This tuna pasta salad with bell peppers, celery, cucumbers, red onions, and olives is lightly tossed in a light, tangy, pickle-inspired creamy dressing. All the flavors and textures in this salad combine to make it a hit with everyone who tries it.
Pasta Salad with Tuna
Over the past few years, tuna fish has become one of my favorite add-ins to pasta salads in the summer. It’s a terrific protein source that we always have on hand and even better, during the warmer days of summer, there’s no involved cooking required.
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Mediterranean Tuna Pasta Salad is loaded with an abundance of Italian flavors from olives, tomatoes, tuna, and fresh parsley tossed in a tangy herb dressing. Topped with feta cheese this is a great dinner for a summer night.
Jalapeno Tuna Pasta Salad – yes, you read that right. This pasta salad is so dang good I made it two days in a row the first time I made it. Now, I double the recipe every time I make it, because my kids like it so much.
Tuna Salad with Pasta
You’ll need the following ingredients to make this recipe:
- small shell pasta
- mayonnaise
- sour cream
- dill pickle relish
- dried dill
- kosher salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- tuna fish in water
- red or yellow bell peppers
- celery
- cucumber
- sliced olives
- red onion
- fresh Italian parsley
Tuna Pasta Salad
Cook the pasta according to the directions on the package, until al dente. Drain and rinse with cold water until the pasta is cool.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together mayonnaise, sour cream, pickle relish, salt and pepper. Add the cool pasta to the bowl and stir to coat the pasta.
Add the tuna, bell peppers, olives, onion, and parsley. Stir to mix well. Serve immediately or cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Mozzarella cheese, salami, tomatoes, bell peppers, red onion, and black olives are combined with bite-size pasta and tossed in a tangy, garlicky, vinaigrette to make this Salami Pasta Salad. My boys went a little bit crazy over it the first time I made it.
Potluck Pasta Salad is filled with bell pepper, pasta, tomatoes, olives, red onion, and cheese. It is a light and tangy salad that is delicious warm, cold, or at room temperature, making it perfect for summer barbecues, weeknight dinners and lunches, potlucks, and parties.
What’s not to love about a fully loaded pasta salad filled with chewy bites of bacon and chunks of hard-boiled eggs? This creamy Bacon Pasta Salad has a bright, smoky dressing made with just a few ingredients and it’s a perfect match for the bacon and eggs.
California Spaghetti Salad is a guaranteed hit for the summer vegetable lover in your life! This amped up pasta salad is exploding with peak-freshness produce and an irresistible Parmesan dressing.
Tuna Pasta Salad
Ingredients
- 8 ounces small shell pasta
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- ½ cup sour cream
- ¾ cup dill pickle relish
- ½ teaspoon dried dill
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt adjust to taste
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 14 ounces tuna in water well-drained
- 2 red or yellow bell peppers chopped small, about 2 cups
- 1 English cucumber or 6 smaller snacking cucumbers chopped small, about 1 cup
- ½ cup celery very thinly sliced
- ⅔ cup sliced olives about (1) 3-4 ounce can
- ½ small red onion sliced very thin and chopped about ½ cup
- ¼ cup fresh Italian parsley chopped small
Instructions
- Cook the pasta according to the directions on the package, until al dente. Drain and rinse with cold water until the pasta is cool.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together mayonnaise, sour cream, pickle relish, salt and pepper. Add the cool pasta to the bowl and stir to coat the pasta.
- Add the tuna, bell peppers, cucumbers, celery, olives, onion, and parsley. Stir to mix well. Serve immediately or cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
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