Recipes that you can make with a can of tuna and very little effort

Chickpeas with tuna and tomatoes

Here's a delicious chickpea salad with canned tuna. Drain some canned chickpeas and a couple of cans of natural tuna, and mix them with 20 g of washed cherry tomatoes, two julienned chives and chopped chives. Season to taste and voila. It is one of the recipes to lose weight … easy and appetizing! because although it is very nutritious, it is also very light.

Potato salad with green beans, tuna and egg

As a base, put some tender boiled or steamed beans, and accompany them with a cooked potato, raw tomato wedges, boiled egg and canned tuna. The trick so that it does not fall apart is to take the ingredients separately and "build" the salad and dress it at the time of eating. As a dressing, you can take an old mustard vinaigrette with chopped red onion in a small jar. It fits wonderfully in healthy and light tupperware salads.

Tuna pizza

It has no mystery. On a pizza base (find out how to make homemade pizza dough here), put tomato sauce, well-drained canned tuna and mozzarella. And if you want to add a bit of flavor, you can add pine nuts and hard-boiled egg cubes like here. Another combination that is delicious is: tuna with strips of piquillo pepper, pickles and olives.

Timbale of beans, peppers, egg and tuna

To make this timbale, alternately layer strips of piquillo pepper, slices of boiled egg, and drained canned beans. And finally, top with tuna belly or canned tuna in oil and a homemade mayonnaise or muslin to decorate and season.

Rice and tuna salad

It is one of the most sought after and delicious rice recipes. Take cooked and well drained white rice and mix it with diced tomato and pepper, some onion strips, natural canned tuna, olives and a boiled egg. Dress with a vinaigrette or light sauce. Easy right?

Macaroni gratin with tuna and tomato

It is one of the undisputed stars of tuna recipes and children's menus as well. Prepare an onion and red pepper sauce and then mix it with drained canned tuna and fried tomato. While cooking some macaroni al dente. Put them in a refractory dish with the sauce, cover them with grated cheese, the gratins, and that's it.

Green salad with tuna

It is one of the classic salads to lose weight, light and delicious, but no less tasty. The trick to make it more appetizing is to put lettuces of various colors (which are easier to see), cut the vegetables very finely (carrot, pepper, onion) and decorate with some aromatic herb (fresh mint, rosemary …) to to be opening your mouth. But, yes, tinned tuna is better natural to avoid going overboard with the oil.

Cucumber boats stuffed with tuna salad

Peel the cucumbers and cut them in half, lengthwise. Pour them lightly with a spoon. Chop the pulp and mix it with cooked and drained long rice, natural canned tuna, carrots and chopped olives. Season to taste, fill the cucumbers with this mixture and serve with arugula leaves. Discover more recipes with cucumber or easy and quick recipes for when you don't want to complicate your life.

Mini empanadas

For an easy version, mix an existing ratatouille with canned tuna and boiled egg. Roll out the empanada dough and cut it into circles. You place one as a base, spread the filling on top, and cover it with another disk. Then, you seal the edges, decorate with strips of leftover dough and make a hole in the center so that it does not break during cooking. Brushes with whipped yolk and bake for 40 minutes at 180 °.

Avocados stuffed with Russian salad

In the recipes with canned tuna, of course, a dish with Russian salad could not be missing. To make these avocados, cut them in half. Remove the bone and part of the pulp. Chop it up and mix it with a Russian salad (you can make it with a frozen vegetable stew, canned tuna and mayonnaise). And finally, fill the avocados. If you're worried about the line, we have a recipe for light Russian salad that is 100% guilt-free.

Tuna omelette with peppers

One of the classics of canned tuna recipes is the tuna omelette. And to give it a twist we have added green peppers, which pair wonderfully with tuna. You just have to mix an onion and pepper sauce with canned tuna, all well drained, add beaten egg and curdle an omelet.

Eggs Stuffed With Tuna

They can be filled with practically anything. But if you want to make the most popular recipe, you can't miss the canned tuna. Cook some eggs, cut them in half and carefully separate the yolk and set it aside. Mix a part of the yolks with the tuna, fried tomato and a little mayonnaise. With the help of a spoon, fill the cooked egg whites with the mixture. And decorate with the yolk that you had set aside grated and chopped chives.

Tuna and red onion sandwich

Arrange finely chopped red onion and lettuce in a bowl, add canned tuna and a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise or a mixture of yogurt with a little honey and mustard. Mix everything well and fill with it some slices of good sliced bread. Rich, rich, rich.

Tuna lasagna sushi

You can also take a classic recipe and reinterpret it or present it in an original and appetizing way. Here you have a sushi rice with canned tuna and cucumber instead of raw fish and nori seaweed, and assembled like a lasagna. An ingenious proposal with a very appetizing look (see step-by-step sushi lasagna recipe).

Tuna and tomato dumplings

Mix the canned tuna with a sauce of onion and tomato, and add chopped cooked egg. Spoon a tablespoon of the mixture onto the patty wafer. Fold it over on itself and seal the edges with the tines of a fork. Fry it in plenty of hot oil. And let it drain on kitchen paper before serving. So that it does not absorb so much oil, you can also make it in the oven, without the need to fry.