another delicious fresh salad everyone like it, this salad is perfect for summer days because it combines tuna and macaroni with peas, also mayonnaise.
Basic pasta tuna salad recipe
Pasta tuna salad is one of the most economical foods, especially this one because it combines all the necessary ingredients to make you feel full.
Everyone of us has some memories with this recipe, our mothers used to prepare it after coming back from the school isn't.
If you used to eat it each time from your mother hands, today you will learn how to prepare it by yourself for your kids.
Most famous asked questions:
What exists in this fresh tuna pasta salad?
The classic elements to make this salad are very simple, fresh tuna or canned, peas of your choice and seasoned mayonnaise with onions and relish.
What better to use, onions or shallot?
It depends on your taste, use onion if you like the pop flavor of it, and for a light choice use the shallot.
is it possible to use different pasta type?
yes it is possible to use any desired pasta shape, but the best pasta shape for this recipe is whether farfalle, cavatelli, or elbow macaroni.
which type of canned tuna I have to use?
If there is no fresh tuna, make sure to use the canned water tuna, because any other kind of tuna is going to destroy the texture and the classic flavor of the salad.
can I prepare tuna salad before the time of serving?
Yes, you can prepare tuna salad at night and keep it in the fridge until tomorrow, or make it in the morning to serve it at night, also this step is going to improve the taste.
Is it possible to frozen the salad?
Maybe if it is urgent, but we don't recommend it, the frozen pasta is not a good quality as the fresh one, that is why make sure to prepare the convenient quantity.
Time that tuna salad lasts in the fridge :
you can keep tuna macaroni salad in the fridge for about 4 days in any container but it's important to know that the quality of your salad is going to degrade after a few days of storage.
Elements needed :
- Desired pasta shape, use the smaller ones.
- Tuna, bring the canned in water, avoid canned in oil or any other flavor.
- onion, you can use shallots if you are a fan of garlic flavor, and for the lovers of strong flavor of onion use onion instead.
- Mayonnaise, the sour one is perfect and any type of mayonnaise you have in your fridge even it is seasoned is fine .
- Pickle relish, use the sweet kind, or homemade pickles, but if it is not your type substitute it by another one of your choice.
- Diced celery or the seeds of the celery to add different flavor.
- Squeeze of Lemon juice to balance everything together.
- Peas: the frozen one, or dried canned peas.
the process of preparing macaroni tuna salad:
starting by cooking the pasta with the mentioned way in the package, at the same time drain the tuna of water and cut boiled egg and shallots or onion in another Bowl, combine the relish and mayonnaise with celery seeds or chopped celery add lemon juice, pepper and salt to taste and mix everything together and add tuna and peas.
As a last step drain your pasta and cool it down with cold water and add it to the ingredients.
To get the best results place your covered salad bowl into the fridge for about two hours and enjoy the most delicious and fresh salad ever.
