Description
Creamy apple tuna salad celebrates fresh ingredients with a delightful crunch. Mediterranean-inspired flavors blend seamlessly, offering you a quick, nutritious meal perfect for lunch or light dinner.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 (5 oz) cans tuna (drained)
- 1 medium apple (chopped, Granny Smith or Honeycrisp)
- ¼ cup celery (chopped)
- ¼ cup mayonnaise
- 2 tbsps red onion (finely chopped, optional)
- 1 tbsps lemon juice
- 1 tbsps plain Greek yogurt (optional, for tangy touch)
- 2 tbsps chopped parsley or dill (optional, for garnish)
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- ¼ tsp salt (adjust to taste)
- ¼ tsp black pepper
Instructions
- Preparation: Drain tuna and break into soft flakes within a spacious mixing bowl, creating a delicate foundational texture.
- Vegetable Integration: Uniformly mix diced apple, celery, and red onion throughout the tuna, ensuring balanced ingredient distribution and complementary crunch.
- Dressing Creation: Whisk mayonnaise, Greek yogurt, Dijon mustard, lemon juice, salt, and black pepper in a separate container until smooth and well-combined.
- Flavor Fusion: Tenderly fold dressing into tuna mixture, coating ingredients thoroughly while preserving the fish’s delicate consistency and ensuring comprehensive flavor infusion.
- Seasoning Refinement: Adjust taste profile by carefully modulating salt, pepper, and lemon juice to achieve harmonious flavor balance.
- Resting Phase: Refrigerate salad for 20-30 minutes, allowing ingredients to merge and develop enhanced taste dimensions.
- Serving Versatility: Present salad creatively – nestled between bread slices, served atop crackers, spread over fresh greens, or elegantly stuffed within hollowed apple halves for visual intrigue.
- Final Embellishment: Optional herb garnish with fresh parsley or dill fronds to introduce herbal brightness and elevate aesthetic presentation.
Notes
- Flake Tuna Gently: Use a fork to break tuna into delicate, light flakes for a tender texture without mashing the fish.
- Balance Ingredient Crunch: Dice apple, celery, and onion uniformly to ensure each bite has a consistent crisp texture and balanced flavor.
- Adjust Dressing Consistency: Whisk mayonnaise and Greek yogurt carefully to create a smooth, creamy dressing that coats ingredients evenly without becoming too runny.
- Chill for Flavor Fusion: Refrigerate salad for 20-30 minutes to allow ingredients to marinate and develop a deeper, more harmonious taste profile.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Lunch, Snacks
- Method: Blending
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 3
- Calories: 280
- Sugar: 5g
- Sodium: 500mg
- Fat: 14g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 10g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 18g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 24g
- Cholesterol: 50mg