Recipe: Perfect Tuna and White Bean Salad

Tuna and White Bean Salad. Simple tuna and white bean salad, a classic combination and so easy to make! Some items that you will almost always find well stocked in our pantry are canned beans (white beans, garbanzo, kidney) and canned tuna packed in olive oil. Purists would insist on imported Italian canned tuna fish for the Tuscan classic, but we think plain old tuna from the supermarket is just fine, too.

I use chunk white albacore tuna packed in water that flakes in large chunks rather than skinny bits like you might find in regular old tuna sandwiches. This Tuna and White Bean salad is mayo-free, but big on flavor. So, I came up with this easy little Tuna and White Bean Salad to solve both of those problems. You can cook Tuna and White Bean Salad using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Tuna and White Bean Salad

1. You need 400 g of Cannellini Beans.
2. You need 300 g of Albacore Tuna.
3. It's 10 of Anchovies.
4. You need 1 of Red Onion.
5. You need 450 g of Jar Roasted Red & Yellow Peppers.
6. You need 250 g of Cherry Tomatoes.
7. You need 100 g of Black Olives.
8. You need 50 g of Parsley.
9. It's 1 tbsp of Garlic Puree.
10. You need 2 tbsp of Olive Oil.
11. You need 1 of Juice of Lemon.
12. It's 1 tbsp of Balsamic Vinegar.
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White beans (navy or great northern) are pretty neutral in flavor and the texture goes quite well with tuna, so they're a really great way to. This classic Italian salad marries cooked white beans and oil-packed tuna for a protein-packed, pantry-friendly, light meal that's perfect for warm weather. The vinegar used to marinate the onions and the juice that the onions release in the process together form the base of the dressing for the salad. Learn how to make Tuna and White Bean Salad.

Tuna and White Bean Salad instructions

1. Chop onion and place in a bowl and add olive oil, balsamic and garlic purée..
2. Chop peppers and slice tomatoes into quarters and olives into halves and add to mix..
3. Add cannellini beans together with flaked tuna and finely sliced anchovies..
4. Finally add juice of lemon and parsley and enjoy..

The time-honored Italian pairing of canned tuna and cannellini beans makes a super-simple, satisfying lunch. Serve over salad greens, on grilled whole-wheat country bread or tucked in a whole-wheat pita pocket. Salads are an amazing way to vary meals and keep prep time to a minimum. We know it can be hard to keep salads interesting, we highly recommend this colorful salad. If you are going to make a white bean & tuna salad (which, if you've never had it, might not sound good, but is) with canned goods, this is a good recipe.