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Healthy Apple Tuna Salad (with Greek yogurt!)
A light and nutritious tuna salad with crisp apples, crunchy nuts, and creamy Greek yogurt, perfect for a quick lunch or snack.
Ingredients
Canned Tuna
- 10 oz cans tuna
Vegetables and Nuts
- 0.33 cup celery, diced 1 small stalk
- 0.33 cup finely chopped onion
- 0.33 cup toasted pecans or walnuts, chopped
- 1 cup chopped sweet tart apple from 1 small Honeycrisp or Fuji
Dressing
- 0.33 cup plain Greek yogurt 2% or full fat
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 0.5 tbsp Dijon mustard whole grain preferred
- 0.5 tsp fine sea salt
Pepper
- to taste freshly ground pepper
Instructions
- Drain tuna and flake into a bowl.
- Add celery, onion, apple, and nuts; mix well.
- Whisk yogurt, oil, lemon juice, mustard, salt, and pepper; pour over tuna mixture.
- Mix until combined; adjust seasoning if needed.
- Serve with crackers, cucumber slices, or on whole grain bread. Store in refrigerator up to 3 days.
Notes
For extra moisture, add more yogurt or a drizzle of oil.