Matthew Mcconaughey’s Tuna Salad Slays

Plus! Bonus tuna salad recipe. 

Have you seen Matthew McConaughey’s tuna salad recipe on TikTok? I gave it a try and it slays. So good. Here it is: 

Recipe: 

Tuna

• Vinegar 
• Lemon juice
• Mayonnaise 
• Wasabi 
• Red onion 
• Corn
• Chopped apple
• Gherkins  
• Jalapeno crispies 
• Frozen peas 
• Agave 

Directions: 

Mix it all together. How much, you ask? I dunno. To taste. This is tuna salad, not a souffle. Mr. McConaughey did note to “watch how much vinegar and lemon juice you add,” – so, you know – watch it. 

But also – he starts this by saying that every Sunday night he cleans out the fridge to make this. So I think what he’s saying is that it’s always a little different. So think about that and mix things up a little. 

Want a bonus tuna salad recipe? This is my go-to and I still super dig it even since being left dazed and confused after trying the above salad. 

Bonus Recipe: 

• Tuna
• Hellman’s Mayonnaise 
• Mt. Olive no sugar added sweet relish – kind of a lot of it. Don’t be shy with the relish. 

Feeling bold and want to mix it up? I like to use the tuna packets with jalapeno. 

Directions: 

Mix it all together. 

The story: 

You guys might have come across the Matthew McConaughey tuna salad recipe on TikToc like all the commoners, but I had it hand made and delivered to me by Matthew McConaughey*, who made it for me himself. Matthew and I are very close – basically besties. We live across the street from one another. Our kids are the same age and play together all the time. We vacation together, celebrate holidays together and watch sports on tv together. Oh, how I love sports. Especially on TV. 

I was traveling for work several weeks ago and Matthew sent me some really gross links to old jello mold recipes from the 70s that included Miracle Whip. The first recipe was vile. The second made me wholeheartedly believe that Kraft deserved to go out of business for such crimes against the palate. (Maybe one day, I will share my feelings on Miracle Whip.) 

Anywhoooo, like I said – I was traveling for work and Matthew had been sending me gross jello mold recipes. The day I was returning home, he asked if I had tried this tuna salad. I hadn’t. I was out of the loop. I assumed it was something gross due to the earlier Miracle Whip/jello blasphemy (gag). Matthew said that he was leaving some of it in my fridge for me to try when I got home.

The McConaughey family and I play pranks on each other fairly frequently. Surprise Christmas inflatables in one another’s yard, tiny swan figurines hidden around their house in bulk, etc. But to go to the trouble of making a gross tuna salad? It didn’t really track. “Wait – is this a real recipe or another jello mold,” I asked. Matthew assured me it was real and also really amazing. 

I got home late that night – hungry and tired. I was pretty excited to open my fridge and see a whole dish of tuna salad. I pulled out some crackers and dug right in. It was just as good as promised. 

So there it is: the story of how I tried Matthew McConaughey’s** tuna salad, made by Matthew himself. 

*To make this story true, replace each reference of Matthew / Matthew McConaughey with Melanie (my actual neighbor), plus adjust pronouns accordingly. 

**Except for this one – this one should remain as Matthew McConaughey.