Recipe: Appetizing Tuna and White Bean Salad

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Tuna and White Bean Salad. Simple tuna and white bean salad, a classic combination and so easy to make! Some items that you will almost always find well stocked in our pantry are canned beans (white beans, garbanzo, kidney) and canned tuna packed in olive oil. Purists would insist on imported Italian canned tuna fish for the Tuscan classic, but we think plain old tuna from the supermarket is just fine, too.

Tuna and White Bean Salad This Tuna and White Bean salad is mayo-free, but big on flavor. So, I came up with this easy little Tuna and White Bean Salad to solve both of those problems. The time-honored Italian pairing of canned tuna and cannellini beans makes a super-simple, satisfying lunch. You can have Tuna and White Bean Salad using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Tuna and White Bean Salad

  1. It's 400 g of Cannellini Beans.
  2. It's 300 g of Albacore Tuna.
  3. It's 10 of Anchovies.
  4. It's 1 of Red Onion.
  5. You need 450 g of Jar Roasted Red & Yellow Peppers.
  6. You need 250 g of Cherry Tomatoes.
  7. It's 100 g of Black Olives.
  8. You need 50 g of Parsley.
  9. It's 1 tbsp of Garlic Puree.
  10. It's 2 tbsp of Olive Oil.
  11. You need 1 of Juice of Lemon.
  12. It's 1 tbsp of Balsamic Vinegar.
  13. Prepare of #MyCookbook.

Serve over salad greens, on grilled whole-wheat country bread or tucked in a whole-wheat pita pocket. StarKist's Tuna Creations® Lemon Pepper Tuna and White Bean Salad is protein-packed to get you through the day. Toss red pepper, onion and beans together. Break apart tuna and mix in to bean mixture.

Tuna and White Bean Salad instructions

  1. Chop onion and place in a bowl and add olive oil, balsamic and garlic purée..
  2. Chop peppers and slice tomatoes into quarters and olives into halves and add to mix..
  3. Add cannellini beans together with flaked tuna and finely sliced anchovies..
  4. Finally add juice of lemon and parsley and enjoy..

It's not every day that a salad wakes me from a dead sleep. But this morning, this one did. I use chunk white albacore tuna packed in water that flakes in large chunks rather than skinny bits like you might find in regular old tuna sandwiches. We would recommend canned tuna packed in olive oil. Water-packed tuna still works but you'll need to add a lot of olive oil to help it come together.