This tasty avocado tuna salad with crunchy apple, toasted walnuts, celery, red onion, and dill proves that tuna salad doesn't have to be boring! The mayo is optional in this recipe - the mashed avocado will give it a creamy texture. Serve on top of greens, or enjoy it all by itself.
Ingredients
- ripe avocado: 1 piece
- flaked light tuna: 2 cans (5 ounce cans)
- red apple: 0.5 piece (chopped)
- red onion: 0.5 cup (chopped)
- celery: 0.5 cup (chopped)
- toasted walnuts: 0.25 cup (chopped)
- mayonnaise: 2 Tbsp (optional)
- pickle juice: 1 Tbsp
- dill weed: 1 tsp (dried)
- Dijon mustard: 0.5 tsp
- ground cumin: 0.25 tsp
- salt and pepper: (to taste)
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Stages of cooking
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Gather ingredients. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Cut avocado in half, scoop out the flesh into a large bowl, and mash avocado with the back of a fork or potato masher. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Add tuna, apple, onion, celery, toasted walnuts, mayonnaise, pickle juice, dill, Dijon mustard, cumin, salt, and pepper; mix well. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Enjoy! DOTDASH MEREDITH FOOD STUDIOS
