Tuna Salad with Apples, Walnuts, and Tarragon

Name: Tuna Salad with Apples, Walnuts, and Tarragon
Yield: Serves 4 (Makes 2 cups, enough for 4 sandwiches)
Ingredients: 1/4 cup, finely chopped onion; 2 tablespoons, olive oil; 3 , (5-ounce) cans solid white tuna in water; 1 , apple, cored and cut into 1/2-inch pieces; 1/2 cup, walnuts, toasted and chopped coarse; 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons, mayonnaise; 1 , celery rib, minced; 1 tablespoon, minced fresh tarragon; 2 teaspoons, lemon juice; 1/2 teaspoon, sugar; 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 1/2 teaspoon, black pepper

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2015, Cook's Country TV

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Fish & Seafood

Salads

Right out of the can, tuna is chalky and bland—you need to fix those problems before your tuna salad can be any good.

SERVES4 (Makes 2 cups, enough for 4 sandwiches)

TIME20 minutes

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Tuna salad, so familiar and simple, is often watery, chalky, and/or bland. To achieve a moist and flavorful tuna salad, we first thoroughly drain chunk tuna and dry it with paper towels. We enlist the microwave to quickly cook some onions i...

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