Cracker and Canned Fish Salad
Made from simple ingredients - beautiful, tasty, and melts in your mouth! Cracker and canned fish salad can be adapted as you like by choosing different products: the type of fish, the kind of cheese. It takes about 20 minutes to make. To keep the crackers crunchy, serve the salad right after it’s made - layered or mixed.
Updated : 13 January, 2026
Easy
About 45 min.
Ingredients
240 grams
Canned tuna
150 grams
Crackers
50 grams
Hard cheese
2
Eggs
1
Garlic
3 tablespoon
Mayonnaise
Table
Table of volume measurements:
- teaspoon - 5 ml
- dessert spoon - 10 ml
- tablespoon - 20 ml
- glass - 200 ml
Preparation
Step 1
How do you make a salad with crackers and canned fish? First, prepare all the necessary ingredients. You can use any crackers, but salty ones are best. Mine were fish-shaped crackers. Use large eggs; if the eggs are small, take 3. Besides tuna, you can use any other canned fish you like.
Step 2
Remove the canned tuna from the can and shake off excess moisture. Mash the fish with a fork. Canned tuna is usually sold in two forms: a solid piece that you mash yourself, or salad-style flakes/chunks. Use whichever you prefer.
Step 3
Hard-boil the eggs, cool, and peel. Separate whites and yolks and grate them finely into separate bowls. Usually people use a coarse grater for whites and cheese, but it’s been tested many times: the finer the grate, the more tender and soft the salad turns out - especially layered salads.
Step 4
Grate the cheese finely as well.
Step 5
Press the garlic through a garlic press or grate it on a fine grater.
Step 6
Add 1 tsp mayonnaise and the garlic to the cheese.
Step 7
Mix well. You should get a uniform, slightly sticky mixture.
Step 8
Transfer the remaining mayonnaise to a piping bag or a regular plastic bag and snip off the tip. This makes it much easier and faster to apply mayonnaise to the layers.
Step 9
Place a serving ring (14–16 cm / about 5.5–6.3 in) on a serving plate. Make the first layer with half of the crackers and drizzle mayonnaise over them.
Step 10
Next, spread and lightly press down the grated egg whites, then drizzle with mayonnaise.
Step 11
Add the mashed canned tuna on top and cover the layer with mayonnaise.
Step 12
The next layer is the remaining crackers. You don’t have to add mayonnaise here, because the next cheese layer already contains mayonnaise.
Step 13
Spread the cheese-garlic layer over the crackers and smooth it out. Brushing with extra mayonnaise is also optional.
Step 14
Sprinkle the top with grated yolks. You can serve the salad immediately while the crackers are crunchy, or refrigerate for 30 minutes to let it soak. If you keep it longer, cover the top with plastic wrap so the yolks don’t dry out. Try not to let the wrap touch the yolks, or the whole layer may stick to it when you remove it.
Step 15
Before serving, remove the ring and decorate the salad with crackers and herbs. Enjoy!
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