Dinner, 03/27/2009 - Curried tuna & tempeh sandwiches

[anthrorabbit]

It's been a while since I've posted one of these, so here you go!

For Friday's dinner, I made my classic curried tuna & tempeh salad sandwiches, with broccoli sprouts. I used a little less curry powder than I normally do, so it didn't pack the heat it usually does, but it was still quite good.

Comments

[mamagotcha]

Hmm. The only tempeh I've ever used was flavored with lemon, and it was because I was not eating meat at the time. It's never occurred to me to mix it up with animal proteins... how did you come up with the combo?

I do make a curried tuna (or albacore) salad fairly often. I love adding toasted sliced almonds and bits of Granny Smith apple to it.

Your chili sounded pretty experimental (and good!)... I didn't know you were into cooking. Yes, please, do post more of these!

[anthrorabbit]

It's the same basic concept as adding the almonds. I get regular tempeh, dice it into small cubes, sautee it in a little butter or coconut oil until it lightly browns, let it cool briefly, then add it to the tuna salad mixture. Then I add curry powder until the flavor is right.

I came up with it after an NPR story that mentioned the curried tuna. My brain called for tempeh!

Oh, and there's a local pizza place that had lemon tempeh as a pizza topping for a while. It was awesome.