Take Tuna Salad To The Next Level With One Flavorful Addition
NEWS
BY ROBERT HAYNES-PETERSON
There's one ingredient, probably sitting in your fridge right now, that instantly transforms tuna salad: Chop up some bacon and add it to the mix for a salty, crunchy contrast.
Bacon in tuna salad brings salt, crunch, and umami flavors to enhance the creamy fat from mayonnaise or avocado, and the sour, bitter flavors from pickles and celery.
The crunch makes it great for sandwiches where bacon complements toasted bread, and its meaty, smoky, sweet, and savory flavor makes
the dish rich and complex.
Fresh-made bacon works especially well. Fry or bake it until it's approaching crispy, then dry and cool it before chopping it into small pieces and mixing it into the salad.
