Healthy Tuna Salad

This quick and easy healthy tuna salad recipe only takes 15 minutes to make, and is protein packed! Enjoy.

Our Favorite Tuna Salad

From this healthy tuna salad to our delicious tuna egg salad to this avocado tuna salad, we’re your gals when it comes to healthy tuna salad recipes here on Fit Foodie Finds. And this truly is our go-to when it comes to easy peasy tuna salad.

Protein-packed: Looking for a high protein snack or lunch? This tuna salad is it!

Oh so versatile: Serve this tuna salad on a sammie, with crackers or on a lettuce wrap. The options are endless!

Quick & easy to make: From start to finish, you’ll be eating this tuna salad in 15 minutes flat.

Healthy Tuna Salad Ingredients

• Canned tuna
• Red onion
• Celery
• Greek yogurt
• Mayo
• Fresh lemon juice
• Dijon mustard
• Salt & pepper
• Paprika
• Fresh dill

How to Make Healthy Tuna Salad

This tuna salad is as easy as 1-2-3! Here’s what you’ll need to do:

1. Place the tuna, red onion, and celery into a large bowl and mix until well combined.
2. Add the Greek yogurt, mayo, lemon juice, mustard, salt, and pepper to the tuna and stir until everything is combined.
3. Top the tuna salad with paprika and fresh dill. Place the tuna salad in the refrigerator to chill or serve immediately on a sandwich or salad. ENJOY!

Easy Swaps for Tuna Salad

There are a few easy swaps we’re making in this healthy tuna salad that mean BIG things for flavor. Here’s what we did:

How to Serve Tuna Salad

This recipe could not be easier! All you need to do is place all your ingredients in a bowl and mix together until everything is combined evenly. Then, enjoy with a fork or your favorite scooping snack like:

Healthy Tuna Salad for Meal Prep

This recipe is easy enough to whip up at the office during lunch, but we love love love meal-prepping a large batch of this at the beginning of the week to have on hand for snacks, lunches and post-workout refuels.

If you’re planning to meal prep this tuna salad, we recommend double or tripling the recipe and adding a little fresh dill right before you serve.

This recipe will keep in your fridge for up to 5 days in an airtight container, just enough time to enjoy it throughout your work week ?

More of our Favorite…

Healthy Tuna Salads

• Avocado Tuna Salad
• Fiesta Tuna Salad
• Tuna Egg Salad
• Avocado Tuna Salad Sandwich

Print Rate

• 2 5-oz. cans tuna in water, strained
• ½ small red onion, finely diced (~⅓ cup)
• 1 large celery stalk, finely diced
• ⅓ cup 2% plain Greek yogurt
• 2 tablespoons mayo
• 1.5 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon ground pepper
• Pinch of paprika
• 1 tablespoon fresh dill, chopped

1. Place the tuna, red onion, and celery into a large bowl and mix until well combined.
2. Add the Greek yogurt, mayo, lemon juice, mustard, salt, and pepper to the tuna and stir until combined. Be sure the tuna is coated in sauce.
3. Top the tuna salad with paprika and fresh dill. Place the tuna salad in the refrigerator to chill or serve immediately on a sandwich or salad.

This recipe and photos were updated on 4/25/2022. Find the original recipe HERE.

Serving Size: 1 Calories: 196 Sugar: 2 Fat: 4 Carbohydrates: 6 Protein: 34 Author: Lee HershCategory: SnackMethod: No-BakeCuisine: American

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