Mediterranean Tuna Salad 🐟🥗 | A Fresh Twist on the Classic Tuna Sandwich!
This summer, I’m giving beloved classics a fresh Mediterranean spin—and today, we’re upgrading the traditional tuna salad! This Mediterranean Tuna Salad is flavorful, vibrant, and perfect for sunny days when you want something light, refreshing, and satisfying.
Packed with fresh ingredients, great texture, and bold flavor, this salad is incredibly versatile. Serve it:
🥪 On toasted bread (my kids’ favorite)
🥑 Stuffed in an avocado for a lunch that impresses
🥙 On grilled pita for that authentic Mediterranean touch
🥬 Over greens as a chilled, hearty salad
📌 Make it ahead and store it in the fridge—it’s even better when served cold on a hot day!
Whether you’re prepping for a family lunch, a casual picnic, or a summer buffet, this recipe brings together all the best Mediterranean flavors in a way that feels new and exciting—but still totally comforting.
💬 Let me know in the comments how you like your tuna salad—classic, grilled, or stuffed!
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Today we’re going to make this nutritious, colorful Mediterranean tuna salad. Look at this. Beautiful, packed with color, nutrients, tons of protein. For a little added kick, you can do a little red pepper flakes. And you could serve this on bread, pa, bed of lettuce, or try it by itself. [Music] To get started on making our Mediterranean tuna fish salad, we have tuna. Canned tuna. Drain it. It’s all ready. We’re going to add that to the bowl. Then I have chickpeas. Drain the chickpeas. They’re just from a can. Drain them. Add them. Next, we have a half a cup of cherry tomatoes. I’m going to put them cut them in half. Add them right to our salad. Next, we have our cucumber. So, we’re going to do we’re going to dice the cucumber. And we’re going to do a half a cup of cucumber. Half a cup of cucumber. Right to our bowl. Leave this set aside. We’ve galamata olives. So, I have these. These have no pit in them. About a four of a cup. Just going to slice them a little. Perfect. Right to the bowl. Then we have red onion. So, we only need about 2 tablespoons of red onion. I’m going to clean this. So, measure that out. Two tablespoons. Perfect. And then we need fresh parsley. So, we’re going to chop up couple tablespoons of fresh parsley. Very colorful salad, which means it’s full of nutrients, packed with protein, and delicious. And what would a Mediterranean salad be without feta? We have to add some feta there. So, crumbled feta cheese. Look at that. It’s already looking so beautiful and colorful. So, now our dressing. So, we’re going to take our dressing, olive oil, lemon juice. So, we have fresh lemon. Squeeze that in. Perfect. salt, pepper, and oregano. Measure this out. And we’re going to do dried oregano. [Music] Whisk this together. Pour that right on top. Give this nice toss. Mix this all up. tuna and the veggies. I’m not a big mayonnaise fan, so this has always been my go-to when I make tuna fish. So, I hope you guys try this because look at this. So colorful, packed with flavor, all our Mediterranean ingredients that we always love. Look at that beautiful Mediterranean tuna fish salad. For the full recipe, visit nikyluckus.com. And don’t forget, like, subscribe, follow me on Instagram, and check out my Amazon store for some of my favorite products. [Music] Hey, hey, hey.
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