Can Tuna be Sweet and Spicy?

Thanks to Smiley360, I recently got the chance to get the answer to that question!

Starkist has 8 varieties of tuna in their Single Serve pouches now: 

Chunk Light, Low Sodium Chunk Light, Albacore, Low Sodium Albacore,

Ready Made Chunk Light Salad, Ready Made Albacore Salad, 

Tuna Creations Zesty Lemon Pepper and

Tuna Creations Sweet & Spicy!

Earlier this week, I told you about my experiences with some of the tuna pouches, and today I'm going to share a recipe that uses their new Tuna Creations Sweet & Spicy pouch!

My inspiration came from a recipe I saw on a newsletter email from Hidden Valley, for Cold Peanut Noodles with Chicken. I figured chicken, tuna, sorta the same thing, so it should work right?

Right, but then I got to thinking that the pouches are so great for taking to work, or for a quick lunch, and I though, what if we altered the recipe to things you might have with you at work, and want to make it super quick for lunch?

Lightbulb!

SO here we go:

Sweet & Spicy Tuna Peanut Ramen

The ingredients:

And if you had the chance to cut these up the night before and bring them in a small container:

That would be chopped up celery and carrots, with garlic powder, onion powder and a touch of paprika.

The Directions:

1. Boil the ramen noodles in the amount of water needed in the microwave.

2. Drain half the water out ( I placed my in saucepan to get a better pix, but in theory you would mix in the bowl you microwaved them in.

3. Add your chopped ingredients you brought, the packet of dried spices from the ramen packet, the contents of the tuna pouch, and a dollop of peanut butter, which means about 1 to 2 tablespoons. I'd lean to 1 and then add more after the final tasting.

Now I made the mistake on the original recipe (when I took the pictures) of adding too much peanut butter and not enough water-hence there is more peanut butter than there should be in the picture, and not enough water. Sorry Charlie, I forgot to take a second pix on the second trial of the recipe....

4. Now Mix everything together, and you're done. You can put it in the fridge to cool if you want cold noodle version! Again, mine is a little too thick- less peanut butter and more water would be better. But the taste wasn't too bad at all! We had a taste testing at work, and even the guys said they wold eat it!

Overall, the Tuna Creations Sweet and Spicy pouch wasn't really to my liking (I prefer plain or lemon pepper tuna), but for cooking in a recipe, or over a salad, it could be a great addition.

Starkist has a great salad app to help you come up with a yummy salad! In fact, Starkist has a whole recipe section to help you find new recipes for tuna!

So what do you think? 

Would you give the recipe a whirl?

If you join the Starkist community you can get special coupons and sweepstakes too! They also share them on their Facebook and Twitter pages too!

So head on over and join up, then use your coupon to go try a Single Serve Pouch for yourself,  and answer the question if a tuna pouch is better than tuna from a can!

Disclosure / Disclaimer: I received this product, free of charge, from Starkist, via Smiley360, for review purposes on this blog. No other compensation, monetary or in kind, has been received or implied for this post. Nor was I told how to post about it.