Happy Monday! How was your weekend? On Saturday I hit up one of my favorite studios for a endurance cycling class, followed by a girl’s brunch at Beatrix and a day full of shopping. It’s amazing how hungry and thirsty you get after a day of shopping and especially depressing when you realize Nordstrom Rack sells snacks but no water. #thirstisreal
Hmmm what else? Tony and I went to the Honne concert and had a blast jammin’ out to one of our favorite bands. If you haven’t listened to them, I highly recommend.
Now it’s Monday and I still haven’t gone grocery shopping. The upside is that I almost always have a can of Genova Seafood’s tuna in my cupboard and usually end up making quick pasta (we love this mac and cheese) or a giant tuna melt with tomatoes and avocado.
Personally I love Genova’s tuna the most because it’s packed in a little olive oil, sustainably caught MSC Certified and incredibly fresh tasting. You can even trace your can of tuna on their website.
Today I’m sharing one of my favorite new ways to make tuna salad: with Genova Yellowfin Tuna, crunchy honeycrisp apples, cranberries, greek yogurt, honey, dijon and black pepper.
Super easy to make, nutritious and packed with protein — what more could you want in a lunch?
What goes with tuna salad?
I love putting it on sweet potato ‘toast’ but you could also add it on top of apple slices or a slice of regular good old toast. You do you! Watch the video to see me walk you through how to make this beautiful apple tuna salad.
See how to make the apple tuna salad:
More healthy tuna recipes you’ll love:
Thai Tuna Patties with Cilantro Cabbage Slaw
Pesto Tuna Caprese Cucumber Bites
Farmer’s Market Spicy Tuna Wraps with Homemade Chipotle Greek Yogurt Ranch
Green Goddess Tuna Quinoa Salad
High-Protein Black Bean Avocado Tuna Salad Sandwiches
Honey Mustard Apple Tuna Salad
Ingredients
- 1 (4.5 ounce) can Genova Yellowfin Tuna, drained
- 1 apple, diced into bite sized pieces
- ¼ cup plain nonfat Greek Yogurt (or sub mayo)
- 1/2 tablespoon dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- ½ tablespoon honey
- 2 tablespoons dried cranberries or cherries
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon scallions
- Optional: sweet potato slices for toasting or apple slices or your favorite toast
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix together all the ingredients. Season with freshly ground black pepper to taste.
- Once ready to enjoy, toast sweet potato slices a few times until tender or serve on apple slices or regular toast. Top with scallions and extra black pepper. Enjoy! Serves 2.
Nutrition
37 comments
This was lunch today over some iceberg lettuce. Delicious! Toasted almonds or walnuts would be a nice addition to this recipe. Thank you!
Love that! Glad you enjoyed!
YUM this looks delicious to prep for lunches!! Love how quick making tuna is for a meal…and I’m obsessed with anything honey mustard! 🙂
YUM this looks delicious to prep for lunches!! Love how quick making tuna is for a meal…and I’m obsessed with anything honey mustard! 🙂
Such a great lunch! And yes – honey mustard for life.
I love the idea of putting tuna salad on sweet potatoes! YUM!
Sweet + tangy! Perfect combo.
This is the perfect lunch!
I love the addition of the cranberries – I never would have thought of that!
Great on rice cakes!
Absolutely! Love the idea of using rice cakes too.
I’ve made this twice now! The first time I didn’t have dijon mustard, scallions or a nice apple but it was still okay – I loved how quick it was so I made it again this week for lunch (but with all the ingredients) and GOOD GRAVY it’s so freaking good. I will definitely be making this on repeat! Thanks!!
Perfect for lunch!! Glad you were able to make it as-is 🙂 those flavors are game changers!
I don’t eat Tuna so I will make this with canned chicken. Sounds sooo good. I love all your recipes
Perfect! Let me know how you like it with canned chicken. Glad you’re loving recipes here, too 🙂
I made this for lunch yesterday and it was delicious! It reminded me a lot of chicken salad with the apples and (I added) raisins. I ate it on crackers, but I would like to try it on the sweet potato toast. Other than using raisins instead of cranberries, I only used half an apple. I thought adding the whole apple would be too much.
Glad you liked this recipe!
So Yummy! Both husband and I have been eating this all this week, We can’t get enough,
Love that! Such a great lunch!
Omitted the cranberries/cherries and still just as tasty. A really great healthy alternative by not using mayo and I couldn’t even tell the difference.
Perfect! Glad you enjoyed!
Terrific salad. Lapped up by my children for Saturday lunch. Yours is the go to website for great meal ideas. Maxim in the UK.
So happy to hear that! I hope you keep finding recipes you love 🙂
This recipe is tasty with tuna or wild pink or sockeye salmon. The video mentions adding 1 tablespoon of lemon juice but it’s not listed as an ingredient. I think it adds freshness as well as prevents the apple from browning. My method is to whisk avocado mayo or Greek yogurt with the honey mustard and lemon juice, then add the remaining ingredients. Half of a medium sized apple and 1 tablespoon of chopped dried cranberries is plenty, otherwise, the sweetness is overpowering. I mix green onion in the salad. Yummy wrapped in lettuce or on sprouted grain bread. I think roasted almond slices would be a nice addition.
Perfect! And thanks for the catch 🙂 glad you like this one!
This sounds delicious! does the nutritional information include the sweet potato slices or is it jus the salad itself?
It’s just for the salad itself 🙂 Enjoy!
Delicious take on tuna salad! I left out the dried cranberries and added some chopped walnuts and ate it as a sandwich with butter lettuce. Loved it for an easy, filling lunch meal prep. Thank you!
Perfect! Glad you liked it!
I feel like I’m always commenting on these recipes about how easy and cheap they are for college students! And this one is just the same! I put this in some collard greens to keep it low carb and get some extra nutrients. ‘Twas delicious!
Oh that’s so great to hear, Mikayla! Glad that you’re loving this one. And great idea to add collard greens–yummm!
Delicious recipes!
Thanks, Lisa!
Love this for meal prep. Had it over greens + crackers one day and the next open faced on cinnamon raisin bread. May sound strange but on top cinnamon raisin bread was DELISH. Yummy and happy tummy!
Ooh that all sounds amazing! And I can totally see the cinnamon raisin bread combo 😊
Hi!!
This recipe is delicious – however, question for ya- are the Macro facts inclusive of sweet potato? I made the salad less the potatoes and was trying to track – Thanks!
Good question! The nutrition facts do *not* include the sweet potato. We just added a note to clarify that — thanks!