Tuna Fiesta with A Whole Lotta Lime!

This is a great side dish, snack, or quick light lunch or midnight snack. This is one of those recipes that made me want to eat tuna salad again. Tuna didn’t excite me as much and it was something I ate when I really had nothing else to eat. However, this side dish is delicious because it has a delicious peppery and limey taste that puckers my lips and makes me want more. I was inspired to make this recipe from Alina who was my teaching mentor when I was a student teacher. She learned the recipe from her boyfriend’s mother and I just stole it, altered it and made it my own =) I had this for lunch today and I felt refreshed. This is not the only way to make this salad. You can add diced celery, extra lime, diced peppers, etc.
If you want to make a sandwich this is great on some toasted sour dough bread with some alfalfa sprouts on top. If you are having a dinner party you can serve this salad, and many others in scooped out peppers or tomatoes or even in scooped out bread rolls. However, make sure you run the salad through a strainer so it doesn’t get the vegetables or bread soggy.

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Tuna Fiesta

Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Serves: 4 people

Ingredients:
2 cans of tuna in water
1 can of corn
1 large purple onion
2 plum tomatoes
3 tablespoons of low fat mayonnaise
3 limes
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon black pepper

Directions:
Strain the tuna and the corn as best as you can and then in a large mixing bowl put the tuna, corn, mayonnaise, salt, pepper, the juice of the limes into a bowl. Using a dicer*, slice the tomatoes and onions thinly and then dice them. If you do not have the dicer just chop the onion and tomatoes and small as possible. Mix this all together and enjoy. Serve this with bread, crackers, or eat alone.

* http://vegetablechopper.org/vegetable-dicer