Tuna, sweetcorn & pea salad in Baby Gem lettuce wraps

Tuna, avocado & pea salad in Baby Gem lettuce wraps

By Jennifer Irvine
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Prep: 10 mins No cook

Easy

Serves 2

Skip the bread and serve tuna and crunchy vegetables in rolled, crisp lettuce leaves as a super-light lunch

Nutrition and extra info

  • Healthy
  • Gluten-free

Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal277
  • fat12g
  • saturates3g
  • carbs22g
  • sugars7g
  • fibre8g
  • protein20g
  • salt0.2g
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Ingredients

  • 1½ tbsp low-fat natural yogurt
  • 85g canned tuna chunks (in spring water), drained
    Tuna

    Tuna

    tune-ah

    A member of the mackerel family, tuna are mainly found in the world's warmer oceans. They…

  • 50g cooked and cooled rice (use leftover from Prawn, butternut & mango curry dinner if made - see 'goes well with', right)
    Rice

    Rice

    r-eye-s

    Rice is a grain, the seed of a type of grass, which is the most widely grown and the most…

  • 85g frozen pea, cooked, then refreshed in cold water
  • ½ red pepper, chopped
  • 1 avocado, stoned, peeled and cut into chunks
    Avocado

    Avocado

    av-oh-car-doh

    Although it's technically a fruit, the mild-flavoured avocado is used as a vegetable. Native…

  • zest and juice 1 lime
    Lime

    Lime

    ly-m

    The same shape, but smaller than…

  • small pack coriander, chopped
  • 1 large Baby Gem lettuce, or other crisp lettuce, such as cos

Method

  1. Combine all the ingredients except the lettuce in a bowl, season, then chill until ready to eat. Spoon the tuna mix on top of the lettuce leaves, wrap up and enjoy.

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joinkendal
29th Apr, 2015
3.05
I used the ingredients (mostly) but couldn't face another meal fail (after day 1 of summer diet plan) so had to change it up a bit. Hubby wasn't going to faff with lettuce wraps, I don't like avocado, using lime juice and zest of a whole lime usually end s up too limey for us and mixing up everything with only 1.5 tbsp. of yoghurt was going to end up dry in texture and bland, so with some brain trickery we got there. In one bowl I mixed the peas, tuna, yog and 1 tsp of curry powder (brain fake: coronation tuna), in another bowl I mixed the slimy, tasteless avocado with lime juice, coriander and added 3 chopped spring onions (brain fake: guacamole), laid the baby gem lettuce leaves at the bottom of the bowl, spooned the 'guacamole' on top, sprinkled the chopped peppers next to break up the green, and added the 'coronation tuna' on top. Didn't use the rice. It looked yummy and tasted yummy :)
rachelturusem
5th Aug, 2014
5.05
Really light and fresh taste. Ate it without putting it in the lettuce, as the omelette breakfast had filled us up.
felicityhm
11th Jul, 2014
5.05
A lovely fresh tasting lunch with zingy flavours.
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Chuns
6th Jul, 2014
5.05
I really enjoyed this. Really good idea for a light, but filling lunch!
sandieb
18th Jun, 2014
:o) I notice that they've changed the name of this now....
carrolladrienne
16th Jun, 2014
No sweetcorn in this recipe?
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hollowl
15th Jun, 2014
4.05
loved this. i just chopped the the gem lettuce up and mixed it in to eat as a salad instead of fiddling to wrap it all up
trier99
15th Jun, 2014
3.05
Really tasty and zesty - although I'm on day 2 of the Summer diet plan and have to admit, I'm starting to miss salt! Also, the name of the dish mentions sweetcorn, but there's none in the recipe. I added some anyway as I'd already opened the tin by the time I noticed.
sbaroudi
15th Jun, 2014
Was delicious but the recipe name says sweet corn and it's not included in the ingredient list?
eperson
14th Jun, 2014
where's the sweetcorn?
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