Dinner Deluxe With Ocean Naturals #shop

How often do eat tuna? If you are anything like me, it is not as often as you should. A few years ago the media got flooded with warnings about the mercury levels in tuna and so many of us backed out from eating it all together just because we had no time to do the research.

But Guess What?

Tuna is naturally delicious, full of a great nutrients and all you have to do is learn a little something about it. Seafood is an important part of a healthy diet and contains high-quality protein and Omega 3 fatty acids. A well-balanced diet that includes seafood can contribute to heart health and benefit children’s growth and development. It is a great healthy and convenient product that is very affordable and can be added to a healthy lifestyle easy with salads, sandwiches, pasta and so much more in just minutes. Ocean Naturals wild premium tuna is simply premium tuna with a dash of salt, packed in either olive oil or water – no fillers, additives or preservatives .

Ocean Naturals is a new name to the tuna market, but they stand out with their fresh approach to the process. The company starts by using only wild, responsibly caught Skipjack Tuna. They also strictly define what goes into each of their products by species so that light meat tuna isn’t a combination of mystery fish but rather – 100% Skipjack. In addition, Ocean Naturals requires that their Skipjack Tuna is 100% free–school caught without the use of FADs (Fish Aggregating Device) to help reduce the catch of non-targeted sea life.

OceanNaturals.com is a site full of information. There is a lot more information there than you have ever cared to know about canned fish, but if you spend a few minutes browsing through their pages, you will probably be more knowledgeable about tuna than most of the people you know.

I especially love the tool that tells me where my tuna came from – where it was caught and who was the ship captain. You have to agree it is pretty cool – check it out Where did my tuna come from?

How can you make healthy even healthier? Let me share a couple of recipes I have tried over the weekend with Ocean Naturals tuna. With your health in mind each of these healthy tuna recipes is gluten-free and absolutely delicious.

Gluten-Free Tune Quiché

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INGREDIENTS:

Vegetable Base:

• 1 carrot
• 1 mid-size zucchini
• 1/2 cup of gluten-free flour

Filling:

• 1 can of tuna
• 1 white onion
• 1 tomato
• Cheese to taste
• 3 eggs (if you are looking to substitute eggs, try the following: 1/4 cup of grapeseed oil, 1/2 cup of water, 1 Tablespoon of Hain’s Corn-free Baking Powder – as seen on Healthy Jasmine’s site)
• 3.5 oz of milk
• Salts, spices to taste

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees

Vegetable Base:

Shred zucchini and carrots as thin as you can and get rid of extra liquids. Add 1/2 cup of gluten-free flour and mix it well. This is your vegetable dough. Spread it across the pan and sides. I try to make the sides taller. Bake it for 25-20 minutes.

While waiting for the crust to get ready, let’s work on the filling.

Sautee onion to the golden color in olive oil. Mash tuna with a fork and mix it with an onion. Cut the cored tomato into slices and roast it just a bit. Cut cheese into cubes, whisk eggs and milk. Salt and pepper the mixture to taste. 

When the crust is ready, tuna and onion mixture on the bottom of the form, follow with tomatoes, add cheese and finish it with the egg mixture.

Put it into the oven for another 25-30 minutes – 320-350 degrees.

 Gluten Free Appetizer MIMOZA 

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INGREDIENTS:

• A can of Ocean Naturals tuna
• 1 Boiled potatoes
• 1 cooked carrot
• 2 cooked eggs
• Yogurt
• Salt, pepper, mustard 

 DIRECTIONS:

Shred the ingredients through the large-holes grater

Bottom layer – tuna, mashed with fork

Sauteed onion (cut thinly)

Follow with a layer of potato

Yogurt Sauce (Yogurt, salt, and mustard to taste)

Carrots

Yogurt Sauce (Yogurt, salt, and mustard to taste)

Egg white – cut into tiny cubes

Egg yellow crumbled

Add freshly ground red pepper (optional)

And here is something very special – try your luck every Tuesday at the  Ocean Naturals Tuna Tuesdays Facebook giveaway for your chance to win free product.

Don’t forget to visit Ocean Natural website to learn more about wild caught tuna and enter for your chance to win a free product at Ocean Naturals Facebook fan page. 

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