Guest Post: Paleo Spicy Tuna Rolls by Studio Snacks

Ingredients

• 4 (5 oz) cans of tuna (I used Wild Planet's Albacore Tuna, sea salt added)
• 1/3 cup mayo**
• 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
• 2 whole scallions
• 1/2 medium onion
• 1 tablespoon sriracha** or other chili paste
• 2 teaspoons raw honey (optional)
• 8 large eggs 2 avocados (ripe)
• 1 head green leaf lettuce
• 2 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds
• 3 small persian cucumbers
• 8 sheets of nori (unsalted roasted seaweed)
HOMEMADE MAYO
• 1 raw egg yolk
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon dijon mustard
• 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
• 2/3 cup avocado oil or walnut oil
• 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
• 2 teaspoons raw honey

Instructions

1. Combine all ingredients but the avocado oil in a large glass bowl. Having a towel under helps if you're doing this on your own (using your dominate hand to whisk and the other to pour oil). Whisk the ingredients while slowly SLOWLY pouring the avocado oil in. No rush. Keep at it until you achieve a light yellow and thickish mayo. Refer to Michelle's mayo video to see how it's done. Depending on the temperature of where you're at, your mayo might be runny if it's warm (like mine is above). No worries, just chill it in the fridge until cold, whisk again and it will stiffen up. Keep your mayo chilled in the fridge until ready to use.

2. Next up is preparing your egg sheets. Here's how you setup should look: Have a large fry pan at the ready (mine is 8" inches in diameter on the bottom, meaning my egg sheets will also be 8" in diameter) grease it with just the slightest bit of coconut oil, then wipe dry with a piece of paper towel. Have your 8 eggs, a small bowl and whisking utensil ready, we're going to crack them one by one as we go.
3. To begin, bring your pan to a medium heat, whisk your first egg and pour it in. Immediately swirl your egg around to cover the entire pan's bottom. If your egg isn't sticking and keeps following your movements, your pan is too cold. If your egg is freaking out and bubbling like crazy, your pan is too hot.
4. When the surface of your egg is nearly dry, time to flip. Release the sides with a silicone spatula, and push your pan up and down to make sure the whole sheet is loose and ready to go. To flip it, the best tool to use is your pinchin' fingers to grab. As soon as the sheet hits the other side, it only needs about 5 seconds before you can slide it off the pan and onto a plate. Repeat this process until you have 8 sheets.

5. To make the spicy tuna, chop your scallions finely and mince your onion. Combine this with the tuna (drained), mayo, sriracha, raw honey and sesame oil with a fork. If you got canned tuna that was unsalted, add 1/4 teaspoon fish sauce here. Taste this mixture until it's perfect to your tastes before you go further.
6. Prepare your persian cucumbers by splitting each into halves two times, so that one cucumber yields 8 even pieces. Lay out the sesame seeds, lettuce and avocados as shown above so everything's ready when you roll. Important but not shown is a small cup of water (we'll need it for sealing each roll).

7. Arrange in the order of: seaweed, egg, lettuce, tuna, 2 long cucumber pieces, 1/4 avocado (so half of an avocado half), 1/2 teaspoon sesame seeds. Make sure to orient your filling stuff to the bottom half so it's easier to contain when we roll. Take very important note that the egg has to be placed about half an inch below the top of the seaweed in the first step to allow room for sealing.

8. Roll the bottom quickly up to the top, until you reach that space we left on the top. Here, dab your fingers with a bit of water across the top (space shown in the photo on the left) and then roll over to seal. Sit the rolls down on the sealed side to keep it tight. Some fillings will try to escape from the sides sometimes, just use your finger to push them back into the roll! At this point, I like to keep all of my rolls for about 15 minutes in the fridge to give it time to stiffin up just a bit.

9. Cut each roll into 8 pieces, the pieces furthest to the left and right will be fairly janky and fall apart easily, I usually toss those in a separate tupperware to eat later on because they're just as delicious. But each roll's center should yield 6 handsome pieces otherwise. 8 rolls will yield you 48 handsome pieces... Enough to serve 4 hungry people with 12 pieces each or 8 kids with 6 pieces each.

10. Don't forget to sprinkle additional toasted sesame seeds on the cut pieces before you serve. I personally never eat these with any kind of dipping sauce, because that's the point of the spicy tuna.. it's super flavorful!

11. Enjoy!!

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