Tuna Salad is a traditional for a cause. It’s mild and recent, delightfully retro, and has made mid-day meals easy for many years. My model provides Greek yogurt for tanginess (and further protein!), dill pickles for crunch and zip, and grainy mustard for zing. Neglect ho-hum, gloopy, bland tuna salads. This one is vigorous and refreshing. You’ll like it!

Why You’ll Love This Straightforward Tuna Salad Recipe

• Simply the Proper Stability of Textures. With tuna salad, texture is equally necessary to the style. It is a dish we love for that distinction between meaty tuna, creamy dressing, crisp celery, and crunchy pickles. 
• A Basic, However Higher. Taste-wise, that is your traditional tuna salad recipe, however slightly bit elevated. It has the style you’re keen on (and anticipate), nevertheless it’s brighter, more energizing, and zippier. Greatest tuna salad ever? I believe so!
• Splendid for Meal Prep. The factor about meal prep lunches is that they’ll begin feeling repetitive and boring. Tuna salad has you lined right here as a result of similar to Greek Yogurt Hen Salad and Ham Salad, when you make it, you may serve it so many various methods—it by no means will get previous!

The way to Make Tuna Salad

The Elements

• Water-Packed Tuna. I all the time use strong, sustainably-caught tuna.
• Greek Yogurt. When you’re a purist, you need to use mayo, however I like the tangy taste (and added protein) of plain Greek yogurt. 
• Celery and Onion. Each of those add crisp-crunch, with celery including recent taste and onion delivering some pungent savoriness.
• Dill Pickles. Some recipes name for relish, however I desire chopped dill pickles as a result of additionally they add texture to the tuna salad.
• Lemon Juice. All the time freshly squeezed, which has a brighter taste than bottled.
• Mustard. Dijon and a grainy mustard, or simply use all Dijon. Mustard provides a pointy taste that makes the dressing sing and retains it from falling flat.
• Herbs. Recent parsley, tarragon, or dill.

The Instructions

1. Prep the Tuna. Drain it and flake it right into a bowl.

2. Add the Remaining Elements. All the things—into the bowl!

3. Stir. I like to make use of a fork.

4. End. Season to style and serve. ENJOY!

Recipe Variations

• Add Eggs. When you like your tuna salad with egg, fold a diced hard-boiled egg (or Air Fryer Arduous Boiled Eggs) into the salad with the remainder of the components.
• Swap the Pickles for Relish. When you desire relish to pickles, you may swap that in—or use each.
• Add Avocado. Diced avocado makes a delish addition to tuna salad, however be warned—it received’t work should you’re making this for meal prep as a result of the avocado will brown throughout storage.
• Strive Capers As an alternative of Pickles. They’re one other option to introduce some tangy, briny taste to tuna salad.
• Make It With Pasta. Do this Tuna Pasta Salad.

The way to Serve Tuna Salad

• In Lettuce Wraps. Tuck the tuna salad into Bibb or Boston lettuce for a low-carb lunch.
• Over Greens. Or simply put the lettuce on a plate and serve a scoop of tuna salad on high.
• With Bread. Add the tuna salad to toast, make it a sandwich, or strive a Tuna Soften.
• Crackers. Use the salad as a dip on your favourite crackers. 
• Tortillas or Pitas. Tuck the tuna into pita pockets or roll it right into a tortilla burrito-style.
• In Different Greens. Serve your salad inside halved purple bell peppers, tomatoes, or avocados. (Technically these are all fruits, I suppose, however particulars schmetails.)

Recipe Suggestions and Tips

• Make Certain Your Lettuce Is Dry. Whether or not you’re scooping the tuna into lettuce or serving it over a mattress of greens, you need to ensure there isn’t any leftover water droplets clinging to the leaves. Moist lettuce makes for messy lettuce wraps, and further liquid will water down the creamy dressing, making it much less wealthy.
• Chill Earlier than Serving. First, I believe tuna salad tastes higher chilled. Second, letting the salad relaxation within the fridge for 30 to 60 minutes offers the flavors slightly time to combine and mingle.
• Put Your Personal Spin on It. That is a kind of recipes the place everybody has their very own approach of constructing it. Be happy to make use of my recipe as a base for including your individual favourite mix-ins and tweaking it to your liking.
• Don’t Microwave It on the Workplace. Your co-workers will thanks.