Best Tuna Spinach Salad Recipes

SESAME SEARED TUNA AND SUSHI BAR SPINACH SALAD

Steps:

• Place spinach in a dry pot set over medium-high heat and cook, stirring, until it just begins to wilt, 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer into a strainer to cool.
• While spinach cools, toast white sesame seeds in a dry pan over medium heat until light golden brown. Transfer into a mortar and pestle and crush into a very coarse paste, leaving some seeds whole. Add white sugar, soy sauce, and mirin. Stir with a wooden spoon to combine and reserve.
• Transfer cooled spinach to a towel and squeeze out any excess liquid. Chop roughly and add to a mixing bowl. Add the dressing and mix well. Cover and chill thoroughly before serving.
• Mix mayonnaise, miso paste, and rice vinegar together for miso mayo sauce. Place in the refrigerator until needed.
• Lightly salt tuna steaks, and then coat all sides well with as many sesame seeds as you like, pressing them lightly as you do.
• Brush a nonstick pan with oil and place over medium heat. Sear tuna steaks in the hot pan for 30 to 45 seconds on each side, as well as each edges.
• Slice and place tuna over the miso sauce. Brush tuna with ponzu and serve with spinach salad on the side.

LARGE WHITE BEAN, TUNA AND SPINACH SALAD

Steps:

• Rinse the beans and combine with the water in a soup pot. Add the halved onion, the crushed garlic cloves, the bay leaf and the sage leaves. Bring to a gentle boil, add salt to taste, cover and boil very gently for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, or until the beans are tender (sometimes they take longer, about 2 hours; it depends in part on the age of the beans). Remove from the heat. Set a colander over a bowl and drain the beans. Discard the bay leaf, onion, garlic cloves and sage. Some of the beans will have slipped out of their skins and fallen apart, but most should be intact. The broth can be used for a soup or pasta sauce.
• Meanwhile, prepare the spinach and the dressing. Whisk together the vinegar, lemon juice, minced or puréed garlic, mustard, salt to taste and the olive oil.
• In a large bowl, gently toss together the beans and the tuna. Don't worry if some of the lima beans fall apart. Add the mint, half the chives and half the dressing and toss again. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Toss the spinach with the remaining dressing. Line a platter or wide bowl with the spinach, top with the tuna, and sprinkle the remaining chives over the top. Garnish with red onions and black olives if desired, and serve.

BABY SPINACH SALAD WITH TUNA

Steps:

• In a small bowl, whisk together yogurt, Dijon, and lemon juice; season with salt and pepper. Place dressing in a resealable plastic bag or airtight container. Place spinach, grapes, and onion, if using, in another airtight container (separate from dressing). Refrigerate, up to overnight.
• Just before serving, drain tuna, add to salad, and toss with dressing. Include flatbreads, if desired.

GREEK SPINACH SALAD WITH TUNA

Steps:

• Place spinach on large serving platter or divide evenly among four salad plates; set aside.
• Combine tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, onions and tuna in medium bowl. Add dressing; toss to coat.
• Spoon over spinach; sprinkle with cheese.

GRILLED TUNA ON SPINACH SALAD

Steps:

• For the tuna, in a small bowl combine the oil, cumin, coriander, paprika, lime peel, salt and pepper until well blended.
• Rub spice mixture on both sides of tuna steaks.
• Heat grill to medium heat.
• Grill tuna 8-10 minutes or until fish is opaque throughout, turning over once.
• Remove from grill.
• For the salad, with a whisk, mix oil, lime juice, sugar, cumin, salt and pepper until well blended.
• Add spinach, cucumber and radishes.
• Toss to coat.
• Cut fish into 1/2 inch slices.
• Arrange spinach salad on four dishes and top with fish.

GRILLED AHI TUNA & PINEAPPLE SPINACH SALAD #A1

Steps:

• Make tuna marinade-Whisk 1/4 cup olive oil (reserve the rest for vinaigrette) with the A1 and Sriracha sauces.
• Cut tuna into 16-1 1/2 inch cubes, place in zipper sealed bag, pour 2/3 cup of marinade over tuna (reserve rest to brush on pineapple later), make sure all pieces are coated, close bag and lay flat in refrigerator for 30 minutes (turn bag over after 1st 15 minutes).
• Vinaigrette for spinach-Whisk red wine vinegar, 1/2 cup olive oil, honey, lemon juice, shallots, salt & pepper until emulsified. Put to side for use later.
• Slice red onion pieces in half and separate. Put to side.
• Rub vegetable oil on grill surface with paper towel, preheat grill on high for 5 minutes.
• Use 4 metal skewers each will have 5 tuna cubes and 4 pineapple cubes when complete, starting with a piece of tuna first alternate tuna and pineapple cubes. Brush the pineapple with the remaining marinade from earlier.
• Sear kebobs 3-4 minutes on each side and remove from grill promptly. Remove from skewers as soon as they are cool enough to handle. Put to side.
• Toss spinach with vinaigrette and place on serving dish, distribute red onion slices, crumble goat cheese on top, add seared tuna & pineapple cubes, top with crumbled walnuts. Serve immediately.

FRESH SPINACH SALAD WITH SPICY TUNA

Steps:

• Drain tuna. Combine mayonnaise & pepper relish, stir into tuna. Place spinach & diced onion in the bowl and top with tuna, shredded cheese & crumbled bacon.

SPINACH SALAD WITH AHI TUNA

Steps:

• 1. In one bowl whisk the ingredients together for the sesame -ginger sauce. In another bowl whisk the ingredients for the mustard vinaigrette together. Set aside.
• 2. Rub the tuna with sesame oil. Season with salt and pepper. Sear on all sides until reached desired doneness. Slice across the grain.
• 3. Toss the spinach with the mustard vinaigrette. Plate one cup spinach on each plate. Top with Tuna. Drizzle the sesame ginger sauce over each steaks and top with scallions.

SPINACH, BROCCOLI AND TUNA SALAD

Steps:

• Rub the sides of a large wooden salad bowl with the garlic and then discard garlic.
• In the salad bowl whisk together next 5 ingredients ( oil - pepper) and then add remaining ingredients (broccoli - bacon bits).
• Toss.

NEW POTATO, TUNA & SPINACH SALAD

Steps:

• COOK THE POTATOES: Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil. Tip in the potatoes, bring back to the boil and cook for 15-20 minutes until tender.
• MAKE THE DRESSING: Whisk the pesto with the olive oil and white wine vinegar and season with salt and pepper.
• BRING IT ALL TOGETHER: Drain the potatoes and, while they are still hot, tip them into a large bowl with the spinach, peppers and dressing. Toss everything together so the heat from the potatoes gently wilts the spinach and the dressing coats all the leaves. Now add the tuna and carefully toss again to keep the tuna in fairly large flakes. Pile on to plates and serve immediately.

TUNA AND SPINACH TORTELLINI SALAD

Steps:

• In a saucepan with boiling salted water, cook pasta until tender. Drain and let cool down.
• In a salad bowl, mix all ingredients. Add salt and pepper.

GRILLED TUNA WITH WARM BABY SPINACH SALAD

Steps:

• Prepare barbecue (mdeium high heat) or preheat broiler. Cook butter in heavy large skillet over medium high heat until beginning to brown, about 3 min. Remove from heat. Add spinach and next 6 ingredients. Toss until just heated through. Season with salt and pepper. Keep warm. Meanwhile. Brush tuna with oil; sprinkle with thyme, pepper, and salt. Grill until just opaque in center (about 3 min per side). Cut into 1/2 inch slices. Mound spinach mix in center of plate and top with tuna slices.

WHITE BEAN, TUNA AND SPINACH SALAD

Steps:

• Divide the spinach, beans, tuna, cucumber, tomato and parsley between 4 serving plates.
• Combine the oil, lemon juice and pepper and pour over the salads.

PASTA SALAD WITH SPINACH AND TUNA

Steps:

• Cook pasta according to directions.
• Chop and rinse spinach.
• Drain pasta and place in a large bowl.
• Add remaining ingredients while pasta is still hot - salt and pepper to taste.
• Chill for about an hour. Remove and taste - adjust seasoning accordingly.
• Enjoy!

TUNA SPINACH SALAD

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients except for spinach and dressing. Place one cup spinach in each bowl, top with tuna mixture and sprinkle on 2 tablespoons (or to taste) dressing on each salad. For a great luncheon salad, serve with whole wheat crackers.

SPINACH & AVOCADO TUNA SALAD

Steps:

• Mix together first 5 ingredients.
• Season with garlic salt to taste.
• Serve on bread, or eat it straight out of the bowl.

GREEK SPINACH SALAD WITH TUNA

Steps:

• PLACE spinach on large serving platter or divide evenly among four salad plates; set aside.
• COMBINE tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, onions and tuna in large bowl. Add dressing; toss to coat.
• SPOON over spinach; sprinkle with cheese.

TUNA SPINACH ORZO SALAD

Steps:

• Cook orzo according to directions, reserving 1/4 cup pasta water.
• Add drained orzo to a large bowl and mix in white wine vinegar, 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice and zest, garlic.
• Gently fold in spinach and tuna - breaking up any larger pieces but not destroying it.
• Add reserved pasta water and remaining extra virgin olive oil to desired consistency. I usually use all of the pasta water and about 1/8 cup oil.
• Add dill and salt and pepper to taste.
• Fold in feta using as much or little as you like. We love the saltiness this gives the dish so I use the full 8 ounces, sometimes more.
• Enjoy for lunch or dinner. This is also great to take to work for lunch as it doesn't necessarily have to be refrigerated.

SPINACH & BROCCOLI SALAD WITH TUNA

Steps:

• Cover platter with combined spinach and broccoli slaw.
• Combine tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and tuna in large bowl. Add dressing; toss to coat. Spoon over spinach mixture.
• Top with peppers and cheese.