These whole30 compliant citrus tuna ceviche bowls are loaded with fresh veggies, zucchini noodles and a creamy avocado dressing. They’re an easy, healthy and gluten free, no-cook summer meal!
Not much gets me more excited than food that is PRETTY.
When you make a recipe and it accidentally looks like a pile of RAINBOW colored gorgeousness inside a bowl? It makes me tingle ALL the way from my tippy toes to my TASTE BUDS.
Liiike, good FOR your body AND good for your eyeballs to look at. Double winning happening in this bowl of lean-mean-protein-packed-veggie-centric yumminess.
Full disclosure: I’ve been meaning to try this recipe for 2 Y-E-A-R-S. 365×2 days. And A LOT of hours (too lazy to calculate this. You understand.) It’s been sitting on my “must try to re-make” list since the hubs and I lived in Florida and I had something similar at a restaurant.
Except it had a lot of mayo and used spaghetti squash. Which is totally super-yum and delicious and all, but not appropriately suited to the fact that SUMMER vibes are happening. Having your oven set to 4 bazillion degrees and baking a squash for eleventy billion years (or an hour, same thing) is just not something that the doesn’t-like-melting-person inside of me is DOWN WITH.
You too? I knew it.
Crispy-crunchy fresh cucumber noodles don’t require ANY (!!!) cooking and achieve levels of greatness in the refreshing-cool-perfect-summer-eats food department of life that both you and I just wanna hang out in for the next few months.
One of the main show-stealers though? The tuna. I thought about doing seared ahi tuna steaks, but wanted to keep the no-oven-zone that we’re currently enjoying around for the ENTIRE meal.
Have you guys ever tried a ceviche recipe? It’s basically a mish mash of veggies and cubed, raw seafood that is not really raw BECAUSE you let it chill out in a little lime juice. The acid in the juice kinda “cooks” it AND leaves its tangy, zesty flavor profile sticking to each tender bite of juicy fish.
(MAJORLY bikini friendly) Summer food TO THE MAX yo’.
Besides the fact that you really don’t need to cook tuna to eat it without near-death-experiences happening in your real life, it’s great because it’s got flavor but not toooooo much. You know what I mean. Maybe.
If the protein-component of this bowl of veggieliciousness was hitting you in the face with a flavor whollop, then come time to add the CREAMIEST avocado dressing, your taste buds would be ULTRA CONFUSED and it could VERY LIKELY go from an 11 on the “very happy with this meal” scale to a -3 because TOO MUCH GOING ON INSIDE THE AREA OF YOUR FACE RIGHT NOW.
Taste bud confusion is a very real thing. And we do NOT want it.
I want you to be able to taste this dressings FLAVOR. I want every note of spicy-ginger, tangy lime juice and fresh, sweet orange juice to POP on your tongue in the most perfect combination of flavors that could happen inside a tiny food processor.
Don’t you love when the simplest of ingredients come together a home-run-knocked-it-outta-the-park kinda food way?
Simple food. Good food. Nourishing your body food.
All while lookin’ mighty fine served at yo’ dinner table 2-NIGHT.
I also shared the Tuna Ceviche Bowls Recipe on Food Fanatic, so be sure to check it out there!
FOR THIS RECIPE, I RECOMMEND:
WEIGHT WATCHERS POINTS PER SERVING: SMARTPOINTS: 9 POINTS+: 9. OLD POINTS: 8
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Want more whole30 summer meals?
Grilled Moroccan Chicken Bowls
Jerk Shrimp Stew with Cauliflower Rice
Mango Chicken with Coconut Cauliflower Rice
Tuna ceviche from around the web:
Tuna and Mango Ceviche – The Skinny Chick Can Bake
Ahi Tuna Ceviche with Sesame and Mint – Meatified
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Marina @ A Dancer's Live-It says
Ooooo I love ceviche bowls, and I LOVE tuna!! There’s something about colorful bowls that make eating it so much more fun! 😉 Gorgeous photos, Taylor!
Taylor Kiser says
SO agree! Rainbow food is the best food…and tuna is LIFE! Thanks lady! <3
Amy Stafford says
This is my kind of meal! I love the color, crunch and healthy ingredients.
Taylor Kiser says
Thanks chica – it’s totally up your ally!
Amanda @ Cookie Named Desire says
Seriously, this bowl has it all! It may have taken you two years to make it, but it was seriously worth the wait! Is it wrong that I want to have this for lunch like, every day for forever?
Taylor Kiser says
If that’s wrong then I don’t want to be right 😉 Haha! Thanks lady!
Danae @ Recipe Runner says
This is such a pretty bowl of food Taylor! I love all the colors and that tuna looks amazing!
Taylor Kiser says
Thanks girl! Happy weekend!
Megan @ Skinny Fitalicious says
This looks so refreshing! I’m always up for ceviche, sushi or basically any form of fish. Totally gonna have to try this one!
Taylor Kiser says
ME TOO! I could live on seafood! Thanks lady!
Cynthia | What A Girl Eats says
Gorgeous dish Taylor! You never fail to impress me with your delicious sounding food!
Taylor Kiser says
Ahhh, your comments are always too sweet! Thanks for the love and for sharing on FB!
Liz says
Thanks for the link love, Taylor! I love tuna ceviche and your bowl is GORGEOUS!
Taylor Kiser says
You are SO welcome Liz, and thank you!
Margaret Ann @ MAK and Her Cheese says
I’ve heard so many wonderful things about ceviche, so I can’t believe I’ve never tried it! This looks like a perfect place to start. Thanks for the recipe!
– MAK
Taylor Kiser says
Margaret, you have to try it! It’s so fresh and delicious! Thank you!
Denisse | Le Petit Eats says
This looks SOOOO good, Taylor! And pretty too! Need LOTS of yummy healthy recipes like this in my life right now with my wedding just around the corner- gotta slay in that dress! Seriously cannot wait to make this!!
Taylor Kiser says
AHhhhh Congrats on the upcoming wedding! SO exciting! And thanks!