Easiest Way to Prepare Tasty Tuna and White Bean Salad

Tuna and White Bean Salad. Simple tuna and white bean salad, a classic combination and so easy to make! Some items that you will almost always find well stocked in our pantry are canned beans (white beans, garbanzo, kidney) and canned tuna packed in olive oil. Purists would insist on imported Italian canned tuna fish for the Tuscan classic, but we think plain old tuna from the supermarket is just fine, too.

This Tuna and White Bean salad is mayo-free, but big on flavor. So, I came up with this easy little Tuna and White Bean Salad to solve both of those problems. StarKist's Tuna Creations® Lemon Pepper Tuna and White Bean Salad is protein-packed to get you through the day. You can cook Tuna and White Bean Salad using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Tuna and White Bean Salad

1. It's 400 g of Cannellini Beans.
2. Prepare 300 g of Albacore Tuna.
3. Prepare 10 of Anchovies.
4. It's 1 of Red Onion.
5. You need 450 g of Jar Roasted Red & Yellow Peppers.
6. It's 250 g of Cherry Tomatoes.
7. Prepare 100 g of Black Olives.
8. You need 50 g of Parsley.
9. You need 1 tbsp of Garlic Puree.
10. Prepare 2 tbsp of Olive Oil.
11. You need 1 of Juice of Lemon.
12. It's 1 tbsp of Balsamic Vinegar.
13. Prepare of #MyCookbook.

Toss red pepper, onion and beans together. Break apart tuna and mix in to bean mixture. We would recommend canned tuna packed in olive oil. Water-packed tuna still works but you'll need to add a lot of olive oil to help it come together.

Tuna and White Bean Salad step by step

1. Chop onion and place in a bowl and add olive oil, balsamic and garlic purée..
2. Chop peppers and slice tomatoes into quarters and olives into halves and add to mix..
3. Add cannellini beans together with flaked tuna and finely sliced anchovies..
4. Finally add juice of lemon and parsley and enjoy..

Flake the canned tuna into a large bowl. Add the beans, scallions, red pepper, and basil. Stir to blend, then sprinkle with lemon zest. Speaking of pants, did you notice what is sprinkled in this here tuna and white bean salad? And you didn't even turn on that oven!