greek tuna fish starter

This greek tuna fish starter was the first ever recipe I posted on my dutch blog "gerechtenweb", back already in 2007. I rediscovered it recently, and decided to translate it in English also.

Ingredients:

• 200 gr tuna (fresh is the best, canned is also ok)
• 4 pickles
• about 15 black stoned olives (green is also good, but black tastes better)
• 1 shallot
• 4 vine tomatoes
• good olive oil
• soy sauce
• mustard
• fresh ginger root
• 100 grams of feta cheese in cubes
• cress for decoration (you can also use rucola salad or so)

Preparation:
Tuna mixture:

• Finely chop the tuna steak.
• Finely chop the pickles, the olives and the shallots and add them to the tuna.
• Let the tomatoes scorch in boiling water so that you can easily remove the skin.
• Remove the seeds and cut the flesh into small cubes.
• Add this to the mixture as well.

Dressing:

• Take 6 parts of olive oil and one part of soy sauce.
• Add a pinch of mustard.
• Grate a lot of ginger and add it.
• if you want, you can also use additional herbs with black pepper.
• Mix the dressing well.
• Add a bit of the dressing to the tuna mixture.
• Put both the tuna mixture and the dressing in the refrigerator for an hour.

  Serving:

• Fill a mold with the mixture and turn it on a plate.
• Garnish with feta cubes and a tuft of cress.
• Sprinkle with the remaining dressing (first mix the dressing well)

Please also have a look at these starter recipes to get some surprising inspiration;

• quail eggs tonnato
• delicious summer smoked mackerel salad
• smoked chicken with avocado
• smoked salmon blinis with an apple-sour cream topping