Meals with tuna and rice
Canned tuna and rice is one of the best pantry meals. It's quick, cheap, and actually filling.
Soy sauce, mayo, or sriracha are all the sauce you need.
Easy meal ideas
Tuna rice bowl
Drain tuna, season with soy sauce and sesame oil, serve over warm rice.
Tuna mayo rice bowl
Mix tuna with mayo and a little soy sauce, spoon over rice.
Tuna fried rice
Fry day-old rice with tuna, soy sauce, and a scrambled egg.
Spicy tuna rice
Mix tuna with sriracha and mayo, serve over warm rice with cucumber if you have it.
How to stretch these ingredients
- Oil-packed tuna tastes much better than water-packed
- Mayo + sriracha is the simplest tuna sauce
- Add a fried egg on top to make it more substantial
- Sesame oil drizzled over the bowl adds a lot of flavor
- Pickled vegetables on the side (even quick-pickled cucumber) improve everything