Best 14 Tangy Tuna Recipes

TANGY TUNA SALAD

Steps:

• Whisk together mayonnaise, yogurt, and lemon zest and juice; season with salt and pepper. Stir in tuna, celery, and apple. Serve with bread, onion, cucumber, and sprouts.

VEGGIE-LOADED TANGY TUNA SALAD

Steps:

• Place flaked tuna in a medium bowl. Add veggies and mix well. Add mayo, honey mustard, relish, salt, and black pepper. Mix thoroughly. Season with more salt and black pepper, to taste, if you like. Mmmmmm!

TANGY MEDITERRANEAN TUNA SALAD

Steps:

• Combine the olives, garlic and capers in an electric food processor, and process to form a paste. With the motor still running, slowly add the olive oil through the feed tube and blend thoroughly. Then add the tuna and lemon juice, and continue processing until smooth.

TANGY TUNA MACARONI SALAD

Steps:

• Cook macaroni according to package direction; drain and rinse in cold water. In a serving bowl, combine the macaroni, celery, tuna, peas, parsley and olives. , In a small bowl, combine the remaining ingredients; add to tuna mixture and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight.

TANGY TUNA BUNWICHES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the tuna, mayonnaise, ketchup, lemon juice and Worcestershire sauce. Serve on buns with lettuce.

TANGY TOMATO TUNA CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook elbow macaroni in the boiling water, stirring occasionally until cooked through but firm to the bite, 8 minutes. Drain.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a 2 1/2-quart casserole dish.
• Mix macaroni, tomato sauce, tuna, cottage cheese, onion, cream cheese, sour cream, and salt together in the prepared casserole dish. Stir bread crumbs and butter together in a bowl; spread over tuna mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven until casserole is cooked through and bubbling, 35 to 40 minutes.

TANGY TUNA BLACK BEAN QUESADILLAS

Steps:

• Mix tuna, black beans, and sour cream together in a large bowl. Stir corn, buffalo wing sauce, garlic salt, and cumin into tuna mixture.
• Melt half the butter in a large skillet over medium heat; heat 1 tortilla in melted butter for 1 minute and flip. Spread half the tuna mixture over heated tortilla. Sprinkle with half the Mexican cheese; cover with another tortilla. Place a lid on the skillet and cook for 1 minute.
• Flip the quesadilla, cover, and cook until cheese is melted, 1 to 2 minutes. Repeat with remaining butter, tortillas, and filling. Slice quesadilla into eighths and serve a half quesadilla to each guest.

TANGY TUNA

Steps:

• Place tuna in a medium saucepan and pour water over it, then sprinkle with onion powder and garlic powder. Lay onion rings on top. Cover the pan and simmer about 5 minutes, or until cooked through.

TANGY TARRAGON TUNA SALAD

Steps:

• Boil eggs until cooked all the way through, 5 minutes or so.
• Drain water from tuna. Add to mixing bowl. Chop all ingredients to smaller than bite size. Mix with yogurt, sour cream (or mayonnaise), lemon juice and dill. Add salt and pepper to taste.
• *I generally make this recipe by sight, so you may want to add the ingredients slowly until you feel it looks even.

TANGY TUNA SALAD SANDWICHES

Steps:

• Combine the first 5 ingredients in a medium bowl.
• Spread 1/2 cup tuna salad over 4 bread slices.
• Top each slice with 1/2 cup arugula and 1 bread slice.

TANGY TUNA PATTIES

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients EXCEPT OATMEAL in a large bowl, and mix well.
• Mix in 1/4 cup oatmeal at a time, until mixture is a good texture to form into patties.
• It should still be moist, but not drippy.
• If you are not in a hurry, put the bowl in the refrigerator for 10 minutes to make the mixture easier to form into patties.
• Otherwise, go directly to next step.
• Cover broiler pan with foil and coat with cooking spray.
• Form mixture into a ball with your hands, and then flatten into a pattie and put on broiler pan.
• You can make whatever size you prefer, but make sure they are not very thick, or else the outside will burn before the inside is cooked.
• I usually end up with 9 patties per batch.
• Put pan in broiler and broil for about 8 minutes, or until top starts to brown.
• Take out the pan, flip the patties, and cook another 6 minutes or so, until other side browns.
• Remove from broiler and eat!

TANGY TUNA COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Lighly mix tuna, eggs, pickles and radishes.
• In a small bowl blend mustard, lemon juice, vinegar, salt, and cayenne. Gradually stir in salad oil with a fork until dressing is well blended. Mix dressing lightly with tuna mixture. If you wish, cover and chill 30 minute to 2 hours to blend flavors.
• Serve tuna mixture a top shredded lettuce in shells or seafood cocktail dishes. Sprinkle with parsley. Garnish each serving with a lemon wedge.
• Good served with thinly sliced pumpernickle bread and butter.

TOO TANGY TUNA SALAD FOR TWO

Steps:

• Place the tuna in a medium bowl and separate the large pieces with a fork. Add the next 6 ingredients and mix lightly. In a small bowl mix the remaining ingredients until smooth and add this to the tuna mixture. Serve on Boston lettuce.

TANGY TUNA DIP

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, mix cream cheese, lemon juice, lime juice, green onion, dill weed, salt and pepper. Blend until smooth. Mix in the tuna and olive oil. Cover and chill in the refrigerator approximately 25 minutes.