This quick and easy healthy tuna salad recipe only takes 15 minutes to make, and is protein packed! Enjoy.
Our Favorite Tuna Salad
From this healthy tuna salad to our delicious tuna egg salad to this avocado tuna salad, we’re your gals when it comes to healthy tuna salad recipes here on Fit Foodie Finds. And this truly is our go-to when it comes to easy peasy tuna salad.
why you’ll love it
Protein-packed: Looking for a high protein snack or lunch? This tuna salad is it!
Oh so versatile: Serve this tuna salad on a sammie, with crackers or on a lettuce wrap. The options are endless!
Quick & easy to make: From start to finish, you’ll be eating this tuna salad in 15 minutes flat.
Healthy Tuna Salad Ingredients
- Canned tuna
- Red onion
- Celery
- Greek yogurt
- Mayo
- Fresh lemon juice
- Dijon mustard
- Salt & pepper
- Paprika
- Fresh dill
How to Make Healthy Tuna Salad
This tuna salad is as easy as 1-2-3! Here’s what you’ll need to do:
- Place the tuna, red onion, and celery into a large bowl and mix until well combined.
- Add the Greek yogurt, mayo, lemon juice, mustard, salt, and pepper to the tuna and stir until everything is combined.
- Top the tuna salad with paprika and fresh dill. Place the tuna salad in the refrigerator to chill or serve immediately on a sandwich or salad. ENJOY!
Easy Swaps for Tuna Salad
There are a few easy swaps we’re making in this healthy tuna salad that mean BIG things for flavor. Here’s what we did:
Mayo –> Greek yogurt + mayo: Many tuna salad recipes call for mayo, but ours features 1/3 cup of Greek yogurt and just 2 tablespoons of mayo. You’ll love the creaminess!
Dried dill –> fresh dill: we love love love the flavor of fresh herbs and don’t recommend subbing fresh dill for dried dill.
A little crunch: We love having a little crunch in our tuna salad, which is why you’ll be chopping up red onion and celery. So this is more an addition to many tuna salad recipes, than a substitution. Don’t skip the onion and celery!
How to Serve Tuna Salad
This recipe could not be easier! All you need to do is place all your ingredients in a bowl and mix together until everything is combined evenly. Then, enjoy with a fork or your favorite scooping snack like:
On toast: toast a piece of whole grain bread and then add a little butter to one side. Top it with this tuna salad!
In a wrap: line a large tortilla with spinach or romaine lettuce and then top it with this salad. Wrap it up like a burrito and enjoy.
With crackers: eat this nummy tuna salad as a snack with your favorite crackers and veggies.
Healthy Tuna Salad for Meal Prep
This recipe is easy enough to whip up at the office during lunch, but we love love love meal-prepping a large batch of this at the beginning of the week to have on hand for snacks, lunches and post-workout refuels.
If you’re planning to meal prep this tuna salad, we recommend double or tripling the recipe and adding a little fresh dill right before you serve.
Storage Instructions
This recipe will keep in your fridge for up to 5 days in an airtight container, just enough time to enjoy it throughout your work week 😀
Healthy Tuna Salad Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 5-oz. cans tuna in water strained
- ½ small red onion finely diced (~⅓ cup)
- 1 large celery stalk finely diced
- ⅓ cup 2% plain Greek yogurt
- 2 tablespoons mayo
- 1.5 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground pepper
- Pinch of paprika
- 1 tablespoon fresh dill chopped
Instructions
- Place the tuna, red onion, and celery into a large bowl and mix until well combined.
- Add the Greek yogurt, mayo, lemon juice, mustard, salt, and pepper to the tuna and stir until combined. Be sure the tuna is coated in sauce.
- Top the tuna salad with paprika and fresh dill. Place the tuna salad in the refrigerator to chill or serve immediately on a sandwich or salad.
Tips & Notes
- This recipe and photos were updated on 4/25/2022. Find the original recipe HERE.
This is almost too good to be true. Fabulous recipe, thank you so yeah
Yea, its really tasty , but, if you add some lemon juice, it will be more delicious!
This is almost too good to be true. Fabulous recipe, thank you so much!!
I bet the chives and lemon make this SO refreshing!
The recipes look great, I can’t wait to try them, but where can I find cauliflower rice?
Would you be able to use dried chives instead?
Love how incredibly easy yet tasty this is. I bet I would just eat it by the spoonful 😉 Great video, you look lovely 🙂
Love the video! Looks like it was fun to film too 🙂
This looks so yummy. I love tuna! I will definitely try this one of these days! Thank you for sharing the recipe 🙂
Tuna, Greek yogurt, chives, whole grain crackers … all things I love, in a healthy snack. Though I might just eat it straight out of the bowl. Also gotta move around more during the day. Maybe I’ll get a walking desk.
I loved the video Lee! This challenge sounds awesome, and that tuna salad sounds like the perfect easy lunch!
Thanks, Les!
This definitely something I need this year. I thought that because I work from home and have a flexible schedule I’d be able to work out more, but it’s actually wayyyyyy less. Heck, I didn’t leave the house at all on Monday & Tuesday which is INSANE. I’m working on incorporating more at home workouts into my routine just so I actually get up and move sometime during the day. Fingers crossed I can get it together this year.
I feel the same way…especially during winter 🙁 It’s a lot harder for me to keep moving on top of working out when my big and beautiful couch is calling my name 😛
You’re so stinking cute! Thanks for letting me be on set with you! Love all that this challenge stands for. And I’m with you, flexible schedule and all I still spend way too much time sitting — totally ready to MOVE MORE!
Heart you!
I love this collaboration! So perfect and what a fantastic theme! I love me a good tuna salad – such an easy and protein-packed meal. Tuna is my ‘go-to’ when I’m on the go! I love that you created this recipe with greek yogurt and lemon juice.
This recipe is seriously the most perfect post workout snack! 34 grams of protein? AH-MAZ-ING!
RIGHT?! That’s like a mega nutrition-packed meal right there. HUZZAH.
umm so awesome !
Thanks love bug!
Great collaboration–this looks so much fun! I love this healthified tuna salad–I’ve never had canned tuna, but it looks pretty good, actually, plus it’s very nutritious and cheap!
YES YES AND YES.
This looks delicious!! Just pinned to make this week 🙂
Thanks for sharing Kelly. You’re the bestest!
This video is awesome! I love your ambition to branch out of the regular blogs!
Thanks Victoria! We had so much fun putting it together 🙂