Baby Mustard Greens and Tuna Salad
This is a quick and easy salad that fills you up. Mixed with canned tuna and sliced tofu skin, which add extra dimensions to the texture, Baby Mustard Greens and Tuna Salad makes it easy to eat a lot of green leaves. The salad is dressed in just sesame oil, light soy sauce and a bit of mayonnaise.Don't forget to see the section 'MEAL IDEAS' below the recipe card! It gives you a list of dishes that I have already posted and this recipe that can make up a complete meal. I hope it is of help to you.
- Prep time
- 5 min
- Cook time
- 5 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 200g/7.1oz baby mustard greens ((note 1))
- 10g/0.4oz dried tofu skin sheet (, cut to 5cm/2" long x 5mm/3/16" wide strips (note 2))
- 65g/2.3oz canned tuna chunks in spring water (, drained (note 3))
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp mayonnaise ((note 4))
- A pinch of pepper ((optional))
Instructions
- 1
Soak the tofu skin strips in water for 5 minutes to rehydrate, then drain.
- 2
Bring water in a large pot to a boil. Add a pinch of salt (not in ingredients) and put the mustard greens in, ensuring that all leaves are submerged in the water.
- 3
When the water starts boiling again (note 3), drain and add cold water to the pot with the leaves to quickly cool them down.
- 4
Rinse each stem with running water to clean the root end of the clusters as they tend to accumulate soil.
- 5
Align all the stems with root side on the right (for right handers). Cut at the beginning of the root and discard the root bits. Starting from the root end, cut the leaves to 5cm long pieces.
- 6
Take a handful of chopped leaves at a time, squeeze and drain water and transfer them to a mixing bowl.
- 7
Squeeze water out of the rehydrated tofu skin pieces and put them into the mixing bowl.
- 8
Add the tuna to the mixing bowl and mix well with other ingredients. Ensure that the pieces of mustard greens are separated (they get stuck together when the water is squeezed out) and mixed with other ingredients.
- 9
Add sesame oil, soy sauce and mayonnaise. Add pepper if using and mix all ingredients well.