Seared Tuna & Caramelized Onion Rice Bowl

This recipe has been waiting and waiting to be posted! Don’t be intimidated… It’s so easy to make, and one of the most delicious dinner I’ve made in a while… Which means that you must try as well :). You could just as well use fresh salmon or another type of fish. The combination is what makes it so perfect!

Recipe / Recept 

Rice / Ris

1 mango / 1 mango

1 avocado / 1 avokado 

1/2 cucumber / 1/2 gurka 

1 large onion / 1 stor lök 

1/2 cup of water / 1.25 dl vatten

2 tbsp of honey / 2 msk honung

salt / salt

2 pieces of tuna (that can be eaten raw…) / 2 bitar tonfisk (som kan ätas råa

2 cloves of garlic / 2 vitlöksklyftor

Dressing / Dressing 

1 part olive oil / 1 del olivolja 

1 part soy sauce / 1 del soya 

a piece of fresh ginger / en bit färsk ingefära 

1. Start by boiling the rice according. / Börja med att koka riset.

2. Cut the cucumber and avocado in smaller pieces. Mix and set aside. / Skär gurkan och avokadon i mindre bitar. Blanda och ställ åt sidan.

3. Cut the mango in smaller pieces and set aside. / Skär mangon i mindre bitar och sätt åt sidan.

4. Cut the onion in half moons. / Skär löken i halvmånar.

5. Heat up a pan and add onion, stir until it’s soft. / Hetta upp en panna och lägg i löken. Rör tills den är mjuk.

6. Add water, honey and salt. / Lägg i vatten, honung och salt.

7. Turn the heat down. / Dra ner värmen.

8. Let simmer until all liquid is disappeared. / Låt puttra tills all vätska kokat bort.

9. Grate the ginger. / Riv ingefära.

10. Mix all ingredients to the dressing. / Blanda alla ingredienser till dressingen.

11. Press the garlic. / Pressa vitlöken.

12. Rub the tuna in garlic and salt, sear in butter on high heat for about 45 sec on each side. / Gnugga in vitlöken i tonfisken och salta. Stek på hög värme i smör ca 45 sek på varje sida.

13. Layer the bowl with rice, dressing, vegetables and top with slices of tuna and caramelized onion. / Lägg upp i en skål, ris underst och sen grönsaker och dressing. Toppa med skivad tonfisk och karamelliserad lök.

14. Done! / Klart!

3×3 Checkerboard Cookies – 3×3 Schackrutor

This post is a tribute to my Mom, no doubt. She loves these cookies, and is originally the master of making them as well. Although, I’ve always wanted to make them 3×3 instead of the original 2×2. What is important when making these cookies is that there’s no air between the rolls of dough, if there is, the cookies will crack and fall apart. In order to prevent that from happening, just make sure you squeeze the rolls together carefully. All in all, I think they turned out great, and they look much more “worked” than the original one’s, even though they are so simple. The cookies are prefect to freeze and bring out when you get that cookie craving!

Recipe / Recept

2 cups of flour / 5 dl mjöl

0.4 cups of sugar / 1 dl socker

7 ounces of butter / 200 g smör

2 tbsp of cacao powder / 2 msk kakao

1 tsp of vanilla extract / 1 tsk vaniljsocker

1. Preheat the oven to 390 F. / Sätt ugnen på 200 grader.

2. Put all ingredients in a food processor except the vanilla sugar and cacao powder . Split the dough in two. Mix the vanilla sugar in half, and the cacao powder into the other half. If the dough is very loose, put in some more flour, or put in the fridge for about an hour. / Lägg alla ingredienser i en mixer, utom kakaon och vanilj sockret. Dela degen i två och tillsätt vaniljsocker i den ena, och kakao i den andra. Om degen är väldigt lös och kladdig kan du antingen tillsätta mer mjöl, eller ställa den i kylen i ungefär en timme.

3. Split both the doughs in smaller, equally big pieces. Roll out in long strings all equally thick. You will need 4 of one dough and five of the other. Put one vanilla sting in the middle of a chocolate dough string, in the next layer, do the opposite, and the top layer the same as the bottom layer. / Dela båda degarna igen. Rulla ut dom i långa rullar, alla delar ska vara lika tjocka.Lägg sedan en vanilj deg i mitten av en choklad deg, och motsatt i nästa lager, och samma som understa lagret på det översta lagret.

4. Cut the cookies in about 1-2 cm slices, and bake in the oven for 5-7 min, when they get a tiny bit of color on the sides, take them out, let cool. / Skär kakorna i ca 1-2 cm skivor, grädda i ugnen i ca 5-7 min. När de fått liiite färg på sidorna, ta ut dom och låt dom svalna.

5. Done! / Klart!