Greek Tuna Pasta Salad
Summer is about backyard parties, picnics, and days at the beach! For these occasions, we enjoy making certain foods like sandwiches 🥪, hummus, muffins, smoked sausages, charcuterie boards, snacks, granola bars, etc.
Salads 🥗 are another popular choice. I think of Israeli, Creamy Bacon Potato or Moroccan Potato Salad, Niçoise, Mixed Tomato, Chickpea Corn, and others.
Pasta Salad is another popular item! As most of you know, I love pasta, and there are already a few of these salads here at CF, like Mediterranean Chicken Pesto Pasta 🐓, Pasta Primavera, Macaroni Salad, and more, including this featured one… Greek Tuna Pasta Salad!
This colorful salad is loaded with deliciousness! With an assortment of fresh vegetables, feta cheese 🧀, and a lovely dressing, this is the perfect summer salad! It’s easy to make and another amazing dish to add to your folder! This is one of my summertime go-to recipes…
After the noodles are cooked, cool to room temperature, and you have your “mise en place” (which means everything in place and ready to go), the rest is kiddie play 👧👱♂️! This tasty Greek Salad Dressing is something you can make ahead, and you’ll see, it takes no time to put this healthy recipe together!
If not using the cooked pasta right away or, in this case, letting it to cool, pour on some oil and gently toss. It keeps the noodles from clumping and sticking together. For this Greek Tuna Pasta Salad, I use grapeseed or any other flavorless oil to avoid compromising the flavor. Olive oil is good for regular pasta dishes 🍝.
Some people find raw onion 🧅 tastes overwhelming. To remedy this situation, click on this link… How to Remove Bitterness from Onions. The other alternative is to use a milder onion like green onions or Vidalia.
Like most recipes, adjust it to your liking! All our lives (even before we met), David and I have never been big fans of “salt”. Yes, some salt 🧂 is okay, but not a ton like I see in so many home-cook recipes or from chefs. If you’re wise and start doing some research, you’ll see how bad salt can be for your body. As you saw in the video, I don’t add any because feta cheese is already salty (yes, even after rinsing it), so I’d rather use other spices, even freshly ground mixed peppercorns, to bring the flavors together… no extra salt needed!
When pouring in the Greek Salad Dressing, add a little at a time just enough to lightly coat the ingredients. Taste 👄 and adjust if needed before adding a little more. Normally, for 1 lb. of pasta, I use ½ cup of dressing. Same thing here… adjust to your liking!
This healthy Greek Tuna Pasta Salad is incredibly delicious! With gorgeous ingredients, this is a rainbow 🌈 of yumminess! Bring summer to your plate by making this succulent pasta salad dish! After trying it, it wouldn’t surprise me if it becomes your “go-to” recipe as well…
Bon Appétit! 🍽
Here are more incredible salad recipes for you to try… 🥗😀
– Buffalo Chicken Salad
– Israeli Salad
– Cantaloupe Cucumber Salad
– Waldorf Salad
– Tabbouleh
– Pittsburg Steak Salad
– Salade Lyonnaise ~ Lyonnaise Salad
– Strawberry Salad
– Summer Creamy Coleslaw
and for even more salad recipes 🥗, click on this link… Recipe Category • Salads & Dressings
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Greek Tuna Pasta Salad
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Ingredients
- 1 lb. tri-color rotini pasta, cooked according to package directions
- 1 can (133 g) chunk light tuna in water, drained and flaked
- 2/3 cup cucumber, sliced and quartered
- 2/3 cup red peppers, finely diced
- 1/2 cup celery, finely diced tips & tricks
- 1/3 cup red onions, finely chopped tips & tricks
- 3/4 cup Roma tomatoes (about 2 large), seeded and finely diced
- 3/4 cup feta cheese, crumbled
- 1/3 cup black olives, sliced
- 1/2 cup Greek Salad Dressing, or to taste see Recipe
- freshly ground mixed peppercorns, to taste
- 1 tbsp. fresh chopped parsley, garnish tips & tricks
Directions
- In a large bowl, add cooked rotini pasta, tuna, cucumbers, red peppers, celery, and red onions; toss to blend.
- Add Roma tomatoes, feta cheese and black olives; gently toss again.
- Pour in a little bit of Greek salad dressing and toss before adding a little bit more if needed or until the ingredients are lightly coated; season with salt and pepper.
- Before serving, garnish with freshly chopped parsley and toss one more time to mix.
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