I was driving to Soon Lee to get some groceries for dinner and I was thinking how can I dish up something with tuna and bread. I love tuna and I was going to cook a Western dinner so I made this little roll-ups of bread filled with creamy tuna and crunchy cucumber. This is actually quite great as an appetizer or as finger food for your parties. Here's the recipe:
Tuna Roll-Ups -Ok, so the pic may not look as appetizing as they are a little burnt (extra crunchy) but they seriously taste good ok? LOL
Ingredients:
8 pieces of bread; de-crusted & flattened with a rolling pin
Filling:
A can of tuna; drained dry
4 tablespoons of mayonnaise
A few dashes of dried-rubbed parsley
3 inches of cucumber; seeds spooned out and diced
Salt & pepper to taste
A few tablespoons of Olive Oil
Method:
Mix all 'filling' ingredients in a bowl and put a spoon full of the tuna filling onto the bread. Leave just a cm off the top and the sides when you put the filling on the bread. Roll the bread and press it gently on a baking tray. Repeat the same for the rest of the bread until the filling is finished. Lightly brush the outer part of the rolled bread (all over) with the olive oil and bake the rolls in the oven for around 10 minutes at high heat (or gas 7) until bread turns light golden brown.
Serves: +- 8
*Tip*: Fasten the ends of the rolled bread with half of a toothpick so that it won't open up when it is baking in the oven. You should not put too much filling as it may ooze out of the bread during baking time. Smaller roll-ups can be made by cutting the bread into halves with a teaspoon of filling. Too add a bit of spiciness, add a little chili powder into the filling.
The outcome would be little bite sized roll-ups, smooth and creamy on the inside, crunchy on the outside. Try it!
