Make Tuna Salad

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Lisa Krone and I am here with Best Epicurean on behalf of expertvillage.com and today we are going to learn how to make tuna salad. This is one of my son’s favorite dishes so the first thing that I start out with is I’ve pre-toasted some bread. He likes it lightly toasted so I only toasted it for about a minute. You have a can of drained tuna. I like to use the one in water, not in oil because the oil will kind of repel the mayonnaise instead of accept the mayonnaise. I’ve already opened the can up and I like to use this kind of large glass measuring cup here so that first of all you can see what I am doing but I also have a good way to mix it up where I am not crowded, so you want to give yourself a lot of room, so I’ve used one can of tuna. I don’t really measure things out too much but for this much tuna I use a heaping tablespoon of mayonnaise. I have this little jar of mayonnaise here and I use about that much. It’s pretty heaping. We can always add more but you can’t take mayonnaise out, so you want to be careful. The next thing I love to use and this is part of my secret recipe so you can share with everyone and it is deal relish, not the sweet relish but the dill relish. It kind of taste like a pickle but what it does it gives it a nice salty little crunch to your tuna salad and if you don’t have any celery, it is a great backup plan. The other little secret that I put in my tuna salad is I love to use horseradish mustard but any sort of ground mustard would work just fine as well and I put that in. The last item that I put in is I just use a little bit of powdered garlic and I do like a little sprinkle. You don’t want to put too much in or you know if you are making it for kids, they are not going to like it. All you do is mix it up, like that and you can see that I have some nice and creamy. You don’t want it too chunky and you don’t want it too creamy because if it is too wet, it will be kind of like soggy on your sandwich. There it is, I am just going to take a little test and see what it taste like. That is delicious. I am just going to take it, put some on some bread, spread it out, close my bread and we’ve got tuna salad and that is how you make a tuna salad and how you can add it to make it into a sandwich. "