This easy tuna egg salad uses just 3 basic ingredients from your pantry to create a quick, high-protein lunch.
Just mix and eat, or customize it with your favorite veggie add-ins!
It’s naturally low-carb, dairy-free, and makes the perfect filling for a bagel, rye bread, roll, or classic white bread sandwich. Or save the calories and have it on a plate!
Easy Tuna Egg Salad is a simple dish with only 3 basic ingredients. The rest is completely optional!
It’s the perfect light lunch for home, school, or work! So, don’t eat out—save your lunch money!
Tip: an excellent mayo for this salad is Hellmann’s or Best Foods (they are the same; just the name is different depending on where you are in the US).
Variations on Easy Deli Tuna and Egg Salad
While I like to keep it basic and simple, there are several additional diced vegetables that can be added to this salad.
These include onions (red or yellow), scallions, shallots, pickles, relish, and bell peppers (any color).
Or top with cucumbers or tomatoes!
Some people spice up their tuna salad with salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, etc. Or add lemon juice, mustard, or minced garlic for flavoring.
Go crazy and add whatever you like and as much as you like!
Have it on a plate, in a bagel, on a roll, on rye bread, or on white!
An alternative to dicing the eggs and mixing them in with the tuna, you can make the dish without it and just lay egg slices on top of the tuna and mayo.
This salad is healthy because tuna has health benefits!
And check out a little about eggs…
For many years eggs were considered a source of high cholesterol and a possible cause of heart disease, and people were warned against them and recommended to have only a few per week in their diets.
It is true that one large egg yolk has 200 mg of cholesterol. However, the additional nutrients that eggs contain may actually help LOWER the risk of heart disease by raising the “good” cholesterol in one’s body.
Eggs are high in protein and filling but low in calories. They have nutritional value and contain a large variety of vitamins as well as some antioxidants.
The color of the yolk depends on the diet of the hen, and different types of chickens may lay different colored eggs, white or brownish.
Egg white consists primarily of approximately 90 percent water and contains almost no fat or carbohydrates.
The yolk of a new egg is firm, but then it absorbs water from the egg white, which causes it to increase in size and become loose.
You may be surprised to know that raw egg white is sometimes used in the preparation of vaccines.
Many people believe that since eggs are found in the refrigerated section of the supermarket and very frequently near the dairy section, they are also dairy.
Nonetheless, eggs are NOT DAIRY. You CANNOT milk a chicken!
If you love deli salads, try these!
- Sweet Deli Cole Slaw
- Israeli Red Cabbage Salad
- Olivier Salad
- Broccoli Salad
- Deli Tuna Salad
- Deli Style Egg Salad
Easy Tuna Egg Salad (with 3 basic ingredients)
Delicious and easy, customizable 3-ingredient tuna and egg salad.
Ingredients
- 10 ounces (2 5-ounce cans) tuna in water, drained well
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise (for less calories, use less mayonnaise or low-fat mayonnaise)*
- 2 hard-boiled eggs, diced
- celery, bell pepper (any color), onion, all diced small and all are optional
Instructions
- Place tuna in a bowl and mash with a fork.
- Mix in egg and mayonnaise.
- Add diced vegetable (optional)
Notes
*Best mayonnaise to use is Best Foods or Hellman's (they are the same, just with different names depending on where you live in the US).
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
2Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 478Total Fat: 47gSaturated Fat: 8gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 37gCholesterol: 210mgSodium: 476mgCarbohydrates: 7gFiber: 1gSugar: 3gProtein: 8g