# Healthy Tuna Celery Salad

This is a high protein tuna celery salad with no mayonnaise, offering a creamy, savory, sweet, and crunchy taste.

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

## Ingredients

- 1 can Tuna
- 1 cup Celery
- 0.5 cup Cucumber
- 1 Apple
- 0.5 cup Cottage cheese
- 2 tablespoons Greek yogurt
- 0.5 teaspoon Garlic
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- Fresh dill
- Salt
- Pepper

## Instructions

1. First, start by opening one can of tuna.
2. Drain the tuna and put it in a bowl.
3. Dice up the celery real small.
4. Next, cut up some cucumber. You can use regular or Persian cucumbers.
5. Put the diced celery and cucumber into the bowl with the tuna.
6. Peel and dice an apple for sweetness. Fuji apples are recommended, but any apple works.
7. Add the diced apple to the tuna mixture.
8. For the sauce, put half a cup of cottage cheese into a measuring cup.
9. Add two tablespoons of Greek yogurt to the cottage cheese.
10. Add half a teaspoon of garlic.
11. Add some Dijon mustard.
12. Add a little bit of fresh dill (optional).
13. Top it off with some salt and pepper.
14. Blend the sauce ingredients together until smooth.
15. Pour the blended sauce into the tuna and vegetable mixture.
16. Mix everything together well.

## Equipment

- Can opener
- Bowl
- Cutting board
- Knife
- Measuring cup
- Spoon
- Immersion blender
- Pepper mill
- Salt shaker

## Tips

- Dicing the celery real small is key.
- Cottage cheese is a hack to up the protein to 50 grams for this dish.
- You can use whatever apples you have on hand for sweetness.
- Fresh dill is optional but recommended.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1117456776938161?fs=e&fs=e
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/beb0f830-3dd1-4cb0-9052-b2b77b55da54
- Extracted: 2025-07-19

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