Tuna White Bean Salad with Red Wine Vinaigrette (2024)

Recipe

You’ll love my Tuna & White Bean Salad with Red Wine vinegar dressing! It’s packed full of protein and contains tuna, white beans and fresh parsley. It’s A really healthy, low calorie lunch or dinner option, this salad is ready to eat in less than 5 Minutes!

Where does Tuna and White Bean Salad come from?

The truth is that I’m not 100% sure of the origin of this particular dish, but I do know that the combination of tuna and Cannellini Beans is a pretty classic Italian flavor combination so I’m going to give my Italian friends a nod !

Here in the USA it’s a pretty popular salad, and it’s easy to see why. Sometimes you don’t need a complex recipe to pack a great flavor punch, as long as you have quality ingredients you’re good to go!

What Ingredients do I need to make this?

This recipe is a combination of both canned beans and tuna, and fresh onion and parsley mixed together with a vinaigrette dressing.

Really you can use any canned tuna you like, but the chunkier the better so that it will hold up when you mix it. I also recommend that you rinse and drain the white beans well to remove the starchy liquid from the can.

You can swap red onions for green onions if you prefer, or if you have a mild onion like a Vidalia that will work well too.

The first step in making this salad is to drain the canned tuna, reserving the oil from the can. If you are using tuna canned in water that it totally fine, you will simply need to use bottled olive oil for the dressing instead.

Then I make sure to rinse and drain the canned white beans well before I add them to the salad, you don’t want them to be too wet when you putthem into the bowl.

Next,I simply chop up the red onion and parsley to mix in at the end. I cut my red onion into thin slices like you see in the photos, but you can finely chop it into little pieces if you prefer.

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