Before you shake your head at my influencer-friendly ‘bliss bowl’ ... pause. I promise this is good. I love the heft of the yuzu and while I would never have thought it would go with bagel seasoning, it well and truly does. It’s a brilliant match of bright and buttery flavours.
INGREDIENTS
- 280 g (1½ cups) cooked
- brown rice
- 300 g sashimi-grade tuna
- 1 avocado, stoned and peeled
- 4 cups shredded Asian-style
- salad mix
- Bagel seasoning (below), to serve
DRESSING
- 60 ml (¼ cup) kewpie mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon yuzu kosho
- zest of 1 unwaxed lemon
OPTIONAL
- pickled ginger
- soy sauce
METHOD
- For the dressing, combine the ingredients in a bowl. If it seems a little thick, thin it out with a squeeze of lemon juice or more yuzu. Set aside.
- Warm the rice. Place it in serving bowls and top with tuna, some avocado and a small handful of Asian salad per serve. Drizzle over the yuzu kosho mayo, generously season with bagel seasoning and serve with pickled ginger and soy sauce on the side, if desired.
BAGEL SEASONING
MAKES 160g (1 cup)
This seasoning should not be reserved purely for bagels. Hear me out. The more I cook and the more I eat, the more I inherently understand it’s the seasoning that takes food from lacklustre to delicious. Sure, it’s the ingredients. Sure, it’s how you treat them. But proper seasoning is the glue that brings those elements together for all the eating goodness. Done well, it makes food taste more like itself and this is where bagel seasoning comes in. It heightens and complements flavours without overpowering them.
INGREDIENTS
- 3 tbsp poppy seeds
- 3 tbsp sesame seeds
- 2 tbsp dried minced garlic or garlic powder
- 2 tbsp dried minced onion
- 1/2 tbsp sea salt
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast flakes
METHOD
- Combine all the ingredients in a bowl, then pour into an airtight screw-top jar. Keeps for a few months.
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