Quick Mexican Tuna Salad {GF, DF}

Mexican Tuna Salad! Skip the heavy mayo and make this tuna salad with avocado instead. 10 ingredients and tons of flavor. A perfect quick lunch or weeknight dinner. Gluten Free and Dairy Free. Ready in 20 mins with 30g of protein per serving! A perfect low carb Cinco de Mayo recipe! 

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Tuna salad – love it or hate it? I personally love it and love having canned tuna on hand to make a quick and simple lunch or light dinner recipe. It’s just sooooo easy. You don’t need to do much of anything but you can still easily feed yourself something delicious. Sometimes it’s literally all that I’m craving. Out of everything that I could have for lunch, sometimes my taste buds  just call for canned tuna. It’s reliable, it’s consistent, it’s easy to work with.

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Canned tuna always makes for a hearty and filling lunch, if you as me. And normally I could just be convinced to mix canned tuna with mayo and eat that on a rice cracker with some thinly sliced tomatoes and freshly cracked black pepper + sea salt on top.

This time around though, I didn’t want the same old boring mayo heavy tuna salad. I wanted to create a lightened up, reinvigorated tuna salad. A tuna salad with lots of life and vibrancy.

Cue Bumble Bee^® Solid White Albacore which has been my tuna of choice for years. I mean we might be going back to middle school here. My traditional Russian family did not exactly stock canned tuna in the pantry. So it was my childhood (and still best) friend A, who introduced me to this protein packed product. We would either buy tuna subs or make tuna and mayo sandwiches at her house.

But tuna mayo is boring nowadays. Right? A dated recipe.

I wanted something new. Something fresh, zesty, with a kick.

Hello Mexican tuna salad. The star ingredient here is, you guessed it Bumble Bee^® Solid White Albacore (in water) packed full of lean protein, healthy fat and important vitamins and minerals and made with wild caught Albacore. To learn more about Bumble Bee tuna head here.

My go to classic Mexican themed ingredients included red pepper, black beans, lime, avocado, cilantro, red onions, jalapeno, and cumin, paprika and olive oil for seasoning.

Can you taste the flavor already? If you like your food spicy throw in a full jalapeno, I was certainly tempted to, but decided to hold back this time.

Everything in this recipe gets cubed, diced, chopped, mixed, stirred and thrown all together. No cooking necessary. Only one bowl and one cutting board needed. No fancy equipment and minimal clean up. You can easily make this in the tiniest of kitchen or even if there is an absence of a kitchen. Camping situation for example?  An added bonus is that none of the ingredients need to be refrigerated, so this can easily be made on the go, if you’re at the beach or hosting a picnic in the wilderness?

Basically you can make this Mexican tuna salad just about anywhere, is all I’m trying to say!

The final result is a super flavorful Mexican tuna salad which you can serve right in the hollowed out avocado shells themselves – come on it’s more fun that way. Those spices, that crunch, that smooth avocado, with the hearty tuna. Everything just blends together. The different textures with the contrasting flavors.

Bring with you to work for lunch or just eat as a simple no cook dinner. This dish comes together in 20 minutes and is the perfectly medley of flavors with high protein, low fat canned tuna.

So toss that tuna mayo sad sandwich aside and make this bright, vibrant and colorful feel good nutritious Mexican tuna salad instead. A perfect quick Cinco de Mayo recipe. Please share you favorite tuna salad recipes in the comments below!

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How to make Mexican tuna salad with avocado

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Mexican Tuna Salad with Avocado {GF, DF}

Prep Time

20 mins

Total Time

20 mins

 

Skip the heavy mayo and make lightened up Mexican tuna salad with avocado and veggies instead. 10 ingredients and tons of flavor. A perfect quick lunch or weeknight dinner. Gluten Free and Dairy Free

Course: Lunch

Cuisine: American, dairy-free, gluten free, Healthy

Servings: 4

Calories: 470 kcal

Author: Vicky Berman

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon lime juice
• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• 12 ounces Bumble Bee® Solid White Albacore Tuna
• 1/2 cup diced red pepper 1/2 red pepper
• 15 ounce can black beans rinsed and drained
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin
• 1 lime zested
• 2 avocados cubed
• 1/2 - 1 cup cilantro chopped
• 1/4 - 1/2 small red onion diced
• 1 - 2 teaspoons chopped jalapeno
• 1 teaspoon salt

Instructions

1. In a small bowl combine lime juice, olive oil and paprika. Mix until smooth.
2. In large bowl combine remaining ingredients and mix.
3. Top with dressing.

Nutrition Facts

Mexican Tuna Salad with Avocado {GF, DF}

Amount Per Serving

Calories 470 Calories from Fat 225

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 25g 38%

Saturated Fat 4g 20%

Cholesterol 15mg 5%

Sodium 1299mg 54%

Potassium 1047mg 30%

Total Carbohydrates 29g 10%

Dietary Fiber 15g 60%

Sugars 1g

Protein 33g 66%

Vitamin A 18.4%

Vitamin C 51.8%

Calcium 6.6%

Iron 23.1%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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