Healthy Tuna Pasta Salad | Easy Meal Prep & Cold Lunch Idea!

Looking for an easy, healthy, and satisfying lunch or meal prep idea? This Healthy Tuna Pasta Salad is packed with protein from tuna, eggs, and beans, making it the perfect filling dish. With colorful veggies and a creamy dressing, it’s light, fresh, and budget-friendly! Great for making ahead of time, so you’ve got a nutritious meal ready for those busy days.
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High Protein Tuna Pasta Salad recipe
Servings: 8
Diet: High Protein, Low Fat
Allergens: Celery, Dairy, Eggs, Fish, Gluten, Mustard, Sulphites

Ingredients
– 7oz (200g) Pasta
– 4 Eggs
– 1.25 cup (235g) White kidney beans, canned; drained weight
– 1 cup (200g) Cottage cheese
– 0.5 cup (115g) Greek yogurt
– 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
– 7oz (200g) Tuna, canned; drained weight
– 1 cup (180g) Sweetcorn, canned; drained weight
– 4 pickles, diced
– 3 Scallions (Spring onions), chopped
– 0.5 cup (100g) Celery, diced
– 8 Cherry tomatoes, diced
– 0.25 Cucumber, diced
– 3 tablespoon Apple cider vinegar
– 2 tablespoon Fresh dill
– 2 pinch Sea salt
– 2 pinch Ground black pepper
– 2 Garlic cloves, crushed
– 0.25 Red onion, diced

Instructions
1) Cook the pasta according to the packet instructions, around 10 minutes. Drain and rinse under cold water.
2) At the same time, boil the eggs until hard-boiled, around 10 minutes.
3) Put the beans, yogurt, cottage cheese, garlic and Dijon mustard into a food processor. Blend until smooth.
4) When the eggs have boiled, peel and chop them finely.
5) Put the bean mixture and chopped eggs into a large mixing bowl.
6) Add the tuna, sweetcorn, pickles, scallions, celery, onion, tomatoes, cucumber, cider vinegar, fresh dill, salt and pepper.
7) Give everything a really good mix.

Notes
– If you don’t love creamy dressings, you could use a honey and mustard vinaigrette instead, but this would remove a lot of the protein.
– Avoid using long pastas like spaghetti for this.
– Fresh herbs add lots of extra flavor to this and dill goes really well, but chives also work too.
– Make sure you rinse the pasta well in cold water before mixing it with the rest of the ingredients. Firstly, it cools down the pasta quickly, and it also removes excess starch from the pasta which stops it all sticking together. Make sure it is drained well too, as you don’t want a watery dressing.
– Add some diced avocado for extra creaminess.
– You can add a squeeze of lemon juice before serving to freshen it all up.
If the cottage cheese you use is high in salt, then there is no need to add extra salt.