We love this healthy tuna pasta salad recipe for so many reasons. It’s kidney-friendly, ready in a little over 30 minutes and the ingredients are probably already in your kitchen. The lemon and thyme in this recipe give the tuna pasta salad a little zest, a lot of flavor, and makes it oh-so-satisfying. If you’re on a special renal diet, including CKD stages 1 and 2, dialysis and CKD Stage 5, transplant, or diabetic, you can lick the tuna pasta salad bowl clean and feel good about it! Now, let’s get cooking!
Tuna Pasta Salad Ingredients
Serves One
- 2 TBSP thyme (dried or fresh)
- 4 tsp chives (chopped)
- 4 oz pasta (dry, preferably ziti or elbows)
- 1 pouch albacore white tuna (low sodium, packed in water)
- ⅛ tsp ground black pepper
- 1 tsp canola oil (olive oil works, too)
- ⅛ tsp garlic (fresh or granulated)
- 1½ tsp dijon mustard
- ⅛ tsp dry mustard
- 2 TBSP lemon juice (we love fresh-squeezed lemon juice)
How to Make Tuna Pasta Salad
- Cook pasta according to directions (one minute less for al dente)
- Rinse pasta and place in refrigerator to cool for about 10 minutes
- While pasta is cooling, drain the tuna
- In a separate bowl, mix all of the ingredients together (except pasta and tuna)
- Add pasta and tuna to the mixture, stir and serve
Note: This recipe is low calorie, low cholesterol, low fat, low phosphorous, low potassium, low sodium, dairy free, nut free, halal and kosher.
Tuna Pasta Salad Nutrition Facts
(per serving)
| Calories | 291 |
| Carbohydrates | 45.8 g |
| Protein | 17.4 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 3.1 g |
| Total Fat | 3.9 g |
| Sodium | 113.5 mg |
| Potassium | 268.7 mg |
| Phosphorus | 181.1 mg |
We love sharing our kidney-healthy recipes with you like this dinner for one tuna pasta salad with lemon and thyme! So, if you’re craving a favorite food, but it’s not on your diet, please let us know. We’ll look into it and try to add it to our list of upcoming recipe blogs. For more kidney-healthy recipes, visit our blog.
Source: https://www.kidney.org/recipes/lemon-thyme-starkist-tuna-pasta-salad
About Shree Mulay, MD
Shree Mulay, MD, is a nephrologist and co-owner of The Kidney Experts. He went to medical school at Mahatma Gandhi Mission Medical College and completed his residency at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. Shree manages patients at several West Tennessee Healthcare Hospital locations and serves at numerous dialysis locations across the region. He also sees patients at four kidney care clinic locations. Funny, caring and always wanting to help, Shree is passionate about his practice and devotes much of his time to his patients.
Kidney-Friendly Recipes from The Kidney Experts
One of the goals we have at The Kidney Experts is to make sure you have the resources you need to help you on your kidney health journey. Questions we are asked all the time include, “What can I eat with kidney disease,” “What foods should I avoid with kidney disease,” and “Where can I find good kidney disease diet recipes?” These are excellent questions. Challenge accepted!
Truth time! Chefs, we are not… so we consistently scour websites known for their kidney-healthy recipes. Our focus is to find kidney-friendly recipes that are healthy, easy to make, satisfying, and that have that mouthwatering taste factor. Each week, we post a new recipe that we can share with you.
Here is a list of our most recent kidney-friendly recipes:
- 1-Minute Breakfast: Quick and Easy Omelet
- Healthy Tuna Pasta Salad with Lemon and Thyme
- Beet Vegetarian Reuben Sandwich
- Kidney-Friendly Apple Fritter Donuts
- Crunchy Asian Coleslaw
- Grilled Sesame Chicken
- Kidney-Healthy Mushroom Soup
- Easy Turkey Breakfast Burritos
- Southern-style Cornbread
- 60-second Salsa
For more kidney-friendly recipes, pop over to The Kidney Experts Twitter account as we love to retweet recipes from some of the best names in kidney health.
