Tuna salad, unconventional. While we love many kinds of tuna salad, this classic version tops them all. The crispy celery and red onion give add zest and crunch, while mayonnaise and touch of mustard marry it all together. This creamy, crunchy tuna salad is the classic dish you've been craving.

Tuna salad is a light and fresh comfort food classic. Made with a few simple ingredients it's an easy, flavorful and healthy lunch or dinner recipe. Tuna salad starts with a blend of two main ingredients: tuna and mayonnaise. You can have Tuna salad, unconventional using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Tuna salad, unconventional

You need 15 ounces of canned tuna packed in spring water.
Prepare 1/2 cup of mayonnaise.
Prepare 1 of large cucumber.
Prepare 1 of medium golden delicious apple.
You need 1 tablespoons of lemon juice.
It's 1 pinch of salt.
You need 1/2 teaspoon of dill weed.
Prepare 1 tablespoons of chopped parsley for garnish.

The tuna used is usually pre-cooked, canned, and packaged in water or oil. Pickles, celery, relish, and onion are foremost among the ingredients that are often added. Southern tuna salad is basically tuna salad with the addition of relish and hard boiled eggs. This recipe already calls for relish to get a satisfying salty crunch, so all you'd have to add is chopped hardboiled.

Tuna salad, unconventional instructions

To a bowl add tuna. Wash, peel, and shave a cucumber into thin very thin "chips".
Wash, peel, core, and dice the apple. Add to the tuna along with the mayonnaise and lemon juice. Add dill weed..
Mix together well.
Add garnish and serve. Hope you enjoy!.

Chopped Tuna Salad is the perfect summer side dish. Filled with fresh crisp veggies the color of the rainbow, protein packed tuna, and tossed in a light and refreshing lemon vinaigrette. Our tuna was served on white bread, bound together with a couple knifefuls of mayonnaise, and we ate them happily while sitting at the kitchen counter, with our legs swinging, too short to touch the floor. After trying a lot of complicated tuna salad recipes and not liking any of them, I finally created. Tuna salad is lunchtime comfort food.