A Jazzed Up Tuna Salad

My latest thing is that I make up a salad to have as a quick go-to lunch for the week. This week I made a jazzed up tuna salad. I had it for lunch yesterday and today, and I'm holding myself off from eating the last portion with dinner tonight. Gotta make it last! Generally, I'm not too into the tuna salad thing, but it does make for a more filling salad. Since it turned out well, I'm sharing it with you all.

Here's what I did.. this made 3 good sized salads
1 pouch of tuna (the smaller pouch)
1 cup mixed field greens
1 cup ice burg lettuce
1/2 cup alfalfa sprouts (totally optional, I love them so I added them in)
1 large carrot
5 or 6 mushrooms (again optional, but I love them)
1/3 cup grated parmesean cheese
6 small olives
2 teaspoons white wine vinegar (I had chardonnay vinegar, but your favorite is fine)
1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
1 pinch dried tarragon
2 pinches dried dill
1 garlic clove
Salt and Pepper to taste

First chop up your greens (lettuces and sprouts), as finely as desired. This is a good tip I picked up from having 'the original' Cobb Salad from the Brown Derby. Toss and place in each bowl, so you don't overfill. Works out to be about 3/4 cup of greens for each bowl. Dice the carrot and distribute in bowls. Slice mushrooms and distribute.

Next chop very finely 1 clove of garlic. You could roast it first to make it less garlicy... but I dig the full flavor.
Pitt and chop the olives intp bite sized pieces. I had an olive mix, both black and green, that had a very nice marinade.

Next open the tuna and rinse in a mesh colander or bowl. Squeeze dry.
In a bowl mix tuna with vinegar, oil, tarragon, dill, garlic and olive. Mix until all is incorporated well. Taste, add salt and pepper if needed. For me, the olives salted it enough, I did add a few turns of the black pepper.

Distribute the mixture onto salad, top with parmesean cheese. I added a handful of dried cranberries to my salad today, to get the salty-sweet thing going. The tuna flavors the salad, so need for further dressing, though I do like my salads on the dry end.

Give it a try and let me know how you like it!