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Lemon tuna salad lettuce cups

Canned tuna mixed with Greek yogurt, lemon, mustard, celery and avocado, spooned into crisp romaine leaves.

Lemon tuna salad lettuce cups

Quick Budget High protein

Prep
8 min

Per serving

362 kcal

Protein
43 g
Carbs
17 g
Fat
16 g
Fibre
9 g

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Ingredients

5 servings

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  • Avocado 400 g
  • Plain Greek yogurt (2%) 300 g ≈ 1 ¼ cups
  • Lemon juice 5 ½ tbsp 80 g
  • Mustard 3 ½ tbsp 50 g
  • Canned light tuna in water, drained, drained 850 g
  • Celery, finely diced 250 g ≈ 2 ½ cups
  • Black pepper 1 ½ tsp
  • Romaine lettuce 600 g

Steps

  1. Mash the avocado in a bowl with the Greek yogurt, lemon juice and mustard.
  2. Add the tuna, celery and pepper and mix with a fork, flaking the tuna.
  3. Wash and dry the romaine leaves.
  4. Spoon the tuna salad into the leaves and eat them like tacos.

Tip: Choose light tuna rather than white albacore; it is lower in mercury.

No pork or alcohol. Choose halal meat if you eat halal. Nutrition is worked out from USDA FoodData Central values and is an estimate.