Easy Fried Canned Tuna
There things in life you do not see yourself enjoying. For me canned tuna was one of those. I tasted it a long time ago and I really did not like it. I later resorted to taking the “flavoured” (for lack of a better word) one eg, mango salsa, thousand island, coronation etc. I stayed like this for years till some time in 2011 when I had dinner at my pal Liz’s house and she had made fried canned tuna with ugali that I really enjoyed. I remember thinking to myself that that was a new discovery but I did not think of it again till some time last year when I ate the same dish at my pal Mo’s house.
Now I’m not saying anything (-: but Mo’s tuna was delicious. She had put in some onions and tomatoes and fish masala. Then she served it with sukuma and ugali….. my GAWD that food was tasty and I just had to try it out myself. I remember I even borrowed her fish masala on that day I went to Kakuma town the next day and bought the tuna and that night I fell in love with the dish all over again.
To be honest my best is when I use Tropical Jaan chilli flakes tuna. Its amazing. HAPPY COOKING!!
Ingredients
- 1 canned tuna
- 1 medium onion (sliced)
- 1 large tomato or 2 small (chopped)
- 1 tablespoon crushed garlic
- 1 teaspoon chicken masala ( I use nature’s own)
- Small bunch of chopped dhania
- Salt, pepper and chilli to taste
Instructions
If your tuna is canned in oil open the can slightly and empty some of the oil into a pan and discard the rest. Use this oil to cook. Add in the onions and cook till translucent then add in the garlic till its aromatic.
Once the garlic is aromatic add in the tomatoes, fish masala, salt, pepper and chilli and cook till the tomatoes are soft then add in the Dhania cook for 2 mins then add in the tuna. Mix well and let to simmer for 3-4 minutes then serve with ugali.
HAPPY EATING!!
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Fried Calamari
Its amazing how we sometimes call ourselves food enthusiast while there is sooo much out there that we have not tried or are not even willing to try. I find that as Kenyans we live in our own little box of food. We have fixed notions of what food is. To us food is rice, ugali, chapati, mukimo served with meat (chicken, beef and fish <mostly tilapia unless you come from western or coast>) and sukuma wiki, spinach, cabbage and our local veggies. Rice should either be white or a pilau and if you’re a kikuyu like me you can mix everything including the kitchen sink into your rice or stew. Beef and chicken in stewed. And most of us rarely leave this box.
This box annoys me. I have called people over to my place here for tea and later the boys later go and say I made them “magic” WTH magic in this sense being mini pies, German style pancakes, churros etc just because I did not serve tea with bread and mandazi everything else is “magic” I know they mean it on a light note though. I also made my brothers a bacon and cheese burger (where everything in the burger not on the burger, ill post the recipe soon) and can you imagine what one little bugger called Nyaga said “Aaaiih Wangeci mimi nimezoea burger halafu bacon na cheese juu” ( I am used to having the burger with the bacon and cheese on top) AAAARRRRRG I was so upset but the annoying young man went ahead to eat 3!!
Anyway long stories aside, I am in that kind of box too. Just that my box is for extreme foods. And its not that I won’t eat them it’s just that I am scared of trying them eg snails, frogs, snakes. A few years ago though had I known that Calamari was actually cut up squid I probably would never have tasted it off my girl’s Waringa’s plate. A fish with tentacles is not anything I’d ever imagined I would love, actually it took me a while to get of my box on my hate for seafood. But I’m sure glad I did. I love calamari, it takes the flavour of whatever you put in it. I hope you will love this recipe as much as I do.
Ingredients
- Ingredients
- Calamari
- Garlic
- Juice of lemon
- Cayenne pepper
- Salt and pepper
- All-purpose flour
Instructions
Instructions
Slice the squid up to form rings, put them in a bowl. Add the lemon, garlic, some salt and a little cayenne. Let it soak for 10 minutes.
Mix the flour with the remaining salt and pepper.
Dip the marinated calamari in the seasoned flour shake off excess
Heat oil in a pan and once hot place the calamari rings and cook for 2-4 minutes. Do not cook them more than this as they will over cook and become chewy.
HAPPY EATING!!
Notes
I buy squid from a fish monger in Westlands near occidental house. you can also get from the fish monger on Ngong road at China Centre
