10 Terrific Tuna Salad Recipes
If you're searching for a quick and healthy lunch, look no further than tuna salad. Easy to throw together and great cold, these tuna salad recipes can be prepped over the weekend and served for simple meals throughout the week. Serve a scoop with crackers, over salad greens, or tucked into bread with all your favorite sandwich toppings.
Mediterranean Tuna Salad
You can keep this Mediterranean-style tuna salad in the fridge for up to a week making it the perfect make-ahead lunch.
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Roast Vegetable Tuna Salad
This healthy tuna salad is chock-full of yummy veggies like butternut squash, red potatoes, green beans, and radishes.
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Tuna-Salad Pita
This tuna salad keeps in the fridge for up to one week. When you're ready to enjoy it for lunch, spread the tuna salad in pita pockets and add lettuce and tomato.
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Tuna, Olive, and Wheat Berry Salad
Sustainable Choice.Be sure to seek out a sustainable type of tuna. We like Wild Planet's wild albacore tuna in extra-virgin olive oil; a 5-ounce can, once drained, gives you the correct amount here.
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Simple Tuna Salad
Pair this classic tuna salad with whole-grain crackers or warm pita wedges, or serve as a filling for wraps and pita pockets.
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Garden Tuna Salad
As an alternative, omit the tomatoes and olives and mix about 3/4 cup rinsed and drained green seedless grapes with the tuna salad; garnish with more grapes and sprinkle with chopped salted almonds.
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Greek Tuna Salad
It's surprising how light and fresh this vinaigrette-dressed salad tastes, given that most of the ingredients come from the pantry. Here it's served as an entrée, but it also works as an appetizer or sandwich filling.
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Herby Potato, Green Bean, and Tuna Salad
Herby Potato, Green Bean, and Tuna Salad is chock full of lunchtime goodness. You can also add a hard-boiled egg on top for an extra protein boost.
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Bunk's Oregon Albacore Tuna Salad
The tuna melt at Bunk Sandwiches, in Portland, scores high marks for flavor—and all the ingredients except the condiments are local. Chef and co-owner Tommy Habetz puts the salad in ciabatta rolls spread with mayo and mustard, adds medium-sharp cheddar and sliced garlic dill pickles, and then grills the works in a panini press.
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White Bean-and-Tuna Salad
Stuff a whole wheat pita with this refreshing salad for a new way to enjoy tuna and beans.