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Fresh berries are like the jewelry on a salad. They add needed bling, welcome sweetness and a finishing touch of beauty to a plate of greens. During spring/summer berry season, they’re practically required!
For today’s main dish salad, I started with a bed of fresh spinach (arugula would also be nice), topped with my new favorite whole grain – farro – which adds fiber and a pleasant chew, and added protein with a handy lemon and pepper seasoned canned tuna. Mixed berries on top were the crowning touch.
Today’s salad joins others in a new feature called #TheSaladBowl, and below my recipe you can see all the other inventive creations using fresh berries in salads by participating food bloggers.
Get your greens, and your bling, in one place!
Recipe: Spinach Salad with Lemon Pepper Tuna and Fresh Berries
Summary: Greens, grain and tangy tuna are topped by the season’s freshest berries for a main-dish salad with bling.
Ingredients
- 1-1/2 cups (packed) organic spinach
- ¼ cup cooked and cooled farro (or brown rice or your favorite cooked whole grain)
1 tablespoon vinaigrette dressing (your favorite)- 1 (4-ounce) can Bumble Bee Sensations® Lemon & Pepper Seasoned Tuna Medley
- Handful fresh blackberries (I used Driscoll’s blackberries)
- Handful fresh raspberries (I used Driscoll’s raspberries)
- Handful fresh blueberries
- Snipped fresh chives
Instructions
- In a wide, flat salad bowl, place spinach, sprinkle with farro and drizzle with dressing. Add tuna, keeping it in chunks for visual appeal.
- Sprinkle top with berries, and snip some fresh chives over top.
- Serves 1.
The Bee Squad
I am a member of the Bee Squad for Bumble Bee tuna. Canned tuna makes an excellent protein for main dish salads because it is already cooked and ready to deploy.
Bumble Bee sent the tuna for recipe testing; Driscoll’s provided the blackberries and raspberries for the recipe.
Source
Dorothy Reinhold / Shockingly Delicious
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Diet type: Pescatarian
Number of servings (yield): 1
Culinary tradition: USA (Nouveau)
My rating
Here are the other salads created by my fellow cooks for #TheSaladBar, a new monthly cooperative feature. Choose my berried-up tuna salad today, or one of theirs, to try for your own table! You can’t go wrong with any of these beauties.
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Interesting combination of adding tuna and berries to a salad. I’ll have to give that a try!
Yum..I think tuna sounds great with berries! Great luncheon salad. 🙂
Cathy,
You are right! This is a perfect lunch/luncheon salad! It is so elegant feeling, while still being easy to assemble.
I am intrigued by the combination of berries and tuna. It is not one that I had thought of before. I think the lemon in the tuna would really brighten up this salad. Sounds like something I will have to try!
Cynthia,
Yep, the lemon pepper flavor in the tuna really adds a spark. The berries add a pop of color and sweet flavor, but are not so sweet that it becomes cloying. Kinda perfect!
Yum! I always need more tuna recipes and this salad sounds amazing!
This is one seriously gorgeous salad.
Kim,
Thank you! I think berries really bling a dish up, don’t they?
I never tried tuna with berries. Boy, where have I been? lol! This sounds so good Dorothy!
I love this with the tuna! So often we all use chicken in salads (including my post today), so it’s great to see another protein in the mix. Great idea!
This is beautiful! I love that you used several different types of berries.
I haven’t tried the flavored tuna’s yet. But your recipe is quite enticing.
I know what I’m making for dinner!
What a great protein-packed salad! I haven’t tried farro yet; have to do so soon!
Now that looks so good with the tuna in there!!
Such an amazing entree salad, Dorothy! I’m going to look for that tuna 🙂
Liz,
Bumble Bee has a couple of flavored tunas that are really good!
Farro is my favorite grain, too! What a tasty combo, Dorothy!
Very nice post…I love the creative use of tuna here. I never think to use it other than chicken salad sandwiches, but I really should. Love the lemon pepper idea!
Lemon Pepper Tuna is a perfect protein to add to a salad. Yum!