TUNA SALAD

A wonderful salad. Very popular in the USA. One of those simple dishes that I love from the cooking in the USA. Simple but delicious. Let’s get started.

Ingredients:

3 5 oz cans of tuna in water, drained

A little piece of a green apple, the part with the skin

3 tablespoons chopped celery

3 tablespoons chopped onion

1 clove or garlic, chopped

Some mayonnaise sauce

Salt and pepper to taste

First open the tuna cans and drain them. With a fork “break” the tuna, but not too much. Put it in a bowl. Add the apple, diced. Add the celery, the onion and the garlic too. Mix well and add mayonnaise little by little till you get exactly the tuna salad you want. Do not add too much. Add salt and pepper to taste and then put the bowl in the fridge.

If you like it, you can add some mustard.

Serve cold. Perfect as a side. Enjoy!

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FRIED SMELTS

Some fish for today. Smelts. Small and delicious fish. Easy to cook. And so rewarding! Let’s cook.

Ingredients:

20 smelts

1 egg

Some breadcrumbs

½ teaspoon ground garlic

½ teaspoon dry parsley

Some salt and freshly ground black pepper

Some extra virgin olive oil

I like cleaning the smelts well. You have to remove the head and the guts. Do not remove the bone of the fish. It is not that heavy and it is good for you. Anyway, you can do it if you want. Remove the tail and the fins too, if you want.

Once you have the fish cleaned, heat some oil in a pan.

Take the smelts and put them in a container with a beaten egg. Then pass them to a container with breadcrumbs mixed with garlic, pepper and parsley. And then to the pan with hot oil. The smelts do not need too much frying. A couple of minutes on both sides. Or less. Do not overcook them.

And then you will have your smelts ready. They are really delicious. Enjoy!

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