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Tuna and White Bean Salad with Parsley

Tins and a lemon. Beans crushed a little so the dressing clings, tuna in large flakes, plenty of parsley.

Tuna and White Bean Salad with Parsley. Tins and a lemon. Beans crushed a little so the dressing clings, tuna in large flakes, plenty of parsley.
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Prep 10 minServes 2

Ingredients

Why metric?

Metric avoids regional spoon ambiguity. US uses 5 mL tsp, 15 mL tbsp and 240 mL cup. Small masses stay in grams unless a verified recipe conversion exists. More on measurements

  • 2 tins tuna in springwater, drained (280 g)
  • 400 g canned no-added-salt cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
  • 200 g cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 200 g cucumber, diced
  • 100 g carrot, coarsely grated
  • 20 g flat-leaf parsley, chopped
  • 20 ml lemon juice (20 g)
  • 25 ml extra-virgin olive oil (23 g)
  • 2 slices wholegrain bread (80 g), to serve
  • Ground black pepper, to taste

Method

  1. Tip the beans into a bowl and crush about a third of them against the side with a fork. The crushed ones thicken the dressing so it clings rather than pooling.
  2. Add the tomatoes, cucumber, carrot, oil, lemon juice and plenty of pepper and turn it over.
  3. Fold the tuna through in large flakes at the end, turning twice rather than stirring it to shreds.
  4. Stir the parsley through and serve with the bread.

Serve

No salt is added: the tuna brings plenty. Tomato and citrus are both here and both are commonly reported triggers — if either is one of yours, leave it out and use a spoonful of the bean liquid, reserved before draining, with more parsley.

Safety and storage

Keeps
3 days refrigerated below 5°C
Reheat to
steaming hot, at least 75°C

Cool it fast: split large amounts into shallow containers as soon as it stops steaming, and have it in the fridge within two hours. Reheat once only, until steaming hot right through, at least 75°C in the centre.

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