Tuna with Kebab Salad...I mean winter coleslaw salad.

I am trying to cut back a little bit during the week on what has become living a typical poor chef diet for the last few months.
Sometimes when you have been working with food all day (as enjoyable as that is) you get home and all you want is a sandwich. Bacon and sausage is quick and releases an instant comfort feeling that I assume women get from Chocolate.
Even calorifically worse is the desperate triple Decker cheese, ham, pickle onion and salad cream number where crunched up McCoys Beef crisps stick out from the thick layer of butter which accompanies each  topside layer of bread. Add another couple of packets of crisps and I don't need my ever tighter fitting jeans to tell me that this is not good. So this is day 2 of eating a lot more fruit and vegetables, drinking more water and herbal teas and even a bit of exercise is coming soon. I know this is not a weight loss blog so I do not want to go on about diets and entering a triathlon to get fit and other false promises that fade away by the weekend. However if I find a little recipe that I think you might like and is a little bit lower in the fat department then I would like to pass it on.
So tonight I had a bit of a craving for a Kebab. The buying of a Chicken Kebab cannot be too bad surely after all its Chicken Breast, Salad and a pitta bread. However a trip down Billy's Kebab shop would inevitably end up in The Grand Master Kebab Wizard Billy selling me chips and a 8 inch pizza and then if I had walked up to the takeaway shop for exercise then Billy would insist on me carbo loading for the walk home with a bag of takeaway chips !
So Billy's was not an option. I then thought how difficult is it to come up with an healthier version of the kebab and the answer is not very difficult at all.
I love salad and love the cabbage salad that accompanies most kebabs. The beautiful long green pickled chili that sits on top of the salad means you remember the beautiful dish the next day. Usually in the bathroom at about 6.30 am ! ha ha !
So for the salad I basically shredded a quarter of a small Red and White Cabbage. Added finely sliced Red Onion, Spring Onion, Shredded Radish and some slice pickled jalapeno for a little bit of heat. I then shredded some Endive salad leaves that that I cooked on the griddle first which gives them a different texture and were reduced in the supermarket when I was their ! ha ha !

Char grilled Endive. Nice with a drizzle of orange vinaigrette to !

Now mix the lot together. Lightly season and then I added a splash of Worcester sauce and a gulp of vinegar and combined it all together.

Starting to take shape !

It was at this point that the marketing menu writing Chef in me took over. And with the addition of a Tuna steak and a lovely fragrant Coriander and lime fat free Yogurt dressing it went from a Kebab to "Pan Seared Northumberland (??) Tuna on a bed of Winter Coleslaw with a Coriander and Lime Yogurt dressing...that's £9.50 please sir  " ha ha!
Dressing was just Fat Free Yogurt with a bunch of fresh coriander blitzed into it which gives it a vibrant green colour and the juice of 2 limes added. It was very refreshing on the pallet.
I really liked this salad and you can use it to accompany few different dishes.
Right that's 2 days down now take each hour as it comes and think healthy good food thoughts ! Well for a few days more at least !