Keto friendly spicy tuna bites - MIDWEEK BONUS RECIPE

I am not actually a Keto person, but I have found many of the recipes are actually in line with how I eat. Originally I found this recipe and after I made it, I made some tweaks to make it easier to eat and serve. Cucumbers are actually not the most nutrient packed vegetable, but they are awesome vessels of hydration and excellent for gnoshing between meals. My “Healthy Antipasto” recipe I wrote a while back involves adding cucumber, and I’ve gotten feedback this recipe has been well loved.

Honestly this bonus recipe was my own midweek win, because we can all use some spice in our life. Remember to clean or at least wipe out your can before you put it in the recycling bin, and well, the “wipe your can” is probably good advice always.

Ingredients

The firmest English cucumber you can find

Can of Tuna (in oil or water) - drained

2 tbs of mayonnaise (have it on hand though you may not use this much

3 tbls of Siracha (2 for the tuna and the 3rd, still in the bottle, to garnish)

tsp of powdered garlic

salt (to taste) - I omitted it but I would in the future salt the shaved cucumber pieces if I was making the recipe at the bottom again

tsp (or so of ground pepper- Add according to taste

Very ripe avocado

Plan of Attack

Cross Section view of the individual piece- it is hard to see the avocado, but as the advocate for the hidden avocado, I testify on a stack of cookbooks it’s in there…

Cut your English cucumber into 2 pieces an during your paring knife, cut a triangular wedge shaped channel down the middle of your cucumber and discard the insides.

Cut your very ripe avocado open and spread avocado in the channel

In your sm mixing bowl mix a very well drained can of tuna, siracha, powdered garlic, pepper, mayonnaise and love until completed integrated.

Fill the remaining room in the canal with tuna until it is overflowing with an abundance of spicy protein goodness

Drizzle Siracha over the top

With control, make an additional drizzle of mayonnaise (according to your preference) but you could also use a drizzle of Spanish crema. Using your paring knife, cut into bit sized pieces.

Spicy Cucumber Tuna wraps

Same ingredients, different presentation

On Spicy Cucumber Tuna Wraps- My comments: I was planning on making the original recipe, found at heyketomamma.com, but I had difficulty making my cucumbers work the way they should. It might be because I was using the more narrow English version which resembles the BFG’s snozcumber or it might be my vegetable peeler. The result is just as tasty, but for texture eaters, they might be so into the consistency of the wraps. If I were serving to others, I would definitely add sort of toothpick to keep everything together. They sure did photograph well! I chose to buy my English Cucumber partly because I was being fancy, but more honestly, because the traditional cucumber were looking a little limp and nobody, but nobody, likes an unfortunately limp cucumber. For the original go to www.HeyKetoMamma.com