Apple Tuna Salad
Elevate your lunch game with this Apple Tuna Salad. A delightful blend of tuna, apples, and lemon for a unique taste experience.
Looking for more tuna salad recipes? Try my Tuna Salad Sandwich or my Cranberry Potato Chip Tuna Salad.
Recipe Summary: Apple Tuna Salad
- ✅ Recipe Name: Apple Tuna Salad
- 🕒 Ready In: 10 minutes
- 👪 Serves: 4 (easy to scale)
- 🍽 Calories: 109 per serving
- 🥣 Main Ingredients: Canned tuna, mayo, dried dill, lemon juice, apples, celery
- 📖 Dietary Info: Meal prep friendly, healthy, kid-friendly, gluten-free, nut-free
- ⭐ Why You'll Love It:
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It's Sunday. The day where you can almost sense the looming black cloud ahead that is Monday. The start of another week. Oh no, here we go again.
Even though all the courses I'm taking are very interesting, the travelling, long days, and homework kind of put a damper on my day. Being a math major, I am not accustomed to reading so much for homework, so doing so many education classes is quite a challenge for me.
But one thing that is not a challenge is making delicious lunch recipes! I have been loving making Caesar Chicken Salad and Quinoa Tabbouleh to bring with me for lunch, but this Apple Tuna Salad may be my new favorite. It is so versatile! Have it with crackers, on a sandwich or just with a spoon. I promise, it will be an instant favorite!
Key Ingredients
- Canned tuna: The main ingredient! you can use chunk tuna or solid tuna, or a combination of the two! Just remember to break it up when mixing.
- Mayonnaise: This holds together all of the ingredients, and adds to the creamy taste. For a lighter taste, swap it out with Greek yogurt.
- Apple: Make sure you use crisp, tart apples to ensure you don't get a mushy tuna salad.
- Celery: To add an extra crunch to the salad.
- Lemon juice: Gives the tuna salad a light and refreshing taste, and keeps the apples fresh.
- Dried dill: Adds a fresh, earthy flavor to the tuna salad. Personally, I dill is my favorite spice to go in tuna salad, but you can replace it with dried parsley or chives if you like.
- Salt and pepper: To taste. This brings out the natural flavors of the other ingredients.
How To Make Apple Tuna Salad
Step 1: In a medium bowl, mix together the canned tuna, mayonnaise and lemon juice until fully combined.
Step 2: Mix in the apples, celery, dried dill, salt and pepper until fully combined.
Apple Tuna Salad Expert Tips
To prevent the apples from browning: toss the diced apples in a little extra fresh lemon juice before mixing into the tuna salad.
Storage: You can store the tuna salad in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days.
Do not freeze. Unfortunately, mayonnaise-based salads don't freeze well since the dressing will break down and separate upon thawing.
Flake the tuna well. Using a fork, make sure the tuna is flaked into small, uniform pieces so that the dressing coats every bite evenly.
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Apple Tuna Salad Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 (170g) cans tuna, drained
- ½ stalk celery thinly sliced
- ½ medium apple peeled, cored and cubed
- ¼ cup mayonnaise
- ½ teaspoon dried dill
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, mix together the tuna, mayonnaise and lemon juice until fully combined. Add the celery, apple and basil, and mix well. Add the salt and pepper to your liking and enjoy!
Notes
- Storage: Place the tuna salad in an airtight container and refrigerate for up to 5 days.
- Do not freeze! Freezing will cause the mayonnaise to break down and separate. It will also cause the apples and celery to get soggy.
- Use crisp apples. This will help add an extra crunch, and prevent the tuna salad from getting mushy.
- Break up the tuna evenly into small pieces, to ensure that the dressing coats the tuna evenly.
- To prevent the apples from browning, toss them in a little extra lemon juice before mixing into the rest of the tuna salad.
That is a genius sandwich, fish is brain food! Love the pairing with the apple. Feel the same about monday.
Monday - yuk!
Apple Tuna Salad - yum!
I just love such sandwiches. Easy and yummy! Tuna+ celery+apple is a nice combination.
Wouldn't have thought to put tuna and apples together! I have to try this now, just to satisfy my curiosity! (Ok, and the rumbling in my stomach, too:)
Tuna salad with apples is just yummy , thanks for sharing :).
Seems that we are at the same wave lenght, Cathleen, lemon is one of my favorite ingredients too.
Tasty sandwhich,love the combination of tuna and apples.
Apples and tuna...I like both, but didn't think of mixing them together in salads. The sandwich sure looks very inviting!
Cathleen, you're totally hilarious! I think I vaguely remember something about Gardner, and maybe I just figured out why I didn't bother to retain this info (seriously - what could be more brilliant than a perfectly created meal - c'mon Gardner)!! But seriously ... yum! I love adding apples and grapes or dried fruit to chicken salad, but it never occurred to me how good apples would be with tuna! Thanks for setting me straight! (Now ... if only you could work on setting Gardner straight, right!?!?)
This looks delicious, Cathleen! Tuna and apples – I love it, and I'd love this sandwich for lunch right about now 🙂
I love tuna salad but have never added apples to it. I bet they add a nice sweetness to the tuna and crunch. I usually add dried cranberries. Now I'll have to add some apple. Thanks for sharing.
Never thought to put apple with tuna! Will have to try this 🙂
Cathleen, looks like Gardiner's multiple intelligences is due for a revamp to include ability to make yummy food! This is a first for me - apples in tuna salad, sure sounds good :)Monday's a holiday here for me and I am heading for Tuesday blues....
Yes the black cloud of monday is upon me 🙁 However, this tuna salad would really hit the spot right about now. I love the addition of apples!
But how do you slice that thing?
Happy Sunday!