Easy Tuna Salad Bowl with Avocado, Edamame, and Cherry Tomatoes
Prep time: 10 minutes — Cook time: 10 minutes — Total time: 20 minutes — Serving: 2 people
Description
The easiest recipe for a delicious, quick, and healthy dinner salad with tuna mousse. It is super yummy as a nice lunch or a light dinner. The mousse is made with creme fraiche. This is a simple basic recipe for a healthy tuna salad.
Ingredients
Tuna Salad
9.88 oz (280 g) tuna, canned
5 tablespoons creme fraiche
1 teaspoon lemon juice
salt/pepper
Salad Bowl
1.76 oz (50 g) fresh spinach
1.76 oz (50 g) cherry tomatoes
0.5 red bell pepper
1.06 oz (30 g) frozen edamame beans without pod
0.25 red onion
1 avocado
Directions
- Drain tuna from water. Mix ingredients for the tuna mousse.
- Clean lettuce and cut cherry tomatoes, red bell pepper, avocado, and red onion to your preference with your KUMA Chef’s Knife. Add them into a bowl along with edamame beans - we like adding the avocado on top.
- Top off with tuna salad scoops and some fresh dill or parsley for garnish if you have it.
Easy recipe for salad bowl with healthy tuna mousse and avocado
A super delicious and easy recipe for a healthy salad bowl with tuna salad. The tuna salad / mousse is made with creme fraiche instead of butter.
We love homemade salad bowls when we want a light and healthy dinner. The red onion adds an amazing fresh taste and crunch.
Different easy dinner salad recipes
Salads are super easy to alternate and build upon. For this salad you can also add things like capers, egg or some chili sauce if you want it to be a spicy tuna mousse salad bowl. If you want to go that direction, you can also add chili or red bell pepper to give it some more edge.
If you want to try some of our other salad bowls, we can recommend our Salad Bowl with Salmon and Garlic Dressing or Healthy Salad Bowl with Asian Pork Tenderloin.
Healthy meal prep ideas
A salad like this can easily be scaled up to make more portions which you can then split up into some food-safe containers or lunchboxes. The tuna will last you a few days in the fridge. The tuna mousse itself can even be used as a lovely filling in a sandwich or it can be served with pasta, making it an even better meal prep candidate as you can make various meals out of it.
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