A stunning Thai red curry made in just a few minutes for a light easy meal. Gluten-free and paleo, this tuna Thai red curry is lightened up and served over simple coconut cauliflower rice to bring it all together!
*I received free samples from Bumble Bee Seafoods that are mentioned in this post. By posting this recipe I am entering a recipe contest sponsored by Bumble Bee Seafoods and am eligible to win prizes associated with the contest. I was not compensated for my time.*
Over the last few weeks, I have had this crazy obsession with Asian food. One Asian cuisine I hadn’t really delved into much was Thai. Which is sad since Thai = coconut. It also means red and green curries. I always lusted over beautiful red curry dishes I would see and always wanted to make my own. Stunning, spicy, creamy delight. I also think my dire want/need to make a Thai red curry was because I wanted to add red curry paste to my spice arsenal (since then I have also now added green curry paste!) Of course I could have gone my typical DIY route and made my own, but finding all the right chilis and flavors in a typical grocery was just a little too above and beyond (at least for right now). Instead, I just went with already jarred curry paste and it was fantastic nonetheless!
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I also wanted to make my first Thai red curry, easy, simple, and full of fresh veggies and packed with protein. I like to think of this as a “fancy” light meal you can share with a friend, and they don’t even have to know how easy it was to whip up. All you have to do is chop up some veggies, heat in a pan with the curry paste, spices, and a splash of coconut milk, crack open a can of tuna, and assemble it all around some cauliflower rice which was heated in some coconut milk. It comes together in a flash!
This meal is super healthy with the great benefits of tuna. Packed with protein, high in Selenium, Niacin, and vitamins B6 and B10, also free from saturated fat! Seafood is a wonderful healthy addition to any diet and always lends itself to a lighter dish compared to other animal proteins. To amp this healthy meal up further you have all the nutrients of the veggies, the wonderful healthy fats from the coconut milk, and it’s super low-carb with the addition of cauliflower rice instead of the typical white rice used in a curry dish.
Thai is a cuisine known for beautiful and exotic seafood dishes. With tons of color spicy and aromatic spices, there’s no other word to use than beautiful! I have an entire cookbook with every little detail about Thai cuisine. Very fascinating and one I do adore! Seafood of all kinds has always been a huge and important part of the Thai diet. With the simplicity they employ on their food, fresh and natural, colorful, and nutrient dense, no wonder Thai cuisine is so healthy.
I wish here in America, we had a more beautiful traditional cuisine. Sadly it’s either heavy and nutrient poor, or something that has 100 different “ingredients” in it. If Americans would realize how easy it can be to eat a beautiful healthy dish made with simple foods like fish, vegetables, and glorious spices, I really think more people would find the joy in cooking and eating healthy. Bumble Bee® is trying to make that happen by offering easy healthy seafood options so we all can add this wonderful healthy addition to our diets.
A lot of people seem to be scared of seafood, but with easy steps, like adding fresh and even canned varieties like Bumble Bee® to your diet at least 8-12 ounces (2-3 servings) a week can give you all the health benefits you need.* Plus, it’s super convenient and affordable for any family! Bumble Bee’s Prime Fillet® is also gluten and soy-free! No allergens but…well tuna 😉 (Canned fish: tuna, salmon, sardines, were a lifesaver while I was away at college this year!) Take a look for yourself! You can’t get much easier and healthier than this tuna Thai red curry I put together!
Tuna Thai Red Curry
- Curry:
- 1 Cup Snow Peas
- 8 Baby Corn Cobs
- 3 TB Chopped Scallions (plus more for topping)
- 1 Cup Sliced Bell Peppers (I used a mix of colors)
- 1 Cup Chopped Broccoli
- ¼ Cup Chopped Cilantro
- 1 TB Chopped Thai Basil
- 1 Tsp Minced Garlic
- ½ Tsp Ground Ginger
- 1 TB Authentic Red Curry Paste
- ¼ Cup Lite Culinary Coconut Milk
- Zest of 1 Lime
- 1 TB Lime Juice
- 1 Can Bumble Bee® Prime Fillet® Solid White Albacore in Water
- Cauliflower Rice:
- 2 Cups of Riced Cauliflower
- ¼ Cup Lite Culinary Coconut Milk
- In a large saute pan, combine all the chopped and prepped veggies with the spices, curry paste, and ¼ cup of coconut milk. Stir over medium heat for about 10 minutes until the veggies begin to soften.
- In another pan, simple heat the riced cauliflower and ¼ cup of coconut milk for 5 minutes, just until warm and the milk is absorbed.
- Next, you can add your can of tuna (mashed) to the vegetables still in the pan directly, or just add it, (room temperature) when you plate.
- To plate, first add the cauliflower rice, then tuna and curried veggies. Top with additional chopped scallion and you're ready to dig in!
There you have it! A perfect lunch for two or a light dinner full of easy nutrition, yet not skimping on flavor what-so-ever! No one can dispute that adding healthy meals using seafood is a difficult task now nor does it have to be boring and flavorless! This curry is slightly spicy with so much flavor from the fresh cilantro and basil (fresh herbs are a must!). If you thought canned fish was boring…I challenge you to make this and think again!
So tell me:
+ Do you like Thai Cuisine?
+ What’s your favorite seafood or fish?
*Recipe linking up for the week! Allergy Free Wednesdays, #RecipeOfTheWeek,#StrangeButGood, Gluten-Free Wednesdays, Real Food Friday, Gluten-Free Fridays, Tasty Tuesdays, Savoring Saturdays, Tasty Tuesdays, Lena’s Tasty Tuesdays!*
Source: http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/Metals/ucm393070.htm
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A great dinner idea for tonight, alongside your spicy spiralised sweet potato fries. Dinner sorted! Thanks 🙂
Haha, awesome! Enjoy!
Never would have thought to add tuna to my thai curries! Thanks for blowing my mind 🙂
Hahahaha, glad I could 😛
This looks SO fantatsic! I think I’ll need to make this for myself, soon. 😉 Thanks for the inspiration!
Yes! It’s one of my favorites!
This looks amazing and your photos are beautiful!
Thank you so much Ashley!
Sounds delicious, Rebecca! I love good Thai food. 🙂
Thank you! Always delish!
How delicious!
Thanks!
I love the idea of Cauliflowered Rice and Tuna is my one of my favourite fish, this is a cracking recipe #TastyTuesdays
Thanks!
Looks delicious, I don’t often eat thai food, so it would be a nice change to try your recipe #recipeoftheweek
Totally! It’s a fun easy way to get in some new flavors!
It looks like we both had red curry on our minds. Good thing is you can never get too much red curry. Thank you for sharing.
Never! So good, right?
YUM! I <3 Thai Red Curry! Don't think I've tried the green curry, though. Is one spicier than the other?
Red is spicier…at least it is to me! But both aren’t like crazy spicy either. It’s a nice spicy!
Yum! I love how bright and colorful this is!
Haha, me too 😉 Thanks Heather!
I have not attempted cauliflower rice yet but this looks like the perfect healthy and delicious meal 🙂
O you must!!! It’s the easiest thing and you’ll be kicking yourself for not making it sooner!
This looks sooo good, I love the idea of riced cauliflower!
Thanks!
This looks gorgeous, will have to give it a try, Cauliflower rice has been on my must try list for a while as well
You will love cauli-rice! The perfect addition to lighten up any meal!
Wow! This looks so healthy and delicious! Pinning for later 🙂
Thank you!
I love thai cuisine, and red curry is def my favorite type of curry!
It sure is a winner 😉
Wow this looks delicious.
Thanks!
I am gluten free so this got my attention right away, I am pinning this to try. I love Ahi or Sashimi Tuna but never have tried to use canned for a recipe such as this, looking forward to trying it. Thanks.
Gotta fancy up the canned tuna 😉 Haha! Thanks dear!
Tuna, red curry and all those veggies, your dish is making my mouth water, looks so delicious!
Thank you!!
Hi Rebecca,
This sounds absolutely delicious, filled with so much nutrition, with all the healthy veggies in the ingredients. I love all the color which makes my mouth water!
Yes! Thank you!
this looks really good and would be perfect for a night out with my best friend. Thanks for sharing. Stopping by from #SaturdaySharefest #SITSBlogging
Totally! A girls night!
Oooo this looks so colourful and delicious! I can’t wait to try it out! I’ve always wanted to make curry but it looks so intimidating but you make it sound so easy! Happy FF and thanks for sharing 🙂
It is easy! At least this one is! You’ll love it dear!
I love red curries. Thanks for a healthy lunch inspiration for next week.
Thank you! I hope you can make it!
Yes just feed me all of this an I will be a happy camper. I love how easy this is (using jarred curry and prepackaged tuna) but the flavors make this anything but usual! What a fantastic dish!
It is! Deceivingly “complicated”, but not! Wow your eyes and your taste buds at the same time 😉 Hahahahah!
Your Tuna Thai Red Curry looks amazing!
Thank you!
I don’t eat tuna anymore, but I absolutely love every other ingredient. It looks incredible and so flavorful! I typically have only seen it with tofu, looks amazing and bright and colorful!
Ah yes! You can make a thai curry with just about anything! Perfect without any fish too 😉
Tuna is one of my absolute favorites. It’s so versatile and packs a protein punch (which I often need.) Never thought to put it in a curry, tho. Can’t wait to try. Popped over from #FiestaFriday.
Totally! It’s such a light fish too! Goes well with any flavor!
What a cool idea for a curry! I love anything with coconut, basil, and cilantro too!
All good flavors!
Wow that looks lovely! Great idea to cook the cauliflower in coconut milk…I never would have thought of that but I bet it makes it especially tasty. This is a perfect dish for me since I am on the GAPS diet…although I have so far been trying to avoid spices in case they irritate my tummy.
Cauliflower is a blank slat for so many flavors!
I love thai curry, but would never have thought of using canned tuna in it. I love how simple and delicious this sounds 🙂
Right!? Amp up the tuna, amp up the curry!
This looks simple and delicious! My favorite recipe combination 😉
Pinning for later!
Haha, thank you!
Love the idea of using tuna in a curry!
I am like you– always feel like I should make my own. I’ve made really amazing green curry paste in the past, but honestly, its too much work, and it really only tastes super amazing the first day– after it’s been frozen, it’s just not the same. So, after our last trip to Thailand, my husband asked me to make his favorite– yellow curry. I bought the most expensive (hoping for the best) yellow curry paste, and boom, Thai yellow curry on the table in 25 minutes. Much better than the hours I would have spend gathering the ingredients, which I CAN buy being only a few hundred miles from Thailand, but I always end up forgetting something important– so many ingredients!
Haha, yea, sometimes buying is just easier and better worth our time! Either way…as long as I can get my curry some way…. 😉
Dishes like this are perfect for my weeknight meals! I have to try this recipe out.. sounds like an incredibly flavoursome red curry rendition.
Thank you! I’m sure you will love this!!
This looks super yummy and nice and healthy too. Your photography is great. Makes me want to dive in to the dish.
Sally @ Life Loving
Thank you so so so much 🙂
Can you tell I was waiting for my dinner to cook whilst I was reading your recipe? Ha ha!
Yum! I love Thai curries, but I’ve not tried making one with tuna. I actually do have a recipe for red curry sauce from scratch in an old cookbook of mine(Terrific Pacific) and it is very tasty. However, using the jarred red curry sauce is also very good and it takes about half the time.
Just put a scoop in and the flavor explodes in the dish! So easy!
Looks nice man.
Thanks!
What a wonderful use of nutritious veggies. I like the broccoli especially. Must try this recipe.
Broccoli is always good 😉 Thanks dear!
This looks nice! Good luck with the recipe competition 🙂
Thanks! (Not really a competition!)
Red Thai Curry is one of my absolute favorites. This dish looks awesome.
I think it’s one of my favorites now too! Thanks Diatta!
I LOVE Thai food! There’s nothing not to love about it. I love the heat and all the flavours. I don’t eat tuna, but Thai curries are definitely some of my favourite comfort foods.
I need more Thai food in my life now! I love the heat in this curry too, but it’s not too much, just right!
SOLD!!
This sounds SOO delicious. I am currently going dairy free, so everything with coconut milk sounds phenomenal to me, and I have been obsessed with curries for forever! Thank you so much for this great recipe I will be sure to try very soon!
I hope you make it!!! You’ll totally love it and everything with coconut milk is a winner, right? 😉
Yum. I love tuna but I’m always looking for new ways to use it. This looks excellent
Me too! It really is versatile when you think about it! Thanks dear!
All my favourite ingredients in one recipe and healthy too!
Of course!
Thai food is probably my absolute favorite take out, but I love making it at home, too!
I’ve never had take-out, but making it myself is super fun!
Love, love, love curry! This looks perfect!
Yes! Thanks Lauren!
I adore all Asian cuisine. What a creative dish!
Same here! Thank you!
Yes for anything curry, green or red, I don’t care, I love it all. Love all of the veggies in this recipe.
I can’t believe it took me so long to try out curry pastes! They’re amazing!
Love the taste of Thai foods!
Beautiful flavors!
We couldn’t agree more — there are too many ingredients out there! We love finding new products with only a few of the best, natural, and organic ingredients and using them to make great recipes like this one.
Yea! Thanks!
Can I just tell you that I have a serious OBSESSION with Bumble Bee Tuna… Specifically their Sun-Dried Tomato packed in Olive oil and their Jalapeño packed in Olive Oil! SO dang good, I MELT FOR IT!
That’s awesome.
This looks amazing Rebecca, so refreshing and flavoursome – yay for both of us sharing thai red curries today!!!
Thai Wednesday is going to be a thing now 😉
I love and adore Thai food–especially curry! <3 This recipe looks amazing! :D!
Salmon is my favorite fish ever! *-*
Yes!!! All the Thai curries! Thank you Farrah!
Salmon….oooo so perfect <3
This looks delicious Rebecca. Any tips to get my kids to give this new food a try?
Which part is new? Haha! Just give it to them…with chop sticks!
This looks like my kind of lunch! Love all of the veggies and tuna is such an easy go to.
I know!! Essential to have on hand!
You had me at Thai! Anything Thai, I love it! Thanks for sharing an easy dinner idea … with curry! 🙂
~jules
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Thai rocks! I can’t wait to delve deeper into the cuisine!
I love Thai Curry! A perfect combination of flavors and coconut milk is good in just about everything!
Coconut milk is awesome! Haha! Thank you Sheena!
DANG I need this red curry – can I have some please Rebecca?
I will invent an Internet delivery system where you can transfer food molecules in digitized format.
THEN I WILL HAVE MY CURRY!
Just give me 10 years to figure it out. Make than a 100 years.
That is how hard I will work for to get to try this recipe.
Or… wait, I could just try making it at hope. 😀
Thanks for this amazing recipe! 🙂
Hahahahaha 😉 You’re comment made my day! Thanks dear! CURRY ON!
CURRY ON! I like that! And why are there so many typos in my original comment?! Must be the over-excitement and shaking hands. That is how curry deficient I am. And in case you think I’m full of BS, I actually really do love curry. 😀 Grew up in Asia so there’s tons and tons of different kinds of curries around. I used to like green curry (also great) but red curry just kicks total a$$ because it’s far more intense. Having red curry is ALMOST as exciting as the impending zombie apocalypse.
Hahahahahaha! I love curries! I am really digging the Thai red (and green) curries right now, but Indian curry will always have my heart too!
My favorite seafood is salmon, obviously. 😉 I make an effort to eat it weekly for its health benefits. This recipe certainly does look flavor packed! I really need to try curry sometime. Because, let’s face it, canned tuna is a gift! 🙂
I think we should make this curry with canned salmon 😉
I had actually thought about making a curry…you never see tuna in them, do you? But….why not? I’m glad to have this recipe. I may have to make this soon. 🙂
I hope you do make it! I always see fish curries, but idk, I guess never with a can of tuna! So gotta be innovative and spice up that sad can!
I’m a big fan of curry but I’ve never had or cooked tuna curry, I actually never though about combining canned tuna with anything. Great idea!
Hahaha! Canned tuna is perfect for anything! It’s all about what you flavor it with that makes canned tuna so good!
I’ve been on a Thai kick lately too! Totally agree though, making a curry paste/seasoning mix can be a hassle so I buy the premade versions as well! I toss it all in the slowcooker and let it go all day! I like mixing it with Tuna though!
I’ve been putting the paste in just about everything! Haha!
Great minds think alike!!! 🙂
Thai is just amazing 😉
This looks incredible! I love tuna and curry in my dishes but I haven’t paired them together yet.. I think this might be the recipe that I try to do it with!
I think any fish would be a good curry protein addition! I hope you do give it a try! Thanks dear! XOXO
Aren’t you vegan? I must have missed something.
Nope I’m not! Never said I was vegan! I include chicken and fish in my diet! Happy and healthy!
I have never tried curry ever! I really have to soon!!!!
No curry!? Not even an Indian curry?! No way! You must make some! One of my favorite things!
Loving Thai food recently! Love all the ingredients and flavors 🙂
It’s such a lovely cuisine! I need to make more Thai dishes!
I’ve really enjoyed Thai food in the past but have always been intimidated to try to make it myself! I love tuna and I’m sure I would love this 🙂
Girl, make this! So not intimidating! You WILL love this 😉 XOXO
LOVE red Thai curry! Really want to try making this 🙂
I am a huge new fan now! So easy!!
Since I went vegetarian many years ago, tuna is probably one of my most missed “meats.” This looks and sounds delicious! Thankfully I can still make it for my husband and daughter!
I just love always having that easy “canned” option in the pantry when I don’t feel like cooking! And you can totally leave it out too and just have an all veggie curry!
i have made red and green curry with tofu but never with tuna. great concept.
Thanks!
Take out the tuna and I’m there! Love curry, but never go through the trouble to make it at home…I’m lazy with savory foods 😀 haha
Totally can take it out my vegan-fruity friend 😉
This is SOOOO easy! Make it!! I will make you a savory/spicy lover one day! I’m determined!
Yum!! Curries are so good. I LOVE that you added tuna. That works perfectly!
Yes! Curry is always good! I love how easy it was to add some tuna! Canned goodness 😉
Salmon is my favorite fish but I love tuna as well. My mom cooks with coconut milk a lot and I love the flavor it adds.
Salmon may always be the king of fish 😉 Nothing beats that buttery flavor!
I love using these coconut milks! The culinary types are so great for grains, curry, what ever!
Gorgeous indeed, and I love tuna, and I love green curry with tuna, I need to try it with red curry! I’m like you, I would have to make my own, so thank you for this!
Thanks dear! I’m obsessed with both curry pastes now!
This is such a good idea. I don’t know why I never think to add canned tuna to stirfrys like this!
Canned fish is always such an awesome option to know I have on hand! So easy and quick!