These Dill Tuna Salad Cucumber Boats will liven up your tuna salad and add a little fun and dill pickle flavor! This nutritious gluten-free meal can be prepared in a matter of minutes, making it a convenient and quick lunch option.
Greetings from your new gluten-free, quick, simple, and healthful meal! Not only are our Dill Tuna Salad Cucumber Boats perfect for the Lenten season, but they’ve also quickly become a favorite lunch option in our household. This 10-minute tuna salad is filled with dill and has a hint of sharpness. It’s served in a colorful cucumber boat that kids will enjoy!
Ingredients Needed
- English cucumbers are ideal for boating since they are not only long and thin but also have fewer seeds and are typically a little tougher than regular cucumbers.
- Tuna: Although we used to restrict our daughters’ intake of tuna, we’ve been introducing this dill tuna salad to their lunches much more frequently after discovering the Safe Catch brand, which is sustainably sourced tuna with the lowest Mercury levels!
- Any creamy tuna salad needs mayonnaise, right? Have you yet to create your own?
- Celery with Red Onion: The red onion adds a little spice and some extra crunch. After all, what would be a tuna salad without some onion and celery?
- Just enough apple cider vinegar to impart the perfect amount of acidity.
- Fresh Dill: When combined with the vinegar, this gives the tuna a taste reminiscent to dill pickles!
- The perfect amount of salt, pepper, and garlic powder to bring everything together.
Easy to Make
Is it any simpler than combining everything in a bowl and stirring? One of the wonderful things about tuna salad is that it can be made with very little ingredients.
What makes this dish the “hardest”? All you have to do is slice them in half and remove the seeds to make your cucumber boats.
The greatest cucumbers are English or Japanese cucumbers since they are the firmest and crunchiest, making them ideal for a tuna salad boat. They also contain the fewest seeds!
After that, assembly is all that’s left to do—just a quick scoop into your boats. And lunch is served—a simple, gluten-free, healthful dish! Tuna Salad Cucumber Boats with Dill! We use our daughters as the real test for all of our recipes; if they adore it, then we know it is a winner, and this dish passes that test with flying colors. It’s a really quick and simple meal that my daughters adore, and I do too! These Dill Tuna Salad Cucumber Boats are going to be a new favorite—they’re ready in ten minutes and quickly devoured.
FAQs
How many cucumber boats does this make?
You can obtain approximately 4 boats or 4 quarters of cucumber if you’re generous with the tuna. However, you may extend it to fit two cucumbers or eight boats in total.
Can I use dried dill?
Of course. For every two tablespoons of fresh dill, use simply two teaspoons of dried dill.
What else can I add?
You can add avocado or spinach to this, just like you can with some of our other favorite tuna salad recipes!
Can I use another vinegar?
Naturally, we choose apple cider vinegar over other varieties due to its gentler taste and somewhat sweeter flavor.
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Dill Tuna Salad Cucumber Boats
Ingredients
- 1-2 English cucumbers
- 5 oz tuna drained
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons red onion diced
- 1/4 cup celery diced
- 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
- 2 Teaspoons fresh dill
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 – 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt to taste
- fresh ground pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cut cucumbers in half. Scoop out the cucumber seeds with a tiny spoon to form a boat.
- In a medium-sized bowl, combine all the ingredients (excluding salt) and well mix. Adjust the salt to taste, as the salinity of tuna and mayo varies.
- After filling the cucumber boats with tuna salad, serve!
Notes
- Onion: Swap the red with a yellow or white onion.
- Dill: Instead of using fresh dill, use 1/2 teaspoon of dried dill.
- White vinegar can be substituted for apple cider.