The Secret Ingredient You Should Be Using In Your Tuna Salad

Some people might find tuna salad a little on the boring side  but others consider it to be the ultimate comfort food. And if you’re a member of Team Tuna, you might be interested to learn that there’s a secret ingredient that will improve your tuna salad every time so much so that even tuna-haters might finally rethink their stance on this classic dish. 

So what is this magic ingredient? Sugar. Yeah, really. A few years ago, an editor for HuffPost found a recipe for tuna salad in an issue of Cook’s Country magazine that included sugar so they decided to give it a try. What HuffPost found was that just half a teaspoon of sugar for three five-ounce cans of tuna could work wonders when it came to making tuna a little less fishy-tasting. For what it’s worth, the more widely-known trick of adding sweet pickle relish to tuna salad works along these same lines.

And sure, you might think that combining sugar and fish sounds kinda gross, but it’s not like it hasn’t been done before. Take snacks such as Tazukuri, for example, which are Japanese candied sardines. Or the Filipino sweet adobo pusit, made with squid, soy sauce, and sugar. Sugared fish is a thing in Europe as well one of the most popular methods of preparing gravlax in Sweden involves using a blend of sugar and salt. Even America’s Test Kitchen suggest using sugar to brown your pan-roasted fish.

Keep watching the video to learn more about the secret ingredient you should be using in your tuna salad!

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