Mexican Tuna Stuffed Avocados

Mexican Tuna Stuffed Avocados mixes tuna, black beans, fresh vegetables, lime juice and spices to create an easy snack or lunch that is also heart healthy. This works great as a lunch or dinner!

Stuffed avocados are one of my favorite lunches or snacks. These Mexican Tuna Stuffed Avocados are the perfect lunch or dinner!

Avocados are a blank canvas that pairs wonderfully with a variety of ingredients, especially Mexican inspired flavors.

These Mexican Tuna Stuffed Avocados use tuna fish mixed with black beans, tomatoes, red onion, red bell peppers, jalapeños, lime juice, cilantro and cumin to create a delicious Mexican-style tuna salad.

That tuna salad is then stuffed into each half of the avocado to create the perfect lunch or snack.

They also make a great on-the-go meal.

You can make your tuna salad ahead of time and then slice the avocado when you are ready to eat to ensure the avocado doesn’t brown.

Today’s Mexican Tuna Stuffed Avocados are in partnership with the Hass Avocado Board (HAB) and the American Heart Assocation for American Heart  month. HAB teamed up with the American Heart Association’s Healthy for Good movement designed to encourage Americans to add one more cup, 2 servings, of colorful fruits and vegetables to their diet every day.

That is a movement I can get behind. My mom has a degree in nutrition so you can imagine what our meals looked like–lots of fruits, vegetables and other healthy foods. I grew up especially loving salads and all kinds of vegetables.

These Mexican Tuna Stuffed Avocados would be the perfect way to incorporate more vegetables into your diet. Fresh avocados are a heart-healthy fruit. They provide naturally good fats, are low in saturated fat, and are cholesterol- and sodium-free.  

Avocados contain naturally good monounsaturated fat and are cholesterol free.

Naturally good fats are an important part of a healthy diet.

Avocado contributes nearly 20 vitamins, minerals and beneficial plant compounds that can enhance the nutrient quality of the diet.  Avocados act as a “nutrient booster” by helping increase the absorption of fat-soluble nutrients like vitamins A, D, K and E, from foods that are eaten with the fruit.

Not only are these Mexican Tuna Stuffed Avocados delicious, they are heart healthy.  

Have you been personally affected by heart disease? If you know someone who has suffered from heart disease, you know firsthand the importance of making healthy choices to take care of your heart. Did you know that heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the U.S.?

About 610,000 Americans die from heart disease each year. The foods we eat can have an impact on our heart health.

Mexican Tuna Stuffed Avocados are very customizable to your tastes.

You can easily add a variety of other vegetables–any bell pepper you like, sweet corn, roasted red peppers, cheese and more.

I love recipes that I can change up each time to keep things interesting and exciting.

My kids love helping me put this recipe together.

It is a great way to get them involved in the kitchen and teach them about the importance of eating healthy and being aware of what we put in our body.

Mexican Tuna Stuffed Avocados

Mexican Tuna Stuffed Avocados mixes tuna, black beans, fresh vegetables, lime juice and spices to create an easy snack or lunch that is also heart healthy.

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Course: Appetizer, Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Keyword: avocado, dinner, healthy, lunch, seafood, tuna

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Total Time: 10 minutes minutes

Servings: 6

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Author: Julia

Ingredients

• ▢ 4 fresh Hass avocados, halved, pitted, peeled and sliced
• ▢ 2 – 5 oz. cans of albacore tuna in water
• ▢ ½ cup black beans, drained and rinsed
• ▢ 1 medium tomato, diced (about 1 cup)
• ▢ ¼ cup red onion, finely chopped
• ▢ ½ red bell pepper, finely chopped {about 1/2 cup}
• ▢ 1 jalapeño, seeds removed, diced {optional}
• ▢ 2 Tbsp. fresh lime, juiced
• ▢ ¼ cup fresh cilantro, chopped
• ▢ 1 tsp. cumin
• ▢ 1/8 tsp. crushed black pepper

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Instructions

• In a medium mixing bowl combine the tuna, black beans, tomatoes, red onion, red bell pepper, jalapeño, lime juice, cilantro, cumin and pepper. Taste and add more spice to your liking.
• Cut each avocado in half and remove the pit. Using a small spoon scoop a larger hole in the middle of each avocado and add the flesh into the tuna mixture. Mix the avocado into the tuna mixture to combine.
• Use a ¼ cup measure to measure the Mexican Tuna Salad and scoop into a half of the avocado. Do this with the remaining halves of the avocado.
• Garnish with remaining cilantro

Notes

• Serving Suggestion: Serve these Mexican Tuna Stuffed Avocados for lunch or a snack. They also make a great on-the-go meal. Keep the avocados intact and the tuna salad in a sealed Tupperware container in the refrigerator. Once you are ready to eat the Mexican Tuna Stuffed Avocados slice the avocados and scoop the tuna salad into each half.

Nutrition

Serving: 1half of the Mexican Tuna Stuffed Avocado

Today’s post is sponsored by Haas avocado. As always, opinions are 100% my own.