# Healthy Tuna Salad

This is a healthy, high-protein tuna salad recipe made without mayo.

- Cuisine: American
- Category: Salad
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 can tuna
- celery
- green onion
- carrot
- 1 dill pickle
- 0.33 cup cottage cheese
- 1 tbsp greek yogurt
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- 0.5 tsp garlic
- salt
- pepper

## Instructions

1. Open one can of tuna and drain the water.
2. Put the drained tuna into a bowl.
3. Finely dice the carrot.
4. Finely dice the celery.
5. Finely dice one green onion.
6. Finely dice one dill pickle.
7. Add the diced carrot, celery, green onion, and pickle to the bowl with the tuna.
8. In a separate container, add 1/3 cup of blended cottage cheese, 1 tbsp of Greek yogurt, 1 tsp of Dijon mustard, 1/2 tsp of garlic (or garlic powder), and salt and pepper to taste.
9. Blend the sauce ingredients together.
10. Pour the blended sauce into the tuna mixture.
11. Mix all the ingredients thoroughly.

## Equipment

- can opener
- bowl
- fork
- knife
- cutting board
- tongs
- blender
- spoon

## Tips

- Cottage cheese is a hack to make the tuna salad high in protein and super creamy.
- Use dill pickles, not sweet pickles.

## Source

- Original video: https://pin.it/korZkaL2Q
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/a1cca394-7794-4726-854d-47bf0b365f0c
- Extracted: 2025-06-25

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