1 Recipe, 3 Healthy Styles for Your Lunch

Now more than ever, packing lunch to work is beneficial to our health. We can control the content and its portion. It also allows us to avoid the crowd by eating in. Knowing that cooking can be a chore, we've created a simple Tuna-Potato Patty that can transform into three different lunchboxes.

Watch this video for the recipe!

Serves: 4 patties
Preparation and cooking time: 30 minutes

INGREDIENTS

• 1 (150 g) canned tuna in olive oil
• 4 medium sized (300 g) potatoes
• 2 tbsp fried shallots
• 2 sprig spring onions, chopped
• 1 sprig coriander leaves, chopped
• 2 tsp white pepper
• 1 egg, whisked
• Sea salt to taste (~1 to 1 1/2 tsp)
• Oil for frying

METHOD

1. PREP Chop potatoes into cubes. Boil potatoes with 1 tsp salt in a pot of 500 ml water until soft. Meanwhile, chop spring onions and coriander leaves.
2. MASH POTATO: Transfer potato into a bowl and mash with a potato masher.
3. MAKE POTATO PATTY: Add tuna, shallots, spring onions, pepper, and salt into the bowl of potatoes. Mix well. Add whisk egg and mix again until sticky. With your hands, form the mixture into 4 compact patties.
4. BAKE PATTIES: Bake patties in the oven until golden brown
5. SERVE: 3 different ways to serve this up to make 3 different lunchboxes!
   1. Serve with multigrain rice and vegetables of choice
   2. Make a Tuna patty burger! Top it with your favourite ingredients such as pineapple, coleslaw or just fresh vegetables.
   3. Wrap it up! Create a Tuna patty tortilla wrap with fresh tomatoes, lettuce and more.

TIPS: Slice one large shallot and put it into a bowl of oil to microwave until brown. Remove oil and you’ll get crispy homemade shallots in a few minutes!

Sara Khong