Tuna bean salad
Try this easy packed lunch idea one day this week
- 10 minutes
- Serves 2
- 3 of 5 a day
- Kcal174
- Fat4.6g
- Salt0.8g
- Sugar6.1g
Recipe by: Charlie Farrant
| Student Dietitian and Running Blogger
Packed with protein, fibre and vitamin C, this makes an easy lunch to eat at home or eat on-the-go. Bulk it out with cooked rice or quinoa.
Suitable for young cooks
Ingredients
- 1 x 120g tinned fish, eg tuna in spring water
- 100g cucumber, chopped
- 4 tomatoes, roughly chopped
- 2 spring onions, finely chopped
- 1 x 400g can butter beans, drained and rinsed
- Small handful fresh parsley, finely chopped
- ½ tablespoon olive oil
- ½ teaspoon Dijon mustard
- ½ lemon, juice only
- Freshly ground black pepper
Method
- In a large bowl mix together the tuna, cucumber, tomatoes, spring onions, beans and parsley.
- Whisk together the olive oil, mustard and lemon juice and season with freshly ground black pepper.
- Drizzle the dressing over the salad and serve.
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