The Best Tuna Salad

Name: The Best Tuna Salad
Yield: Serves 4 (Makes 2 cups, enough for 4 sandwiches)
Ingredients: 3 (5-ounce), cans solid white albacore tuna packed in water (see note); 1/4 cup, minced onion; 2 tablespoons, olive oil; 2 teaspoons, lemon juice; 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 1/2 teaspoon, black pepper; 1/2 teaspoon, sugar; 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons, mayonnaise (see note); 1 , celery rib, chopped fine

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2010

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Tuna salad sounds like a no-brainer. But a gap exists between good enough and really good-and we closed it with a surprising approach.

SERVES4 (Makes 2 cups, enough for 4 sandwiches)

TIME35 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our The Best Tuna Salad recipe, tasters preferred canned solid white tuna for its pleasant mild flavor and consistently firm flesh. We found that canned tuna is often cooked twice before shipping to eliminate bacteria, a process that dr...

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