Tuna salad, unconventional. Tuna salad, unconventional Refreshing, simple, and delicious. Confession: I don't eat raw celery. Cooked celery is great, but raw celery makes my throat terribly itchy and inflamed.

Although unconventional, it is sure to please the more adventurous seafood lovers. Be sure to use fresh tuna for the very best flavor, although fresh frozen tuna will produce acceptable results. This is a standard raw tuna (poke) salad served in most Hawaiian homes. You can have Tuna salad, unconventional using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Tuna salad, unconventional

Prepare 15 ounces of canned tuna packed in spring water.
Prepare 1/2 cup of mayonnaise.
It's 1 of large cucumber.
It's 1 of medium golden delicious apple.
Prepare 1 tablespoons of lemon juice.
You need 1 pinch of salt.
It's 1/2 teaspoon of dill weed.
Prepare 1 tablespoons of chopped parsley for garnish.

Although unconventional, it is sure to please the more adventurous seafood lovers. Be sure to use fresh tuna for the very best flavor, although fresh frozen tuna will produce acceptable results. While tuna salad seems somewhat unconventional as a filling for Japanese sushi rolls, it is actually a popular filling for onigiri and musubi (Japanese rice balls). The tuna salad is typically on the bland side, with a simple mixture of canned tuna and mayonnaise.

Tuna salad, unconventional step by step

To a bowl add tuna. Wash, peel, and shave a cucumber into thin very thin "chips".
Wash, peel, core, and dice the apple. Add to the tuna along with the mayonnaise and lemon juice. Add dill weed..
Mix together well.
Add garnish and serve. Hope you enjoy!.

I suppose this seems a little bit like a summery recipe, but a tuna macaroni salad screams colder weather to me! Growing up, my mom made tuna casseroles, cheesy tuna pastas, and tuna pasta salads only when the weather got colder outside. So this is my type of cooler weather comfort food. 🙂 I really like chicken salad with curry powder (which is pretty common) so I tried curry powder in tuna salad once and it was just as good, though far less common. I will return for this sandwich and others while begging for large portions of the noodle salad. Tuna salad with grapes… my favorite unconventional way to reap the benefits of seafood!