Dilled Tuna Cucumber Salad Recipes

CREAMY DILLED CUCUMBER SALAD

Steps:

• Place cucumbers in a colander over a bowl; sprinkle with salt and toss. Let stand 15 minutes. Squeeze and blot dry with paper towels., In a large bowl, combine the remaining ingredients; stir in cucumbers. Refrigerate, covered, at least 1 hour.

DILL CUCUMBER SALAD

Steps:

• Bring vinegar, sugar, water, dill, and salt to a boil in a saucepan until sugar is dissolved. Pour mixture over cucumbers in a large bowl; toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate until chilled, about 2 hours.
• Drain and discard vinegar mixture and stir sour cream into cucumbers. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

DILLED TUNA SALAD

Steps:

• In a small bowl, whisk the first eight ingredients. Stir in tuna and onion. Serve over spinach. Garnish with tomato slices.

CUCUMBER-TUNA SALAD PITAS

Steps:

• In medium bowl, mix tuna, reduced-fat mayonnaise, yogurt, cucumber, onion, dill weed and seasoning blend.
• Cut pita breads in half crosswise to form pockets. Spoon 1/4 of mixture into each pita bread half. Add lettuce and tomato.

TUNA SALAD WITH FRESH DILL

Steps:

• In a small bowl, mash tuna with juices from can. Add celery, dill, parsley, chives, mayonnaise, yogurt, and mustard; mix well.

DILLED TUNA-CUCUMBER SALAD

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients in small bowl. Mix well. Season generously with pepper. Serve salad chilled.

CREAMY DILLED CUCUMBER SALAD

Steps:

• Stir together the yogurt, garlic, lemon zest and juice, 1 teaspoon salt and a few grinds of pepper in a medium bowl until combined. Add the cucumbers, shallot, dill and mint; stir until the cucumbers are well coated. Serve sprinkled with dill and mint.

SMOKED TUNA WITH YOGURT CUCUMBER SALAD

Steps:

• Cut the tuna into thin strips or small cubes and dress very lightly with fresh lemon zest and juice; season to taste with salt and pepper.
• With a small spoon remove the seeds and cut the cucumber into "half moon" pieces. Make a dressing of yogurt and dill; season to taste with salt and pepper and toss with cucumber "half moons". Make a little pile of lemon dressed smoked tuna in the center of each dinner plate and surround it with the yogurt dressed cucumbers.

DILLED CUCUMBER SALAD

Steps:

• Halve cucumbers lengthwise. With a spoon, scoop out and discard seeds. Slice crosswise into 1/8-inch-thick pieces. Place in a colander set over a bowl, and toss with 2 teaspoons salt; let stand 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, combine yogurt, dill, vinegar, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
• Remove cucumbers from colander, and pat dry with paper towels. Add to bowl with yogurt dressing; toss to combine. Garnish with dill sprigs, if desired, and serve.

COMPOSED DILLED TUNA SALAD

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, stir together the tuna (be sure that it is very well drained), mayonnaise, lemon juice, finely chopped dill, 1 tablespoon thinly sliced green onions, and 1 teaspoon finely chopped capers. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Cover and chill until serving time.
• Make carrot curls: use a vegetable peeler to slice off thin strips of carrot; plunge the carrots into ice water to curl. Drain before using.
• For each serving, place the tuna mixture into a small rounded bowl and pack down with a rubber spatula.
• Overturn the bowl onto a salad plate and lift it away.
• Create a border with fanned cucumber slices, tuck in a few sprigs of fresh dill topped with carrot curls and slices of green onion.
• Stud the tuna salad mound with a few whole capers and sliced green onions, and top with a slice of cucumber and sprig of fresh dill.
• Serve with crisp whole wheat crackers or a baguette.

DILLED CUCUMBER SALAD

Steps:

• In a bowl whisk together the sour cream, the mayonnaise, the lime juice, the dill, and salt and pepper to taste. Score the cucumbers lengthwise with the tines of a fork, cut them crosswise into 1/8-inch-thick slices, and stir them into the dressing.

TUNA-CUCUMBER-PASTA SALAD

Steps:

• Prepare macaroni or pasta as directed on package. Combine mayonnaise, Italian dressing, mustard, and dill. Add pasta to dressing and mix well. Place vegetables and tuna in salad bowl. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Add pasta and dressing mixture and toss all ingredients gently. Refrigerate, covered, at least 4 hours before serving.
• NOTES: Good Seasons Italian salad dressing makes an easy, wonderful marinade for chicken on the grill. Place chicken pieces in Ziploc bag with ½ cup salad dressing for at least one hour. Be careful, remembering that the dressing is made with salad oil and will flare up at first as the oil ignites. It can also be used dry as a rub.
• Good Seasons salad dressing is becoming harder to find as Kraft Foods moves toward higher end premium dressings.