Low-fat and tasty canned tuna is simply the “king” in preparing fish salads. It goes well not only with starchy potatoes, but vegetables, herbs, eggs, legumes and even cheese are delicious and harmonious with it. Today our next culinary topic is salad with canned tuna and cheese; we will have two recipes for you. So, let’s begin a chef’s “epic” on how to prepare delicious tuna-cheese salads at home.

The best tuna and cheese salad recipes

As we have already said, we have two recipes for you; having learned to cook both of them, you will be able to determine your favorite dish, which you will often serve at the table. But no matter what version of the dish comes to your heart, one thing we can say for sure is that you will never forget these salad recipes with canned tuna and cheese. Preparing these dishes is not difficult, and the ingredients are very simple, so don’t expect any difficulties, just enjoy the culinary process. First up is a layered salad with canned tuna and cheese, let's start cooking!

Layered tuna and cheese salad

It will take you about 40 minutes to prepare this dish at home - not that long. You can serve this simple and delicious “mix” to any family feast. The ingredients for preparing the dish are as follows:

• 1 jar of canned fish;
• 150-200 gr. any not too fatty cheese;
• 3 small fresh cucumbers;
• 4 chicken or 8 quail eggs;
• Mayonnaise at your discretion;
• 1 medium carrot.

We have told you what products are needed, now we will describe the preparation process step by step:

1. Boil eggs and carrots.
2. Take a grater and grate the entire piece of cheese on it.
3. Boiled eggs are peeled, the whites are separated from the yolks and grated, after which they are placed in a neat layer on a plate. A little mayonnaise is poured evenly on top.
4. Place the canned fish on top of the protein; the tuna should be without oil and mashed with a fork before laying out.
5. The cucumbers are grated and squeezed out; there is no need for cucumber juice in our dish; the finished cucumber shavings are placed on the fish. Sprinkle everything with salt and coat with mayonnaise.
6. We also grate the boiled carrots and place them on top of the cucumber chips.
7. Pour a layer of grated cheese onto the carrot layer and pour mayonnaise over everything.
8. The finishing layer is the yolks, grated on a fine grater.

This is where the cooking instructions end, all you have to do is put a tasty and beautiful dish on the table for your family and guests.

Colored salad with canned tuna and mozzarella cheese

Recipe number two was canned tuna and mozzarella cheese salad. This dish is called colored because of the abundance of “colors” that multi-colored ingredients provide. We will now talk about these color ingredients:

• Fresh or canned corn - 30 g;
• A sprig of cherry tomatoes;
• Canned fish - 150 gr;
• Salad “Mix” - 60 gr;
• Unagrande mozzarella cheese - 60 gr;
• Half a head of red onion;
• 30 gr. olive oil.

Here’s the recipe for preparing the dish, let’s move step by step:

1. Take a wide and deep plate, wash the “Mix” salad and tear it directly into the dish.
2. Thinly slice half a head of red onion into half rings and throw the leaves on the Mix.
3. Drain half the oil from the jar of fish, take out the fish pieces and mash them a little with a fork. Throw it into a plate.
4. It’s the turn of the mozzarella, we also throw it into the bowl.
5. The washed cherry tomatoes follow the cheese, and the remaining corn follows the tomatoes.
6. Seasoning salad with canned tuna
7. om and cheese with olive oil and a pinch of salt.

This tasty mixture is a more dietary variation of the dish, so even those who are on a diet can safely gobble up this “delicacy” on both cheeks.

Video: preparing canned tuna salad with cheese

Calories: Not specified
Cooking time: 60 min

Tuna is a well-known and beloved fish in American cooking. Recently, dishes with tuna have conquered European cuisine, reached Russian culinary recipes and are actively storming such a category as. Interest in tuna is explained by its affordable price, availability and beneficial properties.
We can talk endlessly about the benefits of this wonderful fish, but it’s better to go and prepare a tender and satisfying salad with canned tuna, egg and cheese. This quick salad will feed the whole family and bring maximum benefits at minimal cost. It’s easy to add a dietary twist to the dish by using canned food in its natural form rather than in oil. Tuna in oil is suitable for a denser and high-calorie meal.

If served effectively, the dish will not get lost on the festive table, complementing and diversifying its menu. The salad has a sharp taste thanks to the pickled cucumber, which is offset by the delicate creamy notes of cheese and butter. This treat is ideal as a snack to accompany alcohol. By enveloping the walls of the stomach with an oily film and preventing the rapid absorption of alcohol, the salad will prevent rapid and unwanted intoxication.

Step-by-step recipe with photos:

Peeled potatoes and carrots are poured with boiling water and boiled. Large vegetables are cut into two parts to speed up the cooking process.




A can of tuna is opened. Half of the juice is drained from the tuna. The fish is chopped into medium cubes.




The prepared vegetables are placed on a dish and cooled.




The skins of the pickled cucumbers are removed and the vegetables are cut into small squares.

Potatoes, carrots, and the whites of peeled and boiled eggs are crushed using a beet grater.




A layer of chopped onion and tuna covered with mayonnaise are poured into the salad bowl.




Grated potatoes coated with mayonnaise are added to the salad as a second layer.






The salad is dressed with chopped carrots and mayonnaise.




The next layer is finely chopped pickled cucumber and mayonnaise.




The dish is decorated with grated beetroot, melted cheese and shavings of butter. The cheese and butter are pre-frozen in the freezer.



Tuna salad is decorated with an airy layer of protein, mayonnaise and sliced ​​cucumber and lemon (optional). The finished dish is left for several hours to soak the ingredients and cool.

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Date of publication: November 20, 2017

Many products are now available that not everyone ate or could afford in Soviet times. But now many housewives want to surprise their families with new flavor combinations and compositions of dishes. For example, avocado quickly entered our lives. Of course, we continue to prepare Olivier, Mimosa, Bride, Caesar and other salads, but it’s time to add to our cookbook.

I discovered tuna quite recently and was surprised that it can be used in a variety of salads and appetizers. And this despite the fact that it contains many microelements and protein. It turns out that by mixing it with vegetables you can have a healthy dinner without any bad thoughts about heavy food and extra pounds.

And at the same time, you can prepare a very nutritious salad based on it by adding rice or eggs to it. I also saw that tuna is sold covered in oil and in its own juice. For example, in the original classic recipe for tuna salad, it comes in an oil filling. For dietary dinner options, it is better to purchase it in its own juice, it will not be so fatty.

Bright tuna salad

• Tuna salad with rice
• Tuna and bean salad
• Salad with tuna and tomatoes
• Tuna and corn salad

Salad with canned tuna: a very tasty recipe with photos

Let's start with the classic recipe for tuna salad, which has one main ingredient and acts as a salad, as an appetizer, and as a filling for sandwiches. Celery has been added to the recipe; I know that not everyone likes it, so you can remove it to suit your taste.

Ingredients:

• 2 cans of tuna
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• Half a stalk of celery
• Mayonnaise
• A little parsley.

This salad is served between two pieces of bread, like a sandwich.

Place the tuna on a plate and crush it a little with a fork to mix it with the oil.

Sprinkle with lemon juice.

Mix this mass with a couple of spoons of mayonnaise.

Add chopped celery stalk and parsley.

It is served on a piece of toasted bread.

Salad with canned tuna and cucumber and egg

A summer version of a salad with an abundance of vegetables, when they are all in the garden or sold fresh in stores. As a salad dressing, you can use different types of sauces, as well as season with olive oil and lemon juice and richer ones: mayonnaise or sour cream.

Ingredients:

• 1 bunch of lettuce leaves
• 2 small cucumbers
• Tomato
• 2 boiled eggs
• Can of tuna

Tear the lettuce leaves and place them in a salad bowl.

Chop the vegetables and eggs and place in a common bowl.

Add tuna from a jar.

Layered salad with tuna and avocado

Layered salads look very impressive and housewives love to serve them on the holiday table. The recipe for this salad includes all the ingredients that are very soft and juicy. By the way, I came across the same version of the salad, but also with the addition of an egg. It's not here, but you might want to add it. There is another twist in the filling that will perfectly highlight the taste of avocado.

There are a lot of salads with avocados in autumn and they usually require spices in the form of a mixture of peppers, oregano and Italian herbs, and are always dressed with vegetable oil, not mayonnaise.

For this type of salad, it is better to take tuna in its own juice.

Ingredients:

• 2 tomatoes
• 2 avocados
• 1 can of tuna
• Olive oil
• Juice of half a lemon

Peel and chop the avocado with a fork.

Peel the tomatoes and chop them.

Prepare the salad sauce: add the juice of half a lemon, oregano and salt to the olive oil.

Mix this mixture with mashed avocado.

To lay out the scraps beautifully, we will use a cake ring or a homemade mold.

1st row: avocado.

Row 2: tomatoes and salt.

3rd row: tuna.

Top with sauce made from butter and lemon juice.

This dish is very nutritious and due to the abundance of fatty acids in avocados, it does not require mayonnaise, and we use little oil.

Salad with canned tuna and egg and cheese

Cheese goes well with egg and tuna. Therefore, let's start preparing a salad with its contents, just add some vegetables for freshness.

Ingredients:

• Can of tuna
• 2 boiled carrots
• 2 eggs
• 100 g hard cheese
• 1 medium cucumber
• Mayonnaise and salt

We warm up the tuna.

Grind the cheese and carrots using a fine grater.

The cucumber needs to be peeled and chopped.

Place the prepared tuna on the egg whites.

Then carrots.

The final layer is cheese with mayonnaise and yolk.

A simple salad recipe with canned tuna and cucumber

With a minimum of time and effort, you can prepare yourself a snack or dinner with just two products: tuna and cucumber. By the way, to add zest to this recipe, you can chop several olives. To make the salad tender, the cucumber can be peeled.

Ingredients:

• 1 can of tuna in its own juice
• 3 small fresh cucumbers
• Bunch of fresh parsley
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 2 tbsp. olive oil
• Pepper

Chop all the vegetables and mix with mashed tuna in a salad bowl.

Acidify with lemon juice and brush with a spoon of olive oil.

This salad recipe probably doesn’t get any simpler and it takes five minutes to prepare.

An ideal dinner for women who watch their figure.

Tuna salad with rice

But for a nutritious lunch for the whole family, we also have our own recipe. Here we will mix tuna with rice.

You can take any rice, but unpolished rice is better, it has less starch, it cooks faster and is much more beneficial.

We will also use corn in this recipe, but if you are not a fan of sweet notes in dishes, then replace it with peas.

Ingredients:

• Can of corn (can be replaced with peas)
• Can of tuna
• 2 boiled eggs
• Half an onion
• Dill
• Glass of rice
• Mayonnaise

Soak the rice to remove unnecessary starch. Cook the rice until done.

When you have bitter onions, then pour boiling water over them.

Mix all the crushed products with 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise and garnish with parsley.

Tuna and bean salad

Another amazing combination is tuna and beans.

Take any beans, but not in tomato juice. More often they use white, but you can even mix both types and it will turn out very tasty and beautiful. Regular tomatoes can be replaced with cherry tomatoes. For this amount of salad you can take two large tomatoes.

Ingredients:

• Can of white beans
• Canned tuna
• 2 fresh cucumbers
• 4 small tomatoes
• 1 sweet bell pepper
• Olive oil

Peel the cucumbers and chop them.

Preparing the tomatoes.

We put cucumber, beans and tuna on them.

Peel the pepper, cut it and add it to the salad mixture in a container.

Lubricate with olive oil and spices.

Salad with tuna and tomatoes

Another recipe for a light and satisfying salad. Tomatoes add sourness to the tuna, which fits perfectly into the overall taste of the salad. You can scald them and remove the skin, or you can leave them as is, after all, fiber has never harmed anyone.

Ingredients:

• 1 cucumber
• 1 tomato
• 1 egg
• A little onion
• Can of tuna
• Olive oil
• Leaf lettuce

Chop the vegetables.