I’ve never been a tuna salad person. I think we established that on my Garden Tuna Salad with Feta Post. But being home for lunch has me wanting to get creative and I always seem to have cans of tuna in the pantry. Nor sure why. Pair that with a crap load of veggies from the farm (I joined a CSA-learn more here) and you get things like this Spicy Garden Tuna.
I’m calling it “Garden” because I use fresh veggies from the the farm/garden and I’m calling it “Spicy” because… well… it’s spicy. Genius, I know. ;)
You can of course make it as spicy as you like, or don’t like. 
I was in the mood for something with bite so in addition to the hot peppers I had from the farm I added some green chili tabasco. It went awesome with the lime and cilantro. I also didn’t add any onion but I can see some diced red onion is here as a nice addition. Here’s what I did do…
- 1 can of tuna packed in water
- 3oz of fat free yogurt
- 1 carrot shredded
- 2 tomatoes diced
- 2 red or green peppers diced
- 2 hot peppers minced (I used a Serrano and a Green Chile)
- 1 bunch of fresh cilantro chopped
- 1/4 tsp kosher salt
- 1 tbsp Lime juice
- 1 tsp tabasco or too taste
This one is pretty easy. Just combine all the ingredients.
Here they are not combine…
and combined…
Once combined make a sandwhich. ;)
You got love simple recipes. Of course you had to do all the chopping and such but that’s not too too bad. ;) By the way my “secret” with the carrot is to simply use a potato peeler to get thin strips. It’s perfect when you want carrot in a salad like this without it being too hard or crunchy.
I served a cup of the salad on a new FlatOut Foldit
| Servings | Amt per Serving | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Entire Recipe | |||
| Calories | Fat | Fiber | WWPs | |
| 219 | 1g | 7g | old: 4 | new: 5 |
| Sugar | Sat Fat | Carbs | Protein | |
| 16g | 0g | 27g | 26g | |
Looks good … I’d probably have to cut down on the peppers, though. (Midwestern taste buds, you know.) ;)
This looks delish and very similar to how I make my tuna salads chock full of veggies! I haven’t tried adding shredded carrots to it or subbing yogurt in yet though.. That will be next!
Great way to get veggies in! I wondered what you were going to do for the mayo/salad dressing!!
Sounds and looks healthy and delicious. Anything spicy is a good thing, in my book!
21 grams carbs? How? Ate the stats including the bread? Sounds really yummy!
Yogurt is about 6, carrot is 6, 1 tomato is 5… it adds up! That’s why I don’t count carbs anymore. ;)
Thanks! This post inspired me on Sunday, to make a similar tuna-yogurt-veggie mix and make picnic sandwiches. My girlfriend loved them!
I have a picture on my blog and a link back to this page from there. Thanks again, I’ll try more of your recipes – the simpler ones that I can cook, that is.
very colorful, very appetizing..rainbow of color!
the carrot tip is off the chain…great secret!
what i love is that all the ingredients are in the pantry…