How to prepare tuna and onion salad

Salads are one of the most popular foods around the world. The unique variety of salads has made all people of any age interested in eating them.

On the other hand, many people eat salad as an appetizer and others as a light meal. As mentioned, salads are very diverse. One of the most nutritious and delicious of them is tuna and onion salad. In addition to its unique taste, this salad is very complete and can provide many nutrients to the body. One of the most important benefits of this salad is memory enhancement, long-term feeling of satiety, maintaining skin health and increasing hair strength. On the other hand, strengthening the body's immune system and improving concentration are other benefits of this salad. For this reason, in the following, we intend to introduce you to the preparation of tuna and onion salad.

Raw materials for preparing tuna and onion salad

You don't need a high level of cooking expertise to prepare tuna and onion salad. You only need to know the required raw materials and respect the proportion between their amounts. In this case, you can prepare a professional and very delicious salad in the shortest time. On the other hand, you can prepare tuna salad for a family meal or use it as an appetizer at parties. For example, if you want to prepare this salad for a group of 8 people, you need the following ingredients.

Tuna (2 pieces)

Chives (14 pieces)

Potatoes (4 pieces)

pickled cucumber (one glass)

peas (half cup)

corn (half cup)

Carrot (half cup)

dill and parsley (one glass)

Mayonnaise (optional)

Sour lemon juice (as needed)

Salt and black pepper (as needed)

Preparation steps of tuna and onion salad

To prepare tuna and onion salad, you must first boil the potatoes. When the potatoes are completely cooled, cut them into gems. Cook the corn, carrots and peas and drain. Then wash the scallions well and chop them evenly. The size of the scallions is completely up to your taste, but it is better to chop them according to the size of the other ingredients. Put the tuna in the water and let it boil for at least twenty minutes.

Next, let the tuna cool and then open the lid. Remove the tuna oil completely and put the tuna in a suitable container. Open the meat with a fork and add the potatoes to it. Wash the pickled cucumbers and finely chop them. Put the chopped pickles in the container and add the onions. Add cooked corn and peas to the ingredients. Chop the cooked carrots into small pieces and put them in the bowl.

In the next step of preparing the tuna and chives salad, finely chop the dill and parsley, add to the rest of the ingredients and finally add salt, black pepper and lemon juice. Mix the ingredients well and then add mayonnaise to it. Mix the ingredients well so that all the salad is covered with the sauce. Your salad is ready and you can serve it in the dish of your choice and enjoy it.

Key points when preparing tuna and chive salad

As mentioned, the amount of sauce used in preparing tuna and onion salad is completely tasteful. So if you want to prepare a diet salad, you can reduce the amount of dressing a lot.

You can use pure mayonnaise in tuna salad. But many people combine it with creamy yogurt and then add it to the salad. If you are interested in the taste of garlic, you can use shallot yogurt in making salad dressing.

Tuna and onion salad can be used as a useful and complete meal. So if you want to lose weight or have a light and complete meal, you can use tuna salad.

If you don't want to use carrots as gems, you can grate them after cooking.

It is better to let the salad rest in the refrigerator for about two hours before serving. This will make your salad taste uniform and wonderful.

Do not chop the tuna meat too much. It is better to separate the tuna meat from each other with the help of a fork and then use it.