Tuna and red bean salad

Delicious, satisfying, fast, and healthy - without any extra hassle! Salad with tuna and red beans is very easy and quick to make, because it requires only canned foods and vegetables. Oil dressing complements and emphasizes the taste of all components well. And spend no more than 20 minutes of time!
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 32 % 6 g
Fats 26 % 5 g
Carbohydrates 42 % 8 g
102 kcal
GI: 38 / 0 / 63

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 20 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make a salad with tuna and red beans? Prepare the necessary products. Remove the canned beans and olives from the jars on a sieve to drain the liquid. Choose tuna canned in slices or fillets, but not chopped. Tuna also needs to be removed and freed from the liquid. Cherry tomatoes take dense, unripe, so that they are well cut and retain their shape. Greens can be taken any and at will.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Peel and wash the red onion. Cut the onion into thin half rings, put it in a suitable bowl. Pour vinegar over the onion and leave to marinate for 10 minutes. Then drain the vinegar.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Wash and dry the bell pepper. Remove the seeds and the green part. Cut the pepper into medium cubes.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Wash and dry cherry tomatoes. Cut the cherry with a sharp knife into 2 or 4 pieces, depending on their size. You can take ordinary tomatoes. In this case, cut the tomatoes into small cubes.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    In a small bowl, combine the ingredients for the dressing: olive oil, lemon juice and ground black pepper. Mix everything well.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    In a suitable-sized salad bowl, combine red beans, olives, tuna, red onion, tomatoes, bell pepper. Pour the dressing over the salad, mix gently. If necessary, add salt to the salad.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Wash the dill, dry it, chop it finely.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Sprinkle the salad with herbs before serving. Enjoy your meal!

So that the mucous membrane of the eyes is not irritated when slicing onions, rinse the onion and knife with cold water. The cutting board will not absorb the unpleasant onion smell if you rub it with a piece of lemon before slicing.

Choose juicy tomatoes, but dense. Soft fruits do not keep their shape well, in the process of slicing and mixing they will spread into a shapeless mass and spoil the appearance of the salad.

Since the degree of salinity, sweetness, bitterness, sharpness, acid, burning is individual for everyone, always add spices, spices and seasonings, focusing on your taste! If you put some of the seasonings for the first time, then keep in mind that there are spices that it is especially important not to shift (for example, chili pepper).

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Sweet pepper - 27   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Dill greens - 38   kcal/100g
  • Olives - 115   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Lemon juice - 16   kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913   kcal/100g
  • Table vinegar - 11   kcal/100g
  • Cherry tomatoes - 15   kcal/100g
  • Canned beans - 99   kcal/100g
  • Canned tuna in its own juice - 96   kcal/100g

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