The Jarred Ingredient You Need To Give Tuna Salad A Little Crunch

Tuna salad can go one of two ways: It can be the bland, boring lunchtime standard that you deign to eat, or a versatile staple that you can flavor to your heart's content to keep it exciting. Personally, I love a good tuna salad, but that also involves making sure it has a great balance of both flavor and texture. To add both to your tuna salad, you should reach for the jar of pickles that's lingering on your fridge door.

Chopped-up pickles are but also a briny saltiness to your tuna salad, both of which cut through the smooth sameness that can easily make tuna salad a snooze. Pickles pull double duty with their flavor additions to your otherwise boring tuna salad. Who would have thought that one humble ingredient could transform a humble lunch into a completely revamped repast? Tuna salad gets in a pickle Most tuna salads you come across are simplistic: Canned tuna is flaked into tiny pieces and mixed with mayonnaise until sufficiently creamy.



I'm yawning just thinking about it. But something as basic as tuna salad can also become a blank canvas for . Start small by adding some texture, which is where the pickles come into play.

Any pickles you prefer to keep on hand, whether kosher dill, bread and butter, or half-sour, pair well with the mild flavor of tuna salad, and each variety of pickle can spin it in its own way. Something like a kosher dill would add a tangy, herbaceous kick to a classic tuna salad, whereas a sweet pickle would a more unique juxtaposition of tastes. But when giving your tuna salad a boost, don't just chop up some pickles and call it a day.

This is a great opportunity to also experiment with seasoning mixes; barbecue-spiced tuna salad alongside some barbecue chips, perhaps? Sweet chili sauce and sriracha can be also mixed in to make a tart, spicy boom boom tuna salad, and if you can find kimchi pickles in the grocery store, all the better. Chopped celery and apples are also among , and that's only a few beginning suggestions. After all, your tuna salad is only as boring as you make it.

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