Orange Tuna Salad Recipe

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Orange Tuna Salad Recipe:

A simple tuna salad recipe with sweet juicy oranges, capers, creamy blue cheese and peppery watercress. Just a few ingredients in this quick salad and its ready in minutes.

See the ingredient exchanges and menu planner for some quick and easy meals ideas to serve up this great quick seafood salad recipe.

2 servings (as a main dish)

You will need 5 ingredients:

- Canned Tuna
- Navel Orange (1)
- Capers
- Blue Cheese
- Watercress

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Ingredients:

canned tuna – 1 (6 oz) can water packed – drained

navel orange – (1) peeled, sectioned
and cut into small chunks

capers – 1 tbsp

blue cheese – 1/4 cup crumbled

watercress – 3 to 4 cups washed, patted dry
and roughly torn or chopped

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In a mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients.

Note: As you cut the orange into pieces, be sure to catch the juice on the cutting board and pour over the salad. This will be the dressing.


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Quick Meals - Menu Planner:

Main Meal Ideas:

** Serve this quick tuna salad recipe in cooked puffed pastry shells with sautéed mushrooms, celery and broccoli.

** Serve this recipe for tuna salad over pasta (elbow macaroni, farfalle, spiral pasta or broken up rice noodles) with a side of scallions, water chestnuts and sweet red peppers dressed in lime juice and olive oil.



Light Meal Ideas (suitable for lunch or a light dinner):

** For a simple meal, try serving tuna salad in quartered tomatoes with baked potato chips.

** A very quick meal is to serve this orange tuna salad recipe on red leaf lettuce with marinated zucchini and yellow squash in olive oil vinaigrette.


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Ingredient Exchanges:

* Instead of Navel Orange: try Pears or Fresh or Canned Mandarin Oranges (if using canned, drizzle the juice over the salad)

* Instead of Capers: try Black or Green Olives or Chopped Pecans

* Instead of Blue Cheese: try Asiago or Goat Cheese

* Instead of Watercress: try Arugula or Napa Cabbage (roughly chopped or shredded)


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