{
  "id": 14167452,
  "title": "WHAT’S COOKING: Tuna salad with asparagus, pear, green olives, gherkins and feta balls",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/whats-cooking-tuna-salad-with-asparagus-pear-green-olives-gherkins",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-13T09:48:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Maverick",
    "slug": "daily-maverick",
    "url": "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-10-13-food/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Tony Jackman introduces a unique green salad featuring tuna salad with asparagus, pear, green olives, gherkins, and feta balls. The salad centers around canned yellowfin tuna as the main component, paired with a medley of fresh and flavorful ingredients. The recipe calls for Mediterranean Kitchen feta balls, which were initially overlooked, but soon proved to be a perfect addition to the dish. The salad includes slim green asparagus spears, a Williams pear sliced into wedges, brined green olives stuffed with pimento paste, sweet and sour gherkins, and spring onions. A lemon juice dressing is created using oil and brine from the tuna, feta balls, and olives, combined with mayonnaise. The salad is served on a bed of cos lettuce and garnished with microgreens.",
  "summary": "It’s a green salad with attitude. Canned yellowfin tuna is the centrepiece of a green salad with zing and zest.",
  "key_points": [
    "Tuna salad salad features tuna, asparagus, pear, olives, gherkins, and feta balls",
    "Mediterranean Kitchen feta balls enhance the unique green salad",
    "Lemon juice dressing made from tuna, feta, olives, and mayonnaise"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}