High-Protein Creamy Cranberry Apple Tuna Salad Recipe (10 Minutes, 7 Ingredients) High Protein Recipes Seafood Appetizers Snacks Lunch Gluten-free Snacks Fruit

This tasty tuna salad recipe is sweet, crunchy, delicious and easy to make. Not only is this creamy cranberry apple tuna salad recipe delicious, but loaded with health protein. Check out the health benefits of protein!

Here is your short gluten-free shopping list for this easy tuna salad recipe: a can of tuna (check out the health benefits of tuna), dried cranberries (check out the health benefits of dried cranberries), celery, green onions (scallions), mayonnaise, lemons for juicing and a fresh apple (check out the health benefits of apples).

To make this high-protein recipe, mix the tuna with dried cranberries, celery, onion, mayonnaise and lemon juice, then serve over fresh slices of honeycrisp apple. These little bites are so good, and ready in just 10 minutes!

Variation: You could substitute dried cherries for the dried cranberries.

Serve this tuna salad recipe as a snack, appetizer, for lunch or as a light dinner. This tuna salad is a wonderful meal-prep recipe, too. (Dip the apples in lemon juice to keep them from browning.)

Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 0 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Servings: 1 to 2

Ingredients

• 5 ounces (1 can) Wild Planet Albacore Wild Tuna (or your favorite tuna), drained
• 1 tablespoon dried cranberries
• 1/2 a celery stalk, finely chopped
• 2 tablespoons green onion, finely chopped
• 2 - 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
• 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 1 honeycrisp apple, cored and sliced thin (for serving)

Here's how to make it: 

1. Put the tuna into a large bowl. Mash with a fork. 
2. Add the dried cranberries, celery, onion, mayonnaise and lemon juice. Stir well. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. (You could add other ingredients like red onion, sliced grapes or whatever you like in tuna salad.)
3. Top each apple slice with a spoonful of tuna salad and serve immediately. Store any leftover tuna salad in an airtight container in the fridge.

Photo and recipe courtesy of Wild Planet.

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