Tuna Salad Recipes

A protein rich salad can be created with the addition of tuna. This page contains tuna salad recipes.

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Stretching Tuna for Tuna Salad

I don't know how many of you have noticed, but tuna now comes in 5 oz. cans, not 6. The price didn't go down either! That's a 17% decrease in the contents!

To stretch it further in sandwiches, I have a number of favorite add-ins: a chopped up hard-boiled egg, diced apples (I use Gala, because they're a little sweeter, and really cut the "fishy-ness" of tuna), celery, and even shredded carrots!

I add half a small-ish apple to one can of tuna, a big sprinkle of carrots, and/or one egg per 5 oz. can used. I also treat the celery differently than you'd think.

I *hate* soupy tuna, and celery is mostly water. I chop up the celery, then wrap it up tight in a clean cloth or paper towel, and squeeze it hard. This gets a lot of the water out so that, if I use only part of the tuna in a day, the next day's batch will be just like I like it.

By Pollylev

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Easy Tuna Salad

You can make an easy tuna salad by mixing store bought cole slaw with a can of tuna. (You can get good deals on cole slaw at Smart and Final, too.)

By Pam from L.A., CA

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Tuna Boats

Ingredients

2 cans drained tuna
4 hard boiled eggs (diced)
1/2-3/4 cup cubed Velveeta cheese (to your taste)
1/2 cup sliced olives (to taste)
salad dressing
1 pkg. hot dog buns

Directions

Mix above ingredients as tuna salad. May add pickles, celery, onion or whatever you like in tuna salad. Place mixture in hot dog buns. Wrap in foil and bake in oven 300 degrees F for 25-30 minutes to warm and melt cheese.

By Robin from Washington, IA

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Ramen Tuna Salad

Ingredients

Oriental Top Ramen Soup
Mayo or miracle whip
Can of Tuna
Salt and Pepper
Drizzle of Lemon (optional)

Directions

Cook your Ramen noodles to your liking. Drain the water. Then add your tuna and mayo (to your liking). Add the oriental seasoning packet. and mix together. Add a drizzle of lemon on top and its soooo good!

By Raquel From San Mateo, CA

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Thousand Island Tuna Salad

Ingredients

2 cans tuna in water, drained and flaked
1/2 cup Thousand Island dressing (Fat-Free preferred)
2 Tbsp. chopped green onion
4 cups torn mixed greens

Directions

Mix all ingredients except greens. Refrigerate. Spoon tuna mixture over greens. Makes 4 servings.

By Robin from Washington, IA

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Polly's Texan Tuna Salad

The deli near my office has a killer tuna salad sandwich, tastes fantastic and kills the wallet! So I decided to do some culinary detective work and figure out how to make it at home to help resist the temptation to buy that $6 sandwich. The last ingredient took me forever to figure out!

Ingredients

albacore tuna in water
2 parts lite mayo
1 part lite cream cheese (sometimes marked "neufchatel cheese")
a few splashes of lemon juice
dashes of garlic powder, onion powder and cayenne pepper (to taste; I like a lot of cayenne myself!)
few tablespoons minced green onion
few tablespoons finely diced jicama

Note: I don't believe in measuring ingredients for anything except baking but I'll try to give some approximations. Taste it as you go along and make it yours!)

Directions

The last ingredient, jicama, will never win a vegetable beauty contest. Also called Mexican potato and technically a legume, it looks more like an ugly turnip but has a light watery crunch like a water chestnut. In Texas, you can find it in many grocery stores that carry a variety of Mexican veggies and I would imagine that in other states you could at least find it in grocery stores with gourmet produce sections. It may take a little effort to find it, but it's worth it!

By txdesignerd from Tyler, TX

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Tuna-Seashell Salad

I love the pasta and the combination of veggies in this salad. I like this as a salad or as a cool lunch idea in the summer.

Ingredients:

2/3 cup sour cream
2/3 cup mayonnaise
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. dill weed
1 can chunk tuna
1 pkg. small shell macaroni, cooked and drained
1 cup diced cheese
1/2 cup chopped celery
1/4 cup chopped cucumber
1/4 cup sliced stuffed olives
1/4 cup pickle relish
1/4 cup sliced green onions
2 Tbsp. chopped green pepper

Directions:

In large bowl, combine sour cream, mayonnaise, salt, pepper and dill weed. Add remaining ingredients. Chill. Serve on lettuce leaves, if desired.

Servings: 6-8

Prep Time: 15-20 Minutes

Cooking Time: 0 Minutes

By Robin from Washington, IA

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Summer Tuna Salad

Neat variation on the usual tuna salad recipes.

Ingredients:

1 large crown summer squash
1/4 cup French salad dressing
1 head lettuce, torn
1 cup flaked tuna, chilled
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup cooked green beans, peas, or carrots, chilled
1 green pepper, minced
2 tomatoes, sliced
2 hard-cooked eggs, sliced

Directions:

Boil or steam squash in saucepan until tender. Scoop out seeds and center pulp. Drizzle with French salad dressing. Chill in refrigerator. Place squash on bed of lettuce on serving plate. Combine tuna, celery, beans and green pepper in bowl. Add enough French dressing to make of desired consistency, and mix well. Spoon into squash. Alternate tomato slices and egg slices in overlapping layer around edge. Garnish with parsley.

Servings: 4

Prep Time: 20 Minutes

By Robin from Washington, IA

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Cheap Tuna Fish Trick

When making tuna fish salad, use a can of the more expensive solid white tuna with a cheaper can of chunk light no one will notice the difference!

Of course you always buy when on sale.

By Syd

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Tuna Salad without Mayo

Anyone have recipes for tuna salad WITHOUT mayo? I like tuna salad, but would like to try different versions without the fat/calories of mayo.

Thank you to all!
Monnat96 from Pingree Grove, IL

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By jarenakjs12/28/2010

I used 2 tbsp sour cream, 1 tbsp ranch dressing, 1 tbsp relish, some spicy brown mustard and some hot pepper. It was great

Deli Tuna Salad Recipe

I am looking for "Deli Tuna Salad". I know that it has chopped celery, purple grapes and Tuna in it but I don't know what else.

kay from Clyde, TX

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By Goose_1308/17/2009

You can really put lots of things in tuna salad. I use two cans of tuna, onion, celery, pickles, mayo, and what really makes it, I think, is the garlic powder. Also salt and pepper. Just try it out a couple times, measuring vegetables by eye. Best eaten, I believe, on toasted sandwich with cheese.

Sweet Chicken and Tuna Salad Recipes

How do I make sweet chicken salad and sweet tuna salad?

By Carmen R. from Houston

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By grannygirl10/24/2009

Use sweet pickle relish in both. I use sweet pickle relish (to taste) boiled eggs (about 2) celery seed 1/2 teaspoon, Mayo to pull it all together and salt to taste. Good Luck and enjoy.