TUNA SALAD
Tuna Salad is easy to make and wonderful to make a sandwich or enjoy on crackers. We love it creamy and with boiled eggs.
If you love tuna recipes, you may also love this tuna macaroni salad. It’s easy to make and a great side dish!
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❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE
We love this tuna salad because it’s so easy to make and it’s so easy to enjoy! Sometimes, you just don’t feel like cooking, and you can make this up on a Sunday and have lunch in no time. We love to make a sandwich or have it on ritz crackers.
🍴KEY INGREDIENTS
- Tuna in water
- Celery
- Onion
- Sweet pickle relish or chopped pickles
- Mayonnaise
- Boiled Eggs
- Pepper
- Salt
- Smoked paprika (optional)
SWAPS
You can add spices you enjoy, like garlic, chives, etc. You can also use sweet or dill relish or pickles. We have also added liquid smoke too.
🍽️HOW TO MAKE
Nothing can be easier, the longest part of the process is boiling the eggs.
COOKING STEPS
Step 1
Boil your eggs and chop.
Step 2
Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Chill for several hours or can serve at room temperature. Makes great sandwiches.
Serve on bread or crackers and enjoy!
⭐TIP
We love to make this with Duke’s mayonnaise. You can use whatever you like or even Miracle Whip. This is also wonderful stuffed in a tomato during the summer or on a bed of lettuce.
🥣RECIPE SUGGESTIONS
If you love this tuna salad you may also love these delicious recipes. All are great on bread or crackers too.
❓FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
We always use Duke’s but you can use what works for you and your family.
Absolutely, it’s a very versatile recipe.
Yes, we love it with the smoked or the regular.
STORING
We store in the fridge and it will lat 3-4 days.
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SERVING SIZE
This makes about 3 cups of tuna salad, so 4-6 servings.
Tuna Salad
Ingredients
- 2 (5 ounccans tuna in water drained
- 1/4 cup celery finely chopped
- 1/4 onion finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons sweet pickle relish or chopped pickles
- 1/3 cup mayonnaise
- 2 eggs boiled, peeled and chopped
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika optional
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Chill for several hours or can serve at room temperature. Makes great sandwiches. Makes about 3 cups.
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This is like the recipe I grew up with. I prefer the addition of minced onion.
This is pretty much my recipe for tuna salad , yum! I do l like to add a chopped apple to this when I have one and sometimes shredded lettuce with a little more mayo if I’m serving more people and need to extend the portions. Love your site!
I suggest people read the entire recipe before making a comment!
I love all of your receipes but true southern tuna salad has hard boiled eggs in it. You will never convince me I’m wrong. I grew up in Tennessee with the best grandma cook ever! Even all her friends and my grand aunts made it that way!! Consider adding the eggs!
The recipe clearly says two eggs, boiled, peeled and chopped.
If you can find Famous Dave’s Signature Spicy Pickle Relish at your store, it’s amazing and really kicks everything that you normally use pickle relish for up at notch…