• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Comfy Belly
menu icon
go to homepage
  • Recipes
  • Recipe Collections
  • Shopping List
  • Sign In
  • Join
  • About
  • Newsletter

search icon
Homepage link
  • Recipes
  • Recipe Collections
  • Shopping List
  • Sign In
  • Join
  • About
  • Newsletter

×
Home » Gluten-Free

Tuna Salad

Aug 14, 2014 (updated Mar 8, 2025)

Tuna Salad and Pecan Raisin Bread

I can eat summer salads year round. Here's one of the salads I've been eating this summer, especially when I need a quick protein-plus-greens fix.

I used to keep a stash of tuna and salmon cans in the back corner of my pantry for the day a major disaster hit us. I never ended up using them though—instead I eventually donated them to food drives at school and elsewhere.

Then one week this summer I ran out of protein options and grabbed a solitary can of tuna. And went to town. Mayo, pickles, honey, lemon, and so on. I did this for a week and I landed on this recipe.

The lemon honey mayonnaise is an important part of the recipe, for me, but that said, you can use this simple mayonnaise or another, and then add some lemon and honey to the tuna salad mixture with equally good results.

If you're in search of a similar salad that doesn't use mayonnaise, try my Asian chicken salad in lettuce cups.

Pickles are a great salad edition when you need a dash of saltiness to make the flavor pop a bit. I recommend my quick & east refrigerator pickles. And here's a slightly more elaborate dill pickle recipe if you're up for it.

Oh, and that bread you see in the background is my own version of this life-changing bread, pecan-raisin style.

Tuna Salad and Pickles - Comfy Belly
Tuna Salad and Pickles - Comfy Belly

This recipe is for members.

Join now

Already a member? Sign in

 

  • Facebook

Reader Interactions

Leave a reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Primary Sidebar

Erica in kitchen

Welcome! I'm Erica, a cookbook author and writer. I offer whole food, grain-free, and gluten-free recipes, tips, and more. I'm passionate about food and the human microbiome. Also, I love vegetables.

Learn more

Recent comments

  1. Beth Reed on Waffle Cones {almond flour}July 21, 2025

    I'll give chia seeds a try! Thanks!

  2. Erica on Blondies {almond butter}July 20, 2025

    Hi Daphne! Yes, use honey for SCD.

  3. DAPHNE SERWATKA on Blondies {almond butter}July 20, 2025

    This looks like a fantastic recipe! I will make it with honey since maple syrup is not SCD legal.

  4. Erica on Fluffy Pancakes {almond & coconut flour}July 18, 2025

    Hi Corina! Lovely additions and I like the swap with egg whites. Thanks for sharing all the spice additions. Cinnamon…

  5. Corina on Fluffy Pancakes {almond & coconut flour}July 18, 2025

    Thanks for the recipe, it’s delicious! I used the equivalent of 3 eggs for egg whites and had to double…

  6. Erica on Drunken Fig JamJuly 15, 2025

    Hi Mary, I just use a decent quality brandy or cognac with fruit notes such as E&J or Hennessy.

  7. Mary on Drunken Fig JamJuly 15, 2025

    Flavored brandy or just good quality plain brandy?

  8. Erica on Chocolate Zucchini Bread {coconut flour}July 13, 2025

    Hi Pamela and thank you! Cacao butter is the fat extracted from cacao beans and it's a key ingredient in…

  9. Pamela Sier on Chocolate Zucchini Bread {coconut flour}July 13, 2025

    Dear Erica, I love your recipes and have used them from both your cookbooks, SCD and COCONUT. I am strickly…

Footer

Footer

Stay in touch

  • Contact
  • Newsletter
  • About
  • Let's work together

Cookbooks

  • Cooking for the Specific Carbohydrate Diet
  • The Healthy Coconut Flour Cookbook
  • Everyday Keto Baking

Membership

  • Join
  • Account
  • Recipe Collections
  • Shopping List
Copyright © 2025 Comfy Belly | Erica Kerwien. All rights reserved.