Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make a salad with tuna and corn? Prepare the products. Take any tuna, it will suit both in its own juice and in oil, which, by the way, can be used for salad dressing. Cucumbers are suitable salted or pickled. I took dill greens, you can take another one to taste. Sometimes onions or salad onions are added to such a salad.
Step 2:
Open the tin of canned corn carefully. Discard the corn on a sieve to drain the excess liquid. Set aside the required amount of corn in the prepared salad bowl.
Step 3:
Start cutting the rest of the products. The salad will look nice and neat if you cut all the ingredients into pieces of the same size and shape (for example, cubes). Remove the salted or pickled cucumbers from the jar and cut into small cubes. Add the sliced cucumbers to the salad bowl to the corn.
Step 4:
Boil the eggs. How to cook hard-boiled eggs? So that the eggs do not crack when cooking, put them in cold water and put them to cook on a small fire. Boil the eggs for 9 minutes after boiling, then pour cold water and cool. From a sharp temperature drop, the shell will be better cleaned. Peel them from the shell, then cut into small cubes and add to the salad.
Step 5:
Open the tin of canned tuna carefully, drain the oil or juice. Cut the tuna arbitrarily or disassemble it into fibers. Add tuna to the salad to the previously prepared ingredients.
Step 6:
Rinse fresh herbs under running cold water and dry. Then finely chop and add to the salad.
Step 7:
Add mayonnaise, salt, ground black pepper to the salad to taste and mix. Be careful with salt, mayonnaise is already salty enough, do not over-salt.
Step 8:
Ready salad with tuna and canned corn, serve immediately after its preparation. This is an independent dish that can be served for dinner or used as one of the snacks.
This salad has a number of advantages. Firstly, this salad is very quick and easy to cook. Secondly, the products for its preparation are available and can be purchased in advance. Thirdly, the salad consists of healthy ingredients - tuna, corn, eggs, fresh herbs. The only flavor in this salad can be in the form of mayonnaise - not everyone will like it. In this case, you can use tuna oil for salad dressing, replace it with sour cream or prepare your favorite dressing with a more useful composition.
It is better to prepare mayonnaise yourself. It will be tastier and healthier. See here interesting
recipes for homemade mayonnaise.
Also, as a dressing, you can use not only mayonnaise, but also sour cream or natural yogurt. They can be taken separately or mixed with mayonnaise in any proportion to your taste - this will reduce the calorie content of the dish.
Shake the can before buying. The more liquid there is in it, the smaller the fish.
How to buy canned corn correctly? Be sure to check the expiration date on the jar. If the container is glass, carefully consider the grains. They should be the same size and color, solid and spotless. The composition should not contain dyes, preservatives and flavor enhancers.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Chicken egg - 157 kcal/100g
- Egg white - 45 kcal/100g
- Egg powder - 542 kcal/100g
- Egg yolk - 352 kcal/100g
- Ostrich egg - 118 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Dill greens - 38 kcal/100g
- Salad mayonnaise of 50% fat content - 502 kcal/100g
- Light mayonnaise - 260 kcal/100g
- Provencal Mayonnaise - 624 kcal/100g
- Provencal mayonnaise - 627 kcal/100g
- Table mayonnaise - 627 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Pickled cucumbers - 16 kcal/100g
- Canned sweet corn - 79 kcal/100g
- Canned tuna in its own juice - 96 kcal/100g
