Tuna Salad~how do you make yours?

I'm on a tuna salad kick and have made it at least once a week for the last month.

I start with 3 cans of chunk tuna canned in water (either Costco or TJ's) and add:

• chopped celery
• chopped dill pickles
• chopped red onion
• mayonnaise
• Dijon mustard
• brown deli mustard
• fresh dill
• lemon zest
• lemon juice
• salt & pepper

I'm a simple tuna salad kinda gal. Tuna, finely chopped egg, finely chopped celery, a little mustard, mayo, salt and pepper. Any kind of bread, really, but I prefer a seedy grain bread. To take it over the top, I like to toast the bread, spread tuna salad on it, put on some cheddar cheese and put it in the oven until the cheese melts.

I vary it, depending upon my mood. Tuna, lite mayo, celery, relish

Or

Tuna, mayo, celery, capers, chopped olives-green or black

Or

Tuna, olive oil, lemon juice, olives and capers

Mine sounds like the simplest (or maybe I'm just lazy, LOL) - I only add relish and mayo (usually light, or mayo made with avocado oil). I use only white albacore. As for bread, I prefer it on a seeded/whole grain bread, but really any bread will do as long as it's toasted! Crackers are OK too. Both my DDs like it as a tuna melt, but I don't care for that.

ETA: Darcy Collins and janeliz, I hope you both feel better soon!!

Solid white tuna mixed with Miracle Whip, topped with banana peppers, on toasted wheat bread.

The only restaurant near one of my summer jobs was a Little Caesar's Pizza shop. I tried everything on their menu, including a tuna sandwich that came with banana peppers. Loved it that way ever since.

Mustard - mustard? You can’t put mustard in tuna salad - I mean I know you CAN but this is an abomination- just so there’s no confusion - you’re doing it WRONG! 😉

Thank you! I have ibs so used to tummy troubles but this has been just terrible for too long

I always had just celery and mayo, but now I add finely diced jalapeño or hot yellow peppers. I love it that way!
I don’t like pickles or mustard in my tuna. DH eats it that way. I tried it. It wasn’t for me.

Onion, celery, chopped egg whites, salt, pepper, mayo and a tiny bit of Miracle Whip, a dash of mustard, salt and pepper.  I prefer a good, firm, white bread.  I use chunk tuna packed in water.

Sometimes for variety, I will add thawed frozen peas.

ETA, now I need to make some tomorrow!

Chopped apples, celery, mayo, pepper and sometimes a shake of curry powder. Prefer it on the dry side. Always on wheat toast.

We do 2 ways here.

1. Mayo version
Good white tuna
Finely diced celery
Lots of fresh ground black pepper
Real mayo
Fresh lemon zest
Lemon juice
Fresh dill

I start with tuna, add a bunch of black pepper breaking up tuna gently, adding in the celery and zest of one lemon, add mayo, finely chopped fresh dill (a lot!) and then add lemon juice and more mayo to get the consistency and zing I want. (We don’t like super “wet” mayonnaise-y tuna salad) we go for a lemon-dill taste over the tuna taste. We prefer on crackers, but often will toast bread and slather on.

2. Non-mayo version
Good tuna
Diced celery
Black pepper
Lemon olive oil or Mediterranean Herb olive oil
Lemon zest if one lemon
Kalamata olives chopped
A pinch of Greek oregano

Gently toss everything together in a bowl, and drizzle the oil in—again I don’t measure—it’s by taste! It isn’t supposed to be super oily, just enough to hold it together. Serve on crackers or toast.

I’ve even added white cannelli beans to this and scooped it into butter lettuce leaf “cups” for a wrap or a side dish salad version. It’s delicious!



And it’s sacrilegious to use pickle relish in tuna at our house! Lol…never ever do we do it (nor do we add it to egg salad!)

Albacore solid white Tuna in water, celery and onion.  Mixed with Mayo with celery salt, dill, salt, pepper and lemon.

On toasted white bread.

Sometimes I use the pampered chef dill spice mixture.

I don't like mayonnaise, so no tuna salad for me. But I found recipes using tuna with red peppers, chic peas, herbs and eat with crackers. It's really good!

I read a recipe blog where they loved Costco Planet (something) tuna. It's $15.99 for a six pack. We haven't bought it yet but may try some.

Kirkland tuna
Green onion
Celery
Celery salt
Pepper
Lemon juice
Mayonnaise

Let it get cold in the fridge and eat it on saltines.