Best Tuna Salad Pepper Cups Recipes

KETO TUNA SALAD CUPS

Steps:

• Cover the eggs with about an inch of water in a medium pot. Bring to a boil, remove from the heat, cover and let stand for 8 minutes. Drain and submerge in ice water. When cool enough to handle, peel the eggs and chop.
• Meanwhile, cook the bacon in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat until golden and crisp, about 4 minutes per side. Remove to a paper towel-lined plate. Crumble into bite-size pieces.
• Whisk together the mayonnaise, sour cream, lemon zest and juice, celery, reserved tuna oil, three-quarters of the scallions, 1/4 teaspoon salt and several grinds of pepper in a medium bowl. Add the tuna and three-quarters of the bacon and egg and gently fold together (do not overmix). Season with additional salt and pepper if needed.
• Sprinkle the tomato slices with salt and pepper.
• Double-up the lettuce leaves and fill each with some tuna salad. Tuck in a tomato slice. Sprinkle with reserved scallions, bacon and egg.

CRISPY WONTON CUPS WITH TUNA SALAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Coat a 12-cup mini muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray.
• Place 1 wonton wrapper into each cup. Press the wontons into the cups with your fingers and spray each wrapper with cooking spray. Bake until they are golden brown, 5 to 6 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool.
• Slice 1/2-inch thick slice from the onion and cut into thirds (reserve the remaining onion for Round 2 Recipe Nicoise Salad with Lemon Garlic Vinaigrette and the Online Round 2 Recipe Ham and Cheese Breakfast Burrito). Into the bowl of a mini food processor, add the onion, ginger, brown mustard, red wine vinegar, crushed red pepper, canola oil, salt, and pepper, and pulse until combined. (If you do not have a mini food processor, finely chop the onion and ginger and whisk together with mustard, vinegar, oil and red pepper flakes.) Place into a bowl with the tuna. Thinly slice 1/2 cup of the snow peas (reserve remaining 1 cup snow peas for Round 2 Recipe Nicoise Salad with Lemon Garlic Vinaigrette) and stir to combine.
• Fill each wonton cup with the tuna salad, transfer to a serving platter, and serve immediately.

TUNA SALAD WITH HOT AND SWEET PEPPERS

Steps:

• Toss the pepper and the chile with the vinegar and a big pinch of salt in a large bowl. Let sit for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, cut the celery into 1/4-inch dice.
• Add the celery, tuna with all of its oil and chopped parsley to the peppers. Toss until the tuna flakes into bite-size pieces and everything is well mixed, then season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve immediately or refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 2 days.

CRUNCHY TUNA SALAD IN PEPPER CUPS

Steps:

• Sprinkle gelatin over water to soften, let stand 5 minutes.
• Pour consommé into medium saucepan.
• Cut peppers in half crosswise to form shells, remove core and seeds carefully.
• Bring consommé to boil, add pepper shells cut side up.
• Cover and boil 3 minutes.
• Remove shells, turn upside down on paper towel, to drain, then refrigerate.
• Bring consommé back to boiling, add onion and boil 30 seconds.
• Stir in gelatin until it dissolves.
• Pour into a bowl.
• Refrigerate until partially set.
• Fold in tuna, tomatoes, chopped lettuce, lemon peel, lemon juice, salt and pepper.
• Spoon into pepper shells, piling high.
• Refrigerate at least 4 hours until set.
• Place each pepper on a lettuce leaf at serving time.
• Garnish with a dollop of sour cream.