Tuna
fish recipes are great choice to start your day
with a plenty of food that taste tasty. You can use either fresh and raw tuna
or frozen tuna meats, but most people tend to use canned tuna fish because it
is easier to manage and almost every grocery store sold them. The simplest way
to taste a tuna is to make a simple tuna sandwich or tuna casseroles and we
believe you have certain memories of those tuna recipes when you were a little.
You can make a sandwich with tuna plus whole wheat bread. It is very simple but
provides a full of flavor.
For your information, canned tuna fish
usually are sold with three different forms and they are in chunk, fancy or
solid pack, and grated or flaked. The most expensive out of the three forms
should be the solid pack because it contains large chunks of fish meat while
canned chuck tuna has smaller fishes inside and thus sold in lower price. As
for grated and flaked tuna, this type of tuna is very mushy and that’s why you
maybe do not want to try or even buy this tuna. Anyway, there are various types
of canned tuna that sold at grocery stores such as:
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Yellowfin tuna: This tuna
usually labeled as light type of tuna on the cans and it has a bit stronger
flavor than albacore tuna. Light tuna itself consists of several other
different tunas as well.
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Albacore tuna: Although the
mercury level of albacore tuna is higher than the other types of tuna, but this
tuna is the most expensive canned tuna compared with other types of tuna.
Albacore tuna is labeled as white tuna on the cans and it has mildest flavor
thus you may want to substitute it with chicken meats in the recipes sometime.
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Bonita tuna: This tuna has the
highest fat content and strongest flavor and it is usually sold as canned
product. When you take a canned tuna at groceries store but you do not see any
labels like ‘white tuna’ nor ‘light tuna’ then it is highly possible the canned
tuna in your hand is skipjack tuna or bonita tuna.
Anyway, there is
some new variety of canned tuna products in stores which is shelf-stable and
sealed pouches. This product package the tuna without water or oils addition
that we mostly like to see when buying canned tuna for our simple tuna fish recipes. It also processed with
shorter time so the meats are fresher than usual canned tuna. Canned tuna is
sold with different flavors as well thanks to herbs or spices addition.
What is the
best canned tuna to use for tuna fish recipes?
Tuna is packed in either oils or waters,
however tuna in oils have superb flavor and if you drained off the can, it will
reduce the calories of tuna as well meaning it does not have many calories as
much as tuna in water. Meanwhile tuna in water provides fine taste of recipes
and tuna in vegetable oil has no additional flavor so it is better not to
choose that one.
Moreover, there are a lot of reports about
mercury level in canned tuna fish and many people recommends that you need to
limit consume the tuna meats up to 2 cans per week. Canned tuna labeled as
light tuna has lower mercury level white tuna (albacore) and that’s why you need
think about this information before you buy your tuna canned fish then make your recipes.
There are various tuna fish recipes that made from high quality tuna meats which you can try,
for example:
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Tuna Risotto which is wonderful
thanks to the creamy rice combined with tuna savory flavor
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Tuna Waldorf Salad which is
fresh and light, using tuna meat instead of chicken so it is cheaper
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Tuna Carbonara that combine
eggs, spaghetti, olive oil, chopped vegetables, and of course canned tuna
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Parmesan tuna sandwiches which
combine parmesan cheese, red bell pepper, mayonnaise, and tuna
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Grilled Tuna Melts which is
very simple to make and have delicious taste
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Tuna Croquettes which you need
to try and you can replace the tuna with salmon meat too
You can find those special tuna fish recipes on internet and try
to make them on your own in the weekend with!
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