I am a big fan of tuna fish. I enjoy having it as a sandwich, eating it on a salad and, my favorite, eating it out of the can. It has to be in water though. I'm not fully opposed to tuna in oil, but water tastes so much better to me. I prefer it that way.

I'm not the biggest fan of mayo, but I will eat it in tuna salad. I usually only put a tablespoon worth of mayo too. That is more than enough. And I usually plus it up a bit. I like to add chipotle juice if it is available. I will sometimes replace the mayo with some fancy mustard I have in the house. I am a big mustard fan so I usually have a few bottles in the fridge. I am a big fan of the dill mustard my mom recently gave me added to tuna.

I like to add crunch to my tuna. Sometimes it is celery or relish, other times I have used almonds. It is all good. Recently I had it with hard boiled eggs, and that was dynamite. I have seen some people putting avocado in there, and since I have just discovered avocado toast, I'm sure I would love it, I just haven't tried it yet.

What I have tried recently, what I really like, which I also found on a cooking website, was adding soy sauce to tuna salad. The recipe I first read called for mayo, salt, pepper and soy sauce. It is truly that simple. So I tried it. But before I did, I read a little more about why this was a "new" thing. What I found most commonly referenced in every article I read was adding soy to sushi, which I love. I do it all the time and my favorite sushi is a spicy tuna roll. A spicy tuna roll with some soy and wasabi is the best. I will, and have, eaten multiple spicy tuna rolls by myself. That is far too much sushi, but it is damn delicious. After seeing that as the most commonly referred to thing with soy in tuna salad, I was ready to give it a go. I did the simple recipe I mentioned above and my goodness did it open up a whole new world of flavors. The soy kept the tuna salad, and I am not a fan of this word, moist. Not that mayo doesn't do that, but it is more gloopy. The addition of soy sauce makes it taste fresher. It makes me feel a bit more sushi like. The recipe also mentions just a pinch of salt because soy sauce obviously has salt in it. It is like the perfect balance of salt when you add the soy sauce to tuna salad. If you like salt you can add more. But I did the pinch of salt with a few tablespoons of soy sauce and it was wonderful. It was all the salt I could want. The soy, for me, also brings out a better flavor in tuna salad. I said before, it feels akin to sushi. It makes the tuna taste better to me. It heightens the other stuff that you put in tuna salad. Soy sauce just makes it better, for me. Lately I have even tried some extra stuff with the soy sauce in tuna salad. I haven't crossed the mustard and soy river, and don't know that I ever will. But I have added the crunch and it rules. I have used chipotle tabasco, and the spice makes it so much better if I am looking for a little heat. Using relish and soy is surprisingly tasty. I have been, quite frankly, astonished at how much I have enjoyed tuna salad mixed with mayo and soy. It is so, so, so good.

I do not know if 'I will go back to just straight up mayo as the dressing for my tuna salad. I will use just mustard and no soy, but if mayo is in the picture, soy will for sure be added. I know it may sound weird, but try it. I think you will fall in love with it just like I did. Soy sauce in tuna salad is a game changer. Trust me.

Ty

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