Tuna Salad Recipe – This Tuna Salad recipe makes a delicious, flavorful recipe perfect for lunch or a light supper! Stuffed into an avocado, as a sandwich or served on a lettuce leaf!
Close to Bart’s love for chicken salad is his love for tuna salad. I can’t even begin to imagine how many vats of it I’ve made through the years. When I stopped and did the math of at least once per week for nearly 21 years we’re way over 1,000 and climbing.
Gosh, now I feel old.
And like I should have some tuna salad making award or something.
But then again, I guess I do have that. Bart loves it and that’s enough for me! (Awwww!)
And, with all those times of tuna salad making and tweaking the recipe a bit here and there, I can whip it up in no time flat with eyes closed if need be.
If truth be told though, tuna salad has always been one of my Mama’s favorites. Growing up, I think it was lunch for most of our Saturdays as a toasted sandwich, stuffed into a tomato, or just with crackers.
But lately, I can’t get enough of it stuffed into an avocado. The combination is just amazing. I can’t urge you enough to give it a try!
Here’s my favorite Tuna Salad Stuffed Avocado Recipe. I hope you love it as much as we do!
Tuna Salad Stuffed Avocado Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 (5-ounce) cans tuna, drained
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- ½ cup chopped celery
- 1 tablespoon sweet relish
- 1 teaspoon prepared yellow mustard
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
- 2 – 3 avocados, halved, pitted
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Combine tuna, mayonnaise, celery, relish, mustard, lemon juice, and curry powder in a medium bowl until well combined. Spoon into avocado halves. Salt and pepper to taste.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Enjoy!
Robyn xo
Originally published 2015.
We always add cold cooked pasta spirals to tuna salad! Makes it go further too
Growing up we pretty much followed this recipe but we always put diced apple in. Without the apple, my mother wouldn’t make it!
Delicious! My Mama loves it with apples, too!
Do you have any other easy tuna recipes?
Hi Robyn, Your recipe sounds great and is similar to mine except that I use finely chopped dill pickle instead of sweet relish and honey mustard instead of regular yellow mustard. The curry powder is a great idea for a little kick. I just did my shopping and the avocados were like rocks and ridiculously expensive. Next time they are on sale I will buy some just to try with your tuna recipe. Thanks for all of your delicious posts! Jennifer in Montreal
I hope you enjoy it, Jennifer! I bet the honey mustard is delicious, too! Don’t you hate it when avocados are like that! It is like a treasure hunt sometimes. xo
My dear Robyn! No onions??!! I thought we Southerners put onions and sugar in everything!! I’ll try it w/o.
You are so right! You can absolutely add a little bit of finely diced or even grated onion if you like. 🙂
This may be a dumb question but is the “1 t. mustard” prepared yellow mustard OR the powdered dried mustard?
Hi Elizabeth,
It is prepared yellow mustard. I hope you enjoy it!
I never thought about putting tuna into an avocado half but it sure sounds good!
It probably won’t affect the recipe, but all commercial tuna that I’ve been able to find now comes in 5-ounce, not 6-ounce, cans (4 ounces drained).
Thanks so much for catching that, Eileen! I’ve updated the recipe to include the most standard size.
Robyn, this looks so good….have to try stuffed in avocado. Lunch today!!!!! Pinned. Thanks.
I hope you love it, Mary! It’s my lunch today, too!
I always have to add chopped boiled eggs to my tuna salad. My daughter won’t eat it without them. This I will try. Hubby and daughter are tuna salad lovers.
Thank You.
Sounds delicious, Joann!