This Easy Tuna Salad Is Better Than The Rest

This tuna salad is pretty classic, a standard tuna salad, if you will—but in a good way. It's creamy and savory, with some crunchy bits for textural contrast from pickles, red onion, and celery. But one thing it is not is fussy or complicated, which is precisely why we love it for quick weekday lunches or no-cook dinners when it's entirely too hot to turn on the oven or you're entirely too tired for anything else. Serve this tuna salad by itself on lettuce, atop bread, or with crackers. It might be easy and quick—it does come together in minutes and calls for fewer than 10 ingredients—but it's bound to impress for its balance of flavors and textures.

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Ann Taylor Pittman

Ann Taylor Pittman

For 20 years, Ann Taylor Pittman built a career of creating healthy recipes at Cooking Light magazine, where she most recently served as Executive Editor. She is the recipient of two James Beard Foundation Awards: a feature writing award and a cookbook award. She is now a freelancer specializing in recipe development, writing, and video. Follow her on Instagram.

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Published on July 10, 2024

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