This One Pot Tumeric Tuna Rice with Chipotle Crema is a quick way to feed a crowd. It’s packed with flavour and full of good things like Turmeric and herbs and topped with egg to fill them up with protein. It has that little nod to Mexican food with it’s delicious chipotle crema!
Do you like Tuna…. from a can I mean?
I eat it a lot. It’s great with a salad for lunch but when I was a teenager we pretty much ate it every weekend. We had a favourite Saturday dish, and we took turns cooking it. I don’t know why we always made that particular dish but as a parent, I now understand it better. Mum, busy with a job and 4 daughters, probably just didn’t want to change her route around the supermarket. And kids will do the same thing over and over again without changing if you let them.
It was a rice dish that included a can of Tuna, spices ( nothing too fancy), and capsicums ( peppers) and pretty much anything else laying around. I always added peas while my older sister loved to add pineapple. This was not my favourite addition.
We ate huge plates, never tiring of it from week to week.
I recently wondered why I hadn’t made it, or eaten it in all the years I had a child and teenager in the house. He could have then eaten the leftovers and maybe even carried on a tradition.
It has changed a little of course. It wasn’t called One Pot Turmeric Tuna Rice with Chipotle Crema then.
This is such an easy recipe a child can make it as well as eat it.
I haven’t included chilli or anything too out there because you can feed this to anyone for any meal, breakfast lunch or dinner. I have included Turmeric though for its exotic warm flavour and beautiful colour. It’s good for you too, according to the evidence I read on Lyfe Botanicals
I ‘ve added a recipe for Chipotle Crema because I can’t live without it and this rice tastes like the bomb with it! Seriously do not skip it. It will make your weekend. Oh and add that soft-cooked egg for a heavenly combo too.
Looking for more 1 pot recipes?
- Chicken, Chickpeas and creamy spinach
- One pot chicken risoni
- One pot noodle soup
- Parmesan chicken bake
One Pot Turmeric Tuna Rice with Chipotle Crema
Ingredients
- 400 gm Jasmine rice 2 cups
- 200 gm onion chopped
- 2 cloves garlic crushed
- 150 gm red capsicum or green, diced
- 750 ml chicken stock 3 cups
- 150 gm peas frozen (1 cup)
- 250 gm tuna can drained
- 1 tablespoon Turmeric powdered or 1 inch grated piece of fresh
- 1 tablespoon cumin ground
- 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
- 1/4 cup parsley chopped
- 5 gm salt and pepper
- 60 ml olive oil
- 6 whole eggs
Chipotle Crema
- 2 tablespoon chipotle Chilli crushed
- 250 gm sour cream 1 cup
Instructions
- Mix the chipotle chilli with the sour cream and put into the fridge till later.
- Heat a deep fry pan that has a lid or wide bottomed pot . Add 2 tablespoons olive oil and add the onion, capsicum and garlic and saute on low till fragrant.
- Add the spices, rice and stock and stir. When the liquid comes up to the boil turn it down to the lowest setting and put the lid on. Leave for at least 10 minutes. The pot should not boil.
- Take off the lid add the tuna and the peas and stir. Check the rice. it should be cooked or almost cooked by now. Put the lid back on and leave for another 5 minutes.
- In the meantime heat a frypan and add the remaining oil. Cook the eggs till done the way you like them.
- Serve the rice with Chipotle Crema and the eggs.
- This makes a great breakfast or the leftovers are great taken to work the next day.
Notes
A friend of mine – a long time ago – told me about a similar recipe but after you’ve cooked the rice etc, you put it into a square of puff pastry and cook it – then when cooked you open the top end and add a dollop of sour cream! It is delicious and I haven’t made it for many years!
This looks really delicious Tonia, I just love the vibrant colour. I eat only albacore canned tuna but not often, they highly recommend to eat canned fish only once or twice a week.
It is a really easy recipe and made us remember our childhood..Thanks for sharing
Thanks for commenting!
You have taken your childhood meal and turned it into an interesting and flavorful dish.
Thanks karen. Thanks for visiting
You had me at chipotle creme – that sounds delicious!
Hey Shari!. I secretly love the crema more too
This looks so healthy and tasty! I love a go to healthy dish that makes you feel very satisfied
Yes its a keeper Jayne. Thanks for your comment
Love the fried egg on top Tania! I like tuna but hubby isn’t so keen on it so I’d make this for myself 😉
Oh I know how you feel it’s annoying eating alone
I tend to have a short attention span with tuna – too many lunches in the past involving the canned kind! – but I like the sound of adding eggs and chipotle cream. Yum.
I’m just never sick of it. Silly me
Looks like a fabulous recipe, Tania! I do like tuna in a can, but it can get a little boring. I love the idea of making it into a bit of a fancier dish with some more interesting flavours behind it, since tuna can get a little boring just on sandwiches and crackers for lunch!!
Hi Lisa. i never really get bored of tune. no sure what that says about me…..
I love me a can of tuna.
Its just so versatile, we do pasta, rice, all sorts of dishes. I loving this rice though, I won’t lie though you had me at the chipotle crema. Yum!
Yeppo Kim
It is the quickest meal in town
This sounds great! I love turmeric and am always looking for new recipes with it. Bet it would be great with poached chicken or prawns as well. I look forward to trying it! Thanks.
Hi Lauren. Yes this would be great with chicken or prawns, especially prawns!
I have no problem with canned tuna. Some actually are quite good. Your turmeric rice looks GREAT!
I would be a bit stuck without a can of tuna
Looks like my kind of one pot wonder BUT I have yet to find a chipotle chilli in Cairns. I have chipotle chilli powder, how much of that would I use or wouldn’t it do the same job?
Hi Anne. It has a bit of a different taste. You could do a srirachia chilli crema although that wouldn’t have the same smokey taste. Maybe I could send you some?
What an interesting dish – I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite like it before! The chipotle cream sounds like a nice addition.
Ha thanks Kari. Shows we were a bit wierd from childhood then!
I love the sound of this dish and the story behind it. My girls are just about old enough to start having cook offs I love that idea of that. I bought some fresh tumeric at the local markets this morning so am keen to try this. Thanks so much for sharing with YWF too. x
Hi Vicki, yep loads of fresh tummeric would be perfect