Simple healthy avocado tuna salad sushi bowls. Naturally gluten free and low mercury tuna salad recipe mixed with fun sushi ingredients, then tossed all in a bowl. This is a tuna salad for sushi lovers or anyone looking for a great an easy lunch!
the perfect lunch bowl!
Oh goodness, I am so excited. Like BEYOND excited to share this Tuna Salad Sushi Bowl with you. Yes, it’s like my new favorite lunch. Okay along with these wraps, but also because of the AMAZING tuna that makes the tuna salad within. Amazing CANNED tuna that is all the things. And when I say all the things I’m talking like all the things canned tuna should be. SAFE! Safe for you, safe for me, safe for kids, safe for pregnant mama’s! Yep, you heard me. A “safe catch” canned tuna.
But before I go and brag about all the things SAFE CATCH in this safe spicy avocado tuna salad sushi bowl, I’m gonna just back it up.
Let’s talk about tuna salad in SUSHI bowl FORM!
First of all. We love sushi. I take that back. We ADORE sushi. And I’ve made it time and and time in again but there’s just one problem. My sushi rolling skills are not so great. I end up making a sushi roll turned into a plate of sushi ingredients all fallen out of a nori sheet. I know, I know. There is a certain skill for this. And I’ve had “lessons,” but still… I just don’t make pretty sushi rolls. And you know what? That’s okay, because I found a way to combine my love for sushi rolls and my love for avocado tuna salad into one EASY PEASY Healthy Deconstructed Sushi BOWL –> NO MESS! NO SKILLS needed. HALLELUJAH!
Okay, now that you know my not so secret horrible sushi rolling skills. Let’s talk about the Safe catch tuna in the tuna salad. Remember, it’s ALL THE THINGS and here’s WHY!
What’s in this tuna salad recipe?
Safe Catch is a new Paleo certified canned and pouched tuna, made especially for Elite athletes and pregnant women.
And I bet you are wondering HOW is it SAFE? It’s all about the PROCESS and how they test/source/package each fish, and each can.
- Safe Catch is the “only brand that tests every single tuna for mercury.”
- Safe Catch designed a “proprietary testing technology that allows them to detect the purity (mercury level) in each and every fish in seconds.”
- Safe Catch Elite is “tested to a limit 10x stricter than the FDA, and is the official tuna of the American Pregnancy Association.”
- Safe Catch Tuna has has “no precook processing in their tuna; which means more nutrients and amazing flavor. There are never any additives, fillers, or preservatives; only wild, pure tuna.”
You see what I’m saying? As a nutrition specialist, this is BIG NEWS! This means I can recommend a safe LOW MERCURY Omega 3 rich canned tuna meal for pregnant women, athletes, and kids. A quick meal packed with pure complete protein and amino acids for those growing bodies and muscles.
I highly recommend you check out Safe Catch site for a more in depth look at how they test and their story! I just love it.
That being said, we’re celebrating safe catch canned tuna with deconstructed sushi combined with a classic Summer/Spring salad topper, the tuna salad.
Lots of healthy fats, lots of protein, lots of bone supporting minerals, and more!
Yep, gluten free avocado tuna salad sushi bowls!
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Healthy Avocado Tuna Salad Sushi Bowls {Gluten Free, Low Mercury}
- Total Time: 11 minutes
- Yield: 2 1x
- Diet: Gluten Free
Description
Healthy Avocado Tuna Salad Sushi Bowls {Gluten Free}
Ingredients
- 5 oz canned wild caught canned tuna
- ½ ripe avocado (half in salad half sliced)
- ¼ cup chopped red onion
- ¼ tsp minced garlic
- ¼ tsp sea salt and black pepper
- 1–2 teaspoon gluten free chili sauce
- 2 tbsp paleo mayo or greek yogurt (to make extra creamy, but it’s optional}
- 1 tsp rice vinegar or balsamic vinegar
- 1 cup shredded cabbage (green)
- ½ cucumber (spiralized or julienned)
- ½ avocado sliced
- a few slices of red onion optional
- ¾ cup cooked white rice (or cauliflower rice for paleo option)
- Black Sesame seeds
- Seaweed chips to act as the croutons optional
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 1 tbsp tamari
- Chili sauce
Instructions
- First drain your canned tuna and place in a bowl. Mix in the avocado, onion, garlic, seasoning, optional mayo, vinegar, and chili sauce. Mix until creamy. Set aside.
- Next cut or spiralize your slice your cucumber. Best to deseed if you are spiralizing.
- Make sure your rice is cooked, or just use leftovers.
- Arrange your cabbage, cucumber, rice, and tuna on a large salad plate or bowl.
- Place sliced avocado on top and garnish with sesame seed.
- Add your optional dressing and/or extra chili sauce.
- So great with nori/seaweed chips as the scooper or just flaked on top.
- Mix it all up or serve as is!
- This serves 2 small salad bowls or one VERY large hungry sushi lover bowl
Notes
This serves 2 smaller salad bowls, but with the rice makes heartier and around 350 calories each.
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 1 min
- Category: salad
- Method: mix
- Cuisine: asian/american
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 bowl
- Calories: 354
- Sugar: 4.6 g
- Sodium: 518.6 g
- Fat: 17.8 g
- Saturated Fat: 2.5 g
- Carbohydrates: 33.3 g
- Fiber: 8.9 g
- Protein: 19.5 g
- Cholesterol: 26.4 mg
The yummy spicy goodness of a tuna roll combined with creamy avocado tuna salad. Then all you need is a little extra chili sauce on top.
…. if you so dare.
This recipe looks amazing! I love anything avacado so I am definitely going to give this a try. 🙂 Thanks for the great recipes!
-Brooke
www.beautydecorandmore.com
This recipe looks amazing! I love anything avacado so I am definitely going to give this a try. 🙂 Thanks for the great recipes!
thanks Brooke! Let me know if you do!
Your whole blog is so bright and beautiful, I’ve only just found it and am in love.
thank you friend! so good to connect with you!
Simple and healthy recipe,perfect looks,yummy recipe,thanks for this tip about tuna,its feast for in this weekend,happy fathers day..
It’s been a while since I’ve had that kind of tuna, but I HAVE to try this Paleo-certified Safe Catch brand to make these sushi bowls! Get into my face RIGHT NOW.
yes! you must!!!
Yummy recipe. ?My hubby will love this recipe?
wonderful recipe !
Thank you!
This is such a beautiful bowl!
Thank you so much friend
I’ve been really wanting to make sushi bowls and I don’t know why I haven’t yet lol now I have the perfect recipe to follow!! Every time I’m back in my college town, there’s this restaurant called Bento that I alwaysss get sushi bowls at and they’re amazing. Such a genius idea.
Omg I need a bento! Can we go back to college town together?
That sriracha drizzle is gorgeous! This looks like the perfect lunch or dinner for me!
thank you! the drizzle is key! haha
Absolutely gorgeous! I want this for breakfast 🙂 I need to check out this tuna!
Thank you friend. You gotta check out the tuna. i so love that is LOW mercury for all my pregnant clients and mama friends. <3
I think I could eat this every day for lunch and be very happy!
I kinda do. Hehe
I don’t love sushi (cold rice grosses me out) but I feel like I would LOVE this!
omg, THANK YOU for making this recipe!! i’m always wanting to incorporate tuna more often because it’s such a simple source of protein for a pescetarian, but get pretty bored with it sometimes. this looks so great. pinning for lunch next week!!
Yea!! Keep me posted
I had no idea that safe catch existed but it’s perfect! All the reasons I don’t eat canned tuna everyday banished! I would seriosuly eat this salad like 2-3 times a week, it’s all the best flavors and I love love love sushi!!
You’d love this Sam!!
This is fricken incredible! It’s like a deconstructed smoothie bowl which is AKA heaven!!!
the Hubs and I LOVE SUSHI! We are getting all you can eat on Friday! I also love making bowls with the leftovers when The Hubs makes homemade! I also just got a can of tuna from the store, so I gotta try this recipe!
You got a good husband! Can share that homemade goodness?
Safe tuna!! Yay!! And what a fab way to use it!
I so agree!
NO sushi here.. just not my thing but always beautiful!!! 🙂
Do you like tuna salad with avo versus mayo? Because that’s what this is but with sushi sides. I think you’d love the Tuna part! It’s so fit! Hehe
This looks deeelish! Pinned 🙂
Yay! let me know whatcha think!
Omg this looks amazing. I made my own poke bowl yesterday and it was like a giant sushi roll in a bowl and I wanted about 25145674 more.
Poke is on my list! I miss it! Had it a ton when we lived in hawaii
Great recipe. Looks almost too beautiful to eat LOL. Thanks for the tip about the tuna. xo Lauren
Haha face plant it anyway! So good
Super intrigued by this tuna brand! I’m stashing it away for my RD days when I get to start making meal recommendations to preggos, etc. I might have to try it myself in the meantime because I eat an absurd amount of tuna and never bought a special brand. Any idea which stores carry it?
Yes! Exactly. It’s so nice to be able to share with pregnant clients. Here’s the store locator https://safecatch.com/safe-catch-store-finder/
I could literally eat sushi every meal. My Whole Foods has a poke bowl bar… it’s trouble I should be making my own bowls like this and saving $11. We should definitely have this on the menu when we move to NZ and open a wine bar. 😉
Nz mission !! I’m on it
We LOVE sushi too, but we can’t get it easily where we live in the middle-of-nowhere. And since a bowl is the only way that I dare even TRY to prepare it myself, this sounds absolutely perfect! So many great flavors here!
Less mess and clean up = perfection right? No driving needed
I cannot make pretty sushi either so YAY for DEEEELICIOUS Deconstructed Sushi bowls like these! Your photos are gorgeous and love the sprinkle of black sesame seeds!
I bet you can! You got serious styling skills!
Looks amazing!!!
Let’s go to sushi!! Here in Reno, we have a TON of amazing all-you-can-eat sushi restaurants – it’s definitely a staple in our lives over here, ha! These bowls look absolutely fabulous…so clean and healthful and packed with flavor! I’m digging this for a weeknight meal, for sure!
So you’re saying we need to come visit for sushi right? Hehe
TUNA! An essential in the pantry <3
you know it!
I want this now! I haven’t seen this brand before. They sound amazing!
YOu’d love them! I’ll put you in touch
The hubs would love! Looks delish
I’ll deliver! ??
Um. yes. But I’m using cauliflower rice ;P LOVE YOU
or quinoa? 😉
Somehow you must make me this for lunch today! Actually, I have most of the ingredients to make it for myself lol! Thanks for the recipe!
I”ll start my commute!