Easy Ideas to "Spruce Up" Tuna?

Spicy tuna bites (if you're craving sushi).

Chop up some cucumber slices. Mix your tuna with low-fat mayo, add a little bit of sesame oil & siracha.

Scoop onto cucumber bites & dip in low sodium soy sauce if you want. Has been satisfying my sushi cravings

Recently been eating it with dill relish (not the sweet stuff though), topped with a little crispy fried onions. I like it loaded with chopped salad veggies too, mixed with ranch salad dressing.

I like doing it with light mayo, buffalo sauce, onion, cilantro, lime juice, tomatoes, jalapenos, and pepper. Mix it all around and make it into a sandwich or if you are doing low carb you could eat them with cucumber slices / lettuce. wrap

I buy a 'rainbow' slaw pack from my local grocer - it has purple & green cabbage, carrots, beetroot, spinach and some mixed herbs (corriander/ parsley). I make my tuna mayo and then mix that into the slaw pack, with crumbled feta on top - it is fabulous! So filling (I have about 100g of the slaw mix), good for you and leaves me feeling satisfied.

simple tuna salad on a pita...capers, red onion, and olives with some slivered basil, maybe some diced tomato

Add 4 mashed hard boiled eggs, green pepper and onion chopped, grated light cheddar cheese to the tuna and mayo. Put in a bun and heat to melt cheese. They're called "Bumsteads" in my neck of the woods.

I really like to add chopped onion and chopped cucumber to mine, sometimes with avocado or dill.

Olive oil and whatever pre-mixed seasoning sounds good. I sometimes add pickles, celery, avocado. I don’t eat it on bread these days

I'd definitely add some diced veggies in there for the crunch, my go to is red onion and celery. Capers or olives for the salt, and seasoned with mustard, garlic powder, smoked paprika.
Lately I've been making tuna salad with basil, tomatoes and olive oil instead of mayo because they're in season for me

ninerbuff wrote: »

Eat it raw with some sweet vinegar rice and seaweed.

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I was just going to say raw lol. Raw cubed/diced bluefin or yellow tail with avocado, cilantro, diced cucumber and lime.

Never thought of sprucing up tuna...rather, we use tuna to spruce up other things. For example:

1 box mac 'n cheese
1 can tuna
1 can peas
1 can diced tomatoes (flavored or not)

Prep the mac as directed, stir in the rest. All your food groups covered in one pot, very colorful, very flavorful, and a complete meal in under 15 minutes. Boom.

Have you tried sweet potato and tuna patties? Easy to make and last in the fridge for a couple of days. Recipe easily found on search engine. Firm favourite in our family. Often have with veggie rice and peas or can be eaten cold with salad/as snack.

Ingredients
2 medium sweet potatoes (approx 600g/21oz)
½ red pepper, finely chopped
½ red onion, finely chopped
3 eggs
1 tsp of salt
½ tsp of black pepper
2 cans (280g) of tuna
1 small zucchini, grated
fresh chopped parsley
spray oil
Method
Pierce sweet potato with a fork and microwave for approx 8 mins till slightly soft. Cut in half, scoop out flesh and roughly mash in a large bowl (If you prefer, you can steam in a steamer until fork tender)
Preheat oven to 200c or 400f (gas mark 6)
While the sweet potato cools down, Spray a frying pan over a medium heat with some spray oil. Saute the onion to soften, stir in the red pepper and zucchini and just fry for couple of mins.
Add this to the sweet potato, along with the tuna, salt, pepper, eggs and fresh chopped parsley.
Combine all ingredients together.
Line a baking tray with some parchment paper, form the mixture into equal sized patties, place on tray and bake in the oven for approx 35 mins till edges are golden and patties are firm.
Serve with your choice of sides and a dipping sauce of your choice.

ehju0901 wrote: »

So I bought some tuna and mayo with some pita bread to have as an easy meal that's not too high in calories, but now it just sounds bland and I'm not in the mood for it.

I was thinking of going back to the store and buying some chipotle mayo or something to give it a little more flavor but I'm also curious on what you guys do? Looking for super little prep time ideas!

I always seem to add Olives to get the little salt and flavour I like. You can try adding fennel or a little honey or balsamic vinegar. Add your favorite hot pepper or chili If you like cottage cheese instead of mayo.

I add capers (0 calories!) to my tuna and I'm going to try some of the ideas on this discussion now!

A few months back, I made tuna-artichoke salad. Spinach, red bell pepper, canned Artichoke hearts, garlic, tuna, olive oil, and lemon juice. Very refreshing!