Hey lovelies, if you are trying to eat healthy especially postpartum as I am, and don’t have much time, then try this easiest, simplest, and healthiest Tuna Salad recipe at home. Feel free to comment below for any questions you may have and tell me you didn’t like it (I mean you would love it lol).
Ingredients:
- 3 Wild canned tunas OR regular frozen tuna
- 2 handfuls of Spring mix (lettuce, spinach, romaine lettuce mix, etc)
- 1 Red onion
- 2-3 tbsp Djorn mustard (or any other good quality mustard)
- 3-4 tbsp mayonnaise
- pinch of black pepper
- pinch of salt
- pinch of paprika
- Hot sauce (according to the taste)
- 2 tbsp olive oil
Preparations:
Take your can of tuna and drain all the liquid first. If the tuna was soaked in olive oil, I would not waste that and would use that as well, and in fact, I would highly recommend buying tuna which is soaked in olive oil or avocado oil rather than an inflammatory vegetable o. Mash it up with your hands really well so there are no thick pieces left as it will help later to mix all the ingredients really well. If you are buying frozen tuna from the store, steam it until it becomes softer and fully cooked. The trick is not to over-cook the frozen tuna as it becomes dry and the ingredients won’t mix well into it. Once your tuna is mixed quite well, start by adding the finely chopped red onion. The reason I mentioned red onions is that they taste amazing in tuna salad and are nutritious (higher amount of antioxidants) compared to white onions. After onions mix finely chopped spring mix salad. If you don’t have that, you can mix lettuce and spinach as well. Next mix mayonnaise well. Your Tuna should be creamy at that point then add mustard according to your taste or use my standard way. Then add salt, pepper, and paprika according to your own taste if you like. Last, add olive oil just to get in more healthy fats. Make sure you have salad-grade olive oil, not the cooking one which is usually blended with cheaper vegetable oil.
Serve it with the sourdough bread (almond sourdough bread is better in keto than wheat) if you would like to go gluten-free. I make my own almond bread as well and it goes really well with it. I’ll be sharing more 15-20 min recipes for the postpartum mommies. Let me know if you guys would like more postpartum meals plans ideas.
Stay happy and healthy!! Don’t forget to tell me how you liked it 🙂
