Ahi (Tuna) Poke with Avocados

Recipe adapted from Tasty Kitchen, by aspicyperspective.

Ingredients:
~1lb Sashimi Grade Ahi Tuna Steak
(^I got my tuna at Costco. You can also buy it at Whole Foods or any Japanese Market)
1/2 cup white onions/1 whole shallot - thinly sliced (more if desired)
1/2 cup green onions - chopped
3 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp garlic chili sauce/Sriracha
1 tbsp sesame seeds - optional
Avocados - Optional
Spring Mix - Optional

Directions:
1. Pat the tuna dry, then dice into small cubes. Place into a bowl.
2. Chop onion/shallots and green onions. Add into bowl with the tuna.
3. Add soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic chili sauce, and sesame seeds (if desired) into bowl with tuna and onions.
4. Mix all ingredients together. Serve right away or place into an airtight tupperware and refrigerate.

Optional:
Add avocados to tuna poke when ready to serve. Also add desired amount of garlic chili sauce/Sriracha. You can also add spring mix instead of avocados and make a tuna poke salad.

Note: Pictured above is 1 serving - 1/4 cup tuna poke, 1/2 small avocado diced.
21 day fix - 1 red container, 1 blue container

Brown Rice Spam Musubi

Every once in a while, I get this craving for spam musubi. I don't feel good about eating a large amount of brown rice so I asked my boyfriend to make a brown rice version. I know it still isn't that healthy to eat spam musubi. When I really want to eat spam musubi though, I would rather have brown rice. Spam musubi is probably the only thing my boyfriend actually knows how to cook so I gave this project to him. He is the one who made the brown rice spam musubi in these pictures. It was really delicious! Good thing he doesn't cook much so we only eat this once in a while :)

I used hot & spicy spam. You can use any brand or flavor of spam you want. You can even use meat that you have cooked at home.

Rice vinegar: 

Recipe adapted from singleguychef.

Yields: 6-7 spam musubi (depending on thickness of spam)

Appliance and cookware used: rice cooker and spam musubi maker

First, add rice into a rice cooker pot then add 4 1/2 cups of drinking water. Cook the rice for about 90 mins in a rice cooker; brown rice will turn out best if there is a setting for brown rice on the rice cooker.

2 cups brown rice

4 1/2 cups of water

Next: You will have to cook the spam on a skillet. I would suggest waiting until the rice is almost done to cook the spam. 

Slice the spam into about 6-7 slice pieces while you are waiting for the rice; set aside

When the rice is almost ready, heat the pan on high. Once the pan is hot, turn the heat to medium. No oil is needed to cook the spam. Cook both sides of the sliced spam until brown.

1 can of spam of choice

Add rice vinegar into brown rice right after the rice is ready. You must add the vinegar into the rice while it is warm. Avoid using a metal bowl to mix the rice vinegar with the brown rice (the vinegar might react with the metal).

2 tbsp rice vinegar

Assemble your spam musubi using a spam musubi maker.

3-4 half sheets of nori cut in half

Here is a video to help you assemble the spam musubi if you do not have a spam musubi maker; CLICK HERE.

Place 1 half sheet of nori (cut in half) on a cutting board, the place the spam musubi making on top of the nori. Add rice into the spam musubi maker. 

Place the spam on top of the rice. 

Add another layer of rice on top of the spam.

Remove the spam musubi maker then use a small amount of water to "glue" the nori together.

Here is the final product :)

Calories may vary depending on the type of meat used. 

Source: Calorie Count