Tuna Salad

This tuna salad recipe is made with the simplest ingredients to make a delicious sandwich or snack.

Every time my husband and I would go visit his family he would request his mom’s tuna salad. I personally am allergic to tuna and so I never made it for us but I finally asked for the recipe one day and decided to start trying to master it. As most family recipes I was told there wasn’t a recipe at all but she would try to write something down for me to go off of. I tried for years to perfect it and I finally think I nailed it. I now make this tuna every other week for my husband to take to work.

This simple salad is a perfect meal prep for busy weeks because it only takes a little time to whip up. When your ready to serve this up just eat it in a lettuce wrap or with crackers for a healthy lunch. My husband prefers to eat this on my homemade sandwich bread though which is delicious!

Tips and Tricks

• I suggest to use good quality tuna for this recipe. I make sure to use albacore tuna in water and make sure to drain the excess water really well.
• This is best with Duke’s mayonnaise but any mayonnaise would work.
• You can add onion or celery to this for some added flavor and crunch.
• I use whole gherkins and dice them myself because that is what my mother-in-law has always done but you could easily use sweet relish.
• My mother-in-law likes her tuna really sweet so she adds a tbsp or so of sugar to her tuna and my husband loves it.

Things You’ll Need

• Mixing Bowl ( I like to use these so I don’t dirty up more dishes. )
• Cutting Board
• Knife
• Measuring spoons
• Glass Tupperware

Ingredients

• Tuna
• Eggs
• Sweet Pickles
• Pickle Brine
• Mayonnaise

Step by Step Instructions

1. Hard boil eggs and set aside in an ice bath while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
2. Drain tuna and add to bowl.
3. Diced pickles fine as well as the eggs and add to bowl along with the mayo and pickle brine. Refrigerate.