Roasted Red Pepper, Tuna and Bean Salad

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I ne'er understood wherefore anyone would privation to riff connected the perfect, old-fashioned tuna food crockery -- until I did it my way. I started by adding onions and celery to my mom's mayonnaise-and-lemon version; yet I ended up with this recipe, which is astir arsenic acold arsenic you tin get from a creamy tuna salad. It mixes successful beans, roasted reddish peppers, onion, celery and Mom's lemons on with a steadfast footwear of vinegar. Not meant to beryllium a sandwich stuffer, it could beryllium served arsenic a topping for crostini, connected a buffet oregon arsenic an entree with mixed greens and toasted state bread.

You tin marque the crockery a time successful beforehand if necessary, but it's champion the time it is made. After a while, the reddish doorbell capsicum becomes overpowering.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4-6 Makes 4 generous cups

One 7-ounce tin coagulated achromatic tuna packed successful water
1 3/4 cups cooked, no-salt-added Great Northern beans (one 15.5-ounce can, drained)
2 ounces saccharine onion, specified arsenic Vidalia, Maui oregon Walla Walla, chopped into 1/4-inch dice (1/3 cup)
1 mean rib celery, chopped into 1/4-inch dice (1/3 cup)
1/2 homemade oregon store-bought roasted reddish doorbell pepper, seeded and chopped into 1/4-inch dice (1/3 cup)
Juice of 2 lemons
2 tablespoons olive oil, oregon much to taste
3 tablespoons sherry vinegar, oregon much to taste
Salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 6)

Calories
160
Fat
5 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
15 g
Sodium
170 mg
Cholesterol
10 mg
Protein
13 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Tested by Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Published May 22, 2012

Updated March 14, 2026