WordNet
n. salad composed primarily of chopped canned tuna fish [syn: tuna fish salad]
Wikipedia
Tuna salad is typically a blend of two main ingredients: tuna and mayonnaise or mayonnaise-substitute. The tuna used is usually pre-cooked, canned, and packaged in water or oil. Pickles, hard-boiled egg, celery, relish, and onion are ingredients that are often added. When the spread is placed on bread, it makes a tuna salad sandwich. Tuna salad is also regularly served on top of lettuce, tomato, avocado, or crackers, or by itself.
Quick homemade tuna salad is often made by omitting the eggs and only adding relish to the tuna and mayonnaise. Eggs are omitted because they must be cooked whereas the other ingredients are purchased ready to eat. Relish adds a piquant flavor but, unlike commonly added vegetables, requires no chopping.
In Belgium, the dish pêches au thon / perziken met tonijn (peaches with tuna) is made from halved canned or fresh peaches stuffed with tuna salad. It is widespread throughout the country, and due to its ease of preparation, it is common fare at potlucks.
Sometimes, as a healthier alternative to mayonnaise, mashed avocado and a squeeze of lemon juice are used in the preparation of tuna salad.
Usage examples of "tuna salad".
Aside from the aforementioned, I can scramble eggs and make a fair tuna salad, but that's about it.
Once she finished a tuna salad on rye and a pimento cheese on white, Dahlia gazed at Kevin.
The tuna salad was in a covered glass bowl next to a container of washed lettuce.
I dug into my tuna salad sandwich, only to see Scott's gaze on me.
Her tuna salad was different from his housekeeper's, but he declared he liked hers better.
Bill bit into a tuna salad sandwich, sweet with chopped Vidalia onions, and Ellita put two heaping tablespoons of Le Creme into his steaming tomato soup.
She read the chapter on Adrian Marcato and the one called Witch Practices, and then she went into the kitchen and ate some tuna salad and lettuce and tomatoes, thinking about what she had read.
On an impulse, I parked the car and went in and ordered a tuna salad on rye from the woman at the deli counter in the rear.