by Diana Rattray
Hard-boiled eggs and chopped pickles or relish are typical additions to a Southern-style tuna salad. This tuna salad makes a fabulous luncheon dish on a bed of greens with sliced tomatoes or avocado, or make sandwiches and serve them with potato chips or French fries. It’s a delicious, comforting tuna salad, perfect for lunch boxes and picnics. Use this same formula with canned white meat chicken or cooked leftover turkey or chicken.
For baby showers or parties, fill small soft rolls or slider buns for sandwiches, or make them with sliced bread and cut the sandwiches diagonally into quarters.
PrintSouthern-Style Tuna Salad
A Southern-style tuna salad includes chopped hard-boiled egg and some pickle relish. Choose dill relish or sweet pickle relish for flavor.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
- Category: Tuna, Sandwiches, Salads
- Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients
- 2 (5-ounce) cans tuna (in water)
- 2 stalks celery (finely chopped)
- 1 large egg (hard-boiled, chopped)
- 2 tablespoons dill relish or sweet pickle relish (or chopped dill pickle or bread and butter pickles)
- 4 tablespoons mayonnaise (or to taste)
- Optional: 1 to 2 tablespoon finely chopped red onion
- Kosher salt (to taste)
- Freshly ground black pepper (to taste)
Instructions
- Drain the tuna thoroughly.
- In a medium bowl, combine the tuna with the chopped celery, chopped egg, relish, and mayonnaise. Add the chopped red onion, if desired.
- Mix the tuna salad with a fork until well blended. Taste and season with salt and pepper.
- For a low carb or keto luncheon, mound the tuna salad on lettuce leaves or mixed greens and serve it along with some tomato and avocado slices. Or use the tuna salad as a sandwich filling in bread or sandwich buns.
