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Tuna Salad (1940)

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Drink, Salad

Tags: recipes for salad, recipes using apple, recipes using celery, recipes using green onion, recipes using hard-cooked egg, recipes using lemon juice, recipes using tuna, recipes with metric units, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings, refrigerated, very easy

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ATuna_Salad_%281940%29)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ATuna%20Salad%20%281940%29&oldid=4518185

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 1 can (6–9½­ oz / ~170–270 g) tuna
  • ¼ apple, finely chopped
  • ½ stalk celery, finely chopped
  • ¼ cup mayonnaise (low fat can work)
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • ½ ea. chopped green onion or ½ tsp dried chopped white or yellow onion
  • 1 hard boiled egg, chopped (or two hard boiled egg whites and a bit of oil olive oil to make up the difference)
  • Ground black pepper to taste
  • Paprika (optional)
  • Lettuce (optional)

Directions

  1. Drain and squeeze tuna dry, discarding liquid or reserving for some other use.
  2. Combine tuna, apple, celery, mayonnaise, lemon juice, green onion, egg, and pepper.
  3. Refrigerate 1 hour or more.
  4. Sprinkle with paprika and trim with lettuce, if desired.