Homemade Tuna Salad - Super Easy & Delicious Lunch Recipe

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A simple salad can do the trick

We love tuna here in our household, may it be on a toast like many Spanish people eat for breakfast or prepped in a meal salad or spread on toast, they are all good options! When we were on our first Airbnb we discovered how cheap canned tuna is here. Of course, we needed to take some cans home in case of cravings for a homemade tuna salad (of any kind!). We also took some olive oil crackers with us as I remember eating a tapa somewhere with a similar cracker and I thought let's try it! So the day I prepped a nice tuna salad, the crackers would come in handy.

The Ingredients

I used to add onions to this kind of salad before but at some point, it became one of these products that my boyfriend really reacted badly to, so I started to become careful when using onions from that moment. But if you can enjoy some nice onions, I'd say add a bit of onion chopped nicely to enjoy it even more! Below you can see the ingredients I used:

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  • 3 cans of tuna in olive oil
  • pepper & salt
  • mayonnaise
  • mustard
  • olive oil toast
  • fresh parsley

To me, fresh parsley is VERY important. I try to use it in many recipes because I simply enjoy it so much. fresh parsley tastes great as well as looks nice on top of your dish. Unfortunately, this Airbnb only had a very bad knife and I was not able to cut the parsley, haha. It was truly impossible and I really wonder how they ever cut anything in that home without a decent knife. My solution was to use the scissors but that also meant the parsley wasn't cut as fine as I normally use it in dishes. Oh well, the life of a nomad I suppose!

The Process

This is actually the easiest process and doesn't really take many steps. You can do it the other way around if you prefer lol, whatever you fancy most! I always try to get the tuna out of the cans without too much olive oil because I don't want the salad to get too thin and me ending up having a dressing instead of salad. After that, I add pepper and salt, the mayonnaise, a teaspoon of mustard, and of course: parsley! Add as much parsley as you like, I'm never careful with it myself

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Mix it up, add more mayonnaise if desired, or maybe some more pepper and salt? It's your party when it's your salad so enjoy it to the max!

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The End Result

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Doesn't look bad at all, right? The tuna toast was the weirdest thing I ate in weeks. It was super greasy (could have known that lol) and it was also quite weird in taste. I thought I would enjoy the olive oil taste as they use it a lot here, but this one was a little bit of a fail. Not the salad though, it made up for the taste of the toast completely!

Do you ever make your own tuna salad? Any special twists in your recipe that you want to share?

Thanks for reading!



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Tuna ... It's one of those thing I always have at home. And also corn. I like to mix the tuna with corn kernels, mimosa of boiled eggs, mayonaise (mixed with yoghurt), spring onions and a lot of herbs (like your parsley). For me that's the perfect tuna salad!

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I personally agree that with eggs and (in a meal salad) corn is absolutely needed, but this is also one of these ingredients that I only use when I'm the only one eating it as my boyfriend reacts badly to eggs too. It defo made me eat less eggs since I excluded them. Instead I just fry an egg now to give into my cravings hehe.

But it's nice to have tuna at home as you can make quite a few sweet and quick meals/breakfast with it while only needing a few ingredients..

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Nice and easy recipe. Looks like a good Summer lunch. Thanks for sharing @thisismylife

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Yes, it's nice..Thanks for stopping by and have a good week ahead!

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Personally, I think that with tuna cans some diced onions are a must. Also when I was in the UK I saw that everybody was adding "sweet corn" to a tuna salad, haven't had this in a long time, it's early morning here and I got so sooo hungryyy :)))

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I agreed before I made the change, but now I'm used to it. Sweet corn is nice with tuna, I add it to a normal salad with veggies and then it's a must, never added it to the spreads for on toast though.. maybe I should try it :)

Thanks for stopping by!

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Good to see you added some parsley there!

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lol I rarely make any salad/spreads without it :) I just think something is missing when I can't add that

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Yeah, it's one of the things that I used to love. But since becoming a vegetarian, I hadn't tasted it in many years. Until that one day we found VEGETARIAN TUNA. First thing we did was making a Tuna salad. And it was delicious, but very expensive. So now we have it only on what we think is a special day. As a luxury treat for ourselves.

Oh, the usual tuna in olive oil I have at home. But I don't prep a salad with that, the dogs enjoy it better without mayonaise and mustard. Lol.

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Haha I think it's better for the dogs without these things as well :)

For now, I'm good and not going to go to any particular diet as I yet have to discover what I want honestly. So far most things we tried to buy were much higher in quality than in HU, so for now, just enjoying the cheap fruit and veggies :)

It's amazing what they can do nowadays with vegetarian replacements..

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This tuna salad look so good perfect on bread but also on arepas or similar,a good idea!❤️

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Thanks, I never had an arepa before but I will have a look one day to eat it or prep it myself. I read that that's a bit different than normal bread so I'm curious!

Thanks for stopping by, sorry that I'm behind on comments :)

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I really like your recipes! Southern, simple, and oh so delicious!

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