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Tuna and White Bean Salad

A no-cook dinner salad of canned tuna, cannellini beans, red onion, and lemon over greens.

Tuna and White Bean Salad, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
15 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$8.16

Ingredients

  • 15 oz canned chunk light tuna
  • 30 oz canned cannellini beans
  • 1 red onion
  • 5 oz spring mix salad greens
  • 10 oz cherry tomatoes
  • 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 lemon
  • 1/2 bunch fresh flat-leaf parsley
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp ground black pepper

Method

  1. Slice the red onion very thin and soak it in cold water for 5 minutes to take off the raw edge, then drain.

  2. Whisk the olive oil with the juice of both lemons, the salt, and the pepper.

  3. Drain the beans and rinse them well. Drain the tuna.

  4. Toss the beans, tuna, onion, halved cherry tomatoes, and chopped parsley with most of the dressing. Break the tuna into large flakes rather than shredding it.

  5. Dress the spring mix with the rest and spread it on a platter.

  6. Pile the tuna and bean salad over the greens and serve with bread if you like.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 10 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£20.49£5.1210 of 10 ingredients
Australia$65.28$16.3210 of 10 ingredients
Greece33,22 €8,31 €10 of 10 ingredients
Egypt‏٩٤٣٫٣٨ ج.م.‏‏٢٣٥٫٨٥ ج.م.‏10 of 10 ingredients
Spain16,83 €4,21 €10 of 10 ingredients
United States$32.65$8.169 of 10 ingredients
New Zealand$61.90$15.489 of 10 ingredients
Canada$73.50$18.389 of 10 ingredients
Germany25,76 €6,44 €9 of 10 ingredients
Mexico$789.33$197.339 of 10 ingredients
Austria€ 33,64€ 8,419 of 10 ingredients

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