{"id":99537,"date":"2018-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/origin-www.tasteofhome.com\/recipes\/tuna-egg-salad\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T11:30:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T16:30:15","slug":"tuna-egg-salad","status":"publish","type":"recipe","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteofhome.com\/recipes\/tuna-egg-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuna Salad with Egg"},"content":{"rendered":"
There are so many ways to customize a tuna salad recipe. Which type of tuna should you use? Do you go with mayonnaise or Miracle Whip? We’re here to throw you another curveball: adding eggs to the mix. If you’ve never made tuna salad with egg, get ready. It may just be our new favorite tuna salad recipe<\/a>, and we bet it will be yours, too.<\/p>\n This simple recipe takes everything you love about old-fashioned tuna salad and marries it harmoniously with the classic egg salad<\/a> recipe. Made with canned tuna, a hard-boiled egg, mayo, celery, mustard and sweet pickles, it’s a delightfully easy recipe that you won’t believe you’ve never thought of before.<\/p>\n Enjoy a simple scoop with crackers for a protein-packed snack, or serve it over a bed of greens or wrapped in a tortilla\u00a0for a wholesome all-in-one meal that won’t disappoint.<\/p>\n Combine the egg, tuna, celery, pickles, mayonnaise and mustard in a small bowl.<\/p>\n Stir well to mix.<\/p>\n Serve the salad with crackers or as a sandwich filling, or spoon it into hollowed-out tomatoes.<\/p>\n This tuna salad recipe with egg should be kept in an airtight container in the refrigerator and enjoyed within three or four days.<\/p>\n You can make tuna salad with eggs up to 24 hours ahead of time. Before serving, we recommend giving the salad a stir to reincorporate everything before serving.<\/p>\n When it comes to making hard-boiled eggs for tuna salad, you can use any method you enjoy. Boiling on the stovetop is our favorite method to boil eggs<\/a>, but you could also bake hard-boiled eggs in the oven<\/a>, prepare air fryer hard-boiled eggs<\/a> or make easy Instant Pot hard-boiled eggs<\/a>.<\/p>\n This easy tuna fish salad with egg recipe can be enjoyed alone as a snack, as a tuna salad sandwich<\/a> or as a tuna salad wrap. Or pair this easy tuna salad recipe with a garden salad, a side of homemade potato chips<\/a>, veggies and dip or any one of these quick pasta salad recipes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Making tuna salad with egg is a simple variation on the classic recipe you need to try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7061,"featured_media":1996724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false},"tags":[307076,304328,304993,305487,304338,306650,307033,307049,307044,304988,303887,306848,305024,304297,304268,304350,324623,306571,306640,307769,303883,307069,306690,307614],"categories-v2":[310153,308984,308940,310796,308992,312630,312493,310079,310085,310082,308935,308478,309603,308965,308308,259483,309001,309177,312458,312615,312558,310734,308476,310146,312659,312574,310591],"coauthors":[206601],"recommended_recipes":[{"post_title":"Tuna Macaroni 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