Cooling Lettuce Tuna Wraps

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Written By Joana Castro
Lettuce Tuna Wraps 
I came up with this recipe in a very hot summer day. It was so hot, the only thing I wanted to do was to drink water.  I was dreaming about ice creams (sometimes it's okay :P), but I know that even during hot summer day,s cooling food will harm digestion. So, I decided to use ingredients that help to cool down the body temperature while supporting digestion. Because at the end, everything is all about digestion!
Enjoy it as a light lunch or a light dinner. 

TCM Benefits

  • Clears overall body heat symptoms

  • Clears heat in the bladder

  • Diuretic

  • Promotes Lactation

  • Supplements and moves qi

  • Supplements body fluids

Nutricional Properties and Benefits

  • Vitamins: A, B6, C, D

  • Minerals: Calcium, Cobalamin, Iron, Iodine, Magnesium, Potassium, Selenium

  • Tuna contains healthy omega-3 essential fatty acids DHA and EPA

  • Contains chlorophyll (primarily stored in the outer leaves of lettuce)

  • Source of probiotics

 

TCM Flavour: Sweet, Bitter, Salty

Energetics/TCM Thermal Nature: Neutral to Cooling

Organ-Meridian: Liver, Stomach, Spleen, Kidneys, Liver.

Season: Summer, Late Summer

 

Total Time: 20 minutes

Serves: 2

 

Cuisine: Asian

Meal Type: Mains

Ingredients:

  • 1 onion

  • 2 large fresh tuna fillets

  • 1 tbsp mirin

  • 1 tbsp sake

  • 2 tbsp tamari

  • 1/2 tsp toasted sesame oil

  • 1 tbsp vinegar

  • 1 tbsp of lime or lemon juice 

  • Toasted Sesame seeds

  • sea salt

  • Sesame oil

  • Lettuce leaves

Directions:

  1. Wash the lettuce leaves and let them dry.

  2. Meanwhile, put the sesame oil in a large frying pan over high heat. Add the onion  and a little bit of sea salt, and fry for 2 minutes until they are golden. 

  3. Cut the tuna in small cubes and add to the pan. Add the sake, tamari, mirin, vinegar. Let it cook (aprox. 5 minutes) in low heat. 

  4. Turn of the heat and add the toasted sesame oil, lime/lemon juice. Stir everything and let it rest for 2 minutes.

  5. Fill each leaf with the mix.

  6. Top with a sprinkle of toasted sesame seeds.

Especially Good For

Anyone with general heat symptoms and heat in bladder: Restlessness, thirst, nervousness, micturition (urination) problems, burning sensation when urinating; sparse, dark urine. Also good for anyone lacking appetite due to summer heat. 

 

TIP

Feel free to use tofu or any other kind of white fish that you might have. Also works perfectly with seafood.

Joana Castro
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