Tasty Tuna Salad Topped Salad

Need a break from a lot of holiday sweets and treats? Try this delicious salad topped with tuna salad and fixings. This recipe is quick, tasty and very healthy.  Add a dinner roll, breadsticks or crackers. Try it, you’ll like it.

Author: Michelle Hanson

Michelle Hanson, MA, RD, LD is Fresh & Natural Food’s Registered Dietitian. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics with a minor in Community Health from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. She is a registered dietitian and current member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Michelle has been a nutrition consultant for numerous years as well as a nutrition research director at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.

Michelle is passionate about food and nutrition and believes in helping people find simple, realistic ways to make healthy eating a part of their everyday lifestyle.
If you are interested in meeting Michelle or have questions for her, you can email her at: michelle@fnfoods.com. She will look forward to meeting you!

Servings: 2 | Prep Time: 15 minutes | Cook Time: | Ready in: 15 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 cans (6 oz. each) chunk light tuna (packed in water), drained
• 1/2 stalk of celery, chopped in small pieces
• 6 green olives: 4 chopped; 2 whole
• 2 T light mayonnaise
• 1/4 tsp Tony's Chachere's creole seasoning
• 1/2 tsp of chopped parsley
• salt and pepper to taste
• 3 cups of mixed greens
• 1 small carrot, peeled and shredded
• 1 small avocado, peeled, pitted and sliced
• 1 small tomato cut into quartered slices

Instructions

1. Make the tuna salad by mixing the following ingredients into a small bowl: the tuna, celery, 4 green olives chopped, Tony’s seasoning, mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste. Set aside.
2. On two dinner plates add 1 1/2 c of mixed greens to each plate. Top with  shredded carrots.
3. Add the half of  tuna salad mixture to the center of the mixed greens to each plate. Add the quartered tomatoes around the edges of the tuna salad.
4. Lastly, add slices of avocado around the tuna salad on each plate and top with one green olive in the center of the tuna salad mixture. If desired, top the whole salad plate with a salad dressing of your choice.