Avocado Filled Canned Tuna Ceviche Salad is a lighter lunch option that’s full of nutrients and flavor. I received free samples of Chicken of the Sea® Chunk Light Tuna in Water for the purpose of this post and created this simple, healthy, and low calorie lunch recipe.
How many times have you been working on a project and didn’t want to take time to step out for lunch? Or, you’re trying to eat healthier and need a nutritious, filling lunch? Or, maybe your goal is to save money so you’re cutting out high-priced fast food for lunch? I have the perfect solution for all of these dilemmas: Avocado Filled Canned Tuna Ceviche Salad.
My Avocado Filled Canned Tuna Ceviche Salad recipe is light, low calories, economical, and easy to make. Actually, you can make it right at your desk and enjoy it while you keep working. I like Chicken of the Sea Chunk Light in water. It’s a convenient meal option. Additionally, it’s 99% fat free and high in protein.
I’m a firm believer in simple, delicious, and healthy lunches. Chicken of the Sea products fit so well into this concept. What about you? What great Chicken of the Sea products do you like? Do you have a great Chicken of the Sea recipe? If so, I urge you to enter in The Best of the Sea Challenge: A World Tuna Day Recipe Contest. The grand prize winner receives a trip for two to Fiji!! I sure wish I could enter! You can enter the contest here or on the Chicken of the Sea’s facebook page. (For complete contest details visit Chicken of the Sea.)
Also, you may like my Asian Tilapia Lettuce Wraps.
Avocado Filled Canned Tuna Ceviche Salad
Prep
Total
Yield 2 servings
Avocado Filled Canned Tuna Ceviche Salad a lighter lunch option that's full of nutrients and flavor. It's a simple, healthy, and low calorie lunch recipe.
Ingredients
- 2 avocados
- 1-12 ounce can Chicken of the Sea® Chunk Light Tuna in Water, drained
- 1/3 cup garbanzo beans, drained
- 2 tablespoons minced red onion
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 Roma tomato, seeded and diced
- 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh or pickled jalapeno
- salt and pepper to taste
- juice and zest of 1 lime
Instructions
- To a small bowl, add tuna, tomato, cilantro, jalapeno, onion, and garbanzo beans.
- Carefully stir in oil and lemon zest.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Slice open the avocados and take the seeds out. Squeeze lime juice over the avocados.
- Evenly fill avocados with your salad mixture and enjoy.
Courses Lunch
I worked with Chicken of the Sea with the creation of this post. All opinions are my own.
THIS IS MY KINDA MEAL – FO SHO! I adore canned tuna – and not too many people do, but that’s cause they don’t think outside of the MAYO JAR! 😉