was about $5.25 per person.
Oof, I’ve never put nearly that much flavorful stuff into tuna for a sandwich, this sounds amazing. What have I been doing?!
Go whole hog with Mathew McConaughey recipe:
Ingredients
10 ounces canned high-quality tuna packed in oil
1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/3 cup mayonnaise, plus more as desired
2 teaspoons wasabi paste
1/4 cup red onion, finely diced
1/4 dill pickle gherkins, finely diced
1/3 cup crispy jalapeno chips
1/4 cup chopped apple
1/2 tablespoon agave syrup
1/2 cup fresh corn kernels
1/4 cup frozen peas
Directions
Step 1: Make the dressing
In a small mixing bowl, combine the white wine vinegar, lemon juice, mayonnaise and wasabi paste.
Step 2: Mix with tuna
Next, combine the canned tuna and dressing in a medium bowl and stir until evenly mixed.
Step 3: Toss in everything but the kitchen sink
You had me until the agave and corn. I’m a “corn belongs on the cob, nixtamalized for tortillas and not much else” kind of person. Much to the disappointment of my wife who thinks corn can make most anything better.
I’d just sub honey on that agave. Not a fan of overpriced sugars, especially when they haven’t reached their full potential by being fermented and mixed with triple sec, lime and ice.
That is a LOT of stuff hahaha I wanna try it!
Ha, you and me both. I got the ingredients together a while back and then entirely spaced on it. Time to restock the perishables and give it a go.
Dang, I know how that goes. Makes for a good dish for folks like us in that case, lot of it keeps for quite a while lol
Not adding flavor?
Disappointing you, myself, and so, so many taste buds
We all learn things for the first time. Today I figured out that a cheese crusted sandwich is not just possible but adds that extra crunch that makes it awesome.
That does make it tasty, I can stand to do a bit more of that too. Here’s my decadent unconventional (but extremely easy) sandwich topper - crunch-less, sadly, but could probably be improved with some cheese crustin.
I like to melt some butter with red miso, about 50/50 or so? You’ll know the consistency after messing around a bit. Red miso is super dense flavor wise of course and also doesn’t mix easily, so yeah. Today I put it thinly on half a bagel, cream cheese on the other half, toasted, random stuff in between. You can add brown sugar to make it sweeter, or any kind of spice, also both lol.
Meanwhile I couldn’t eat breakfast until after I made a batch of walnut, pecan and craisin granola because I was too busy buying a car for 8 hours yesterday to make it then. Didn’t get my breakfast until noon as a result.