What are some creative uses for canned tuna?!
Answers: Besides tuna casserole or sandwiches...
Well..
Instant Tuna Salad Plate
For each serving, use 1 small can of oil-packed tuna. Open the can, drain it and arrange the tuna in one piece, as it comes from the can, in the center of a bed of greens. Garnish with any or some of the following: sliced avocado, quarters of hard-cooked egg, cucumber slices or sticks, cherry tomatoes, strips of red or green pepper, ripe olives, strips of pimiento, anchovy fillets, artichoke hearts, cooked asparagus spears, tiny new potatoes, cooked and tossed with vinaigrette dressing. A mound of mayo is a welcome addition.
Tuna-Stuffed Cold Tomatoes
Cut out the core of 6 tomatoes, and use a small sharp knife or scoop to remove the pulp and seeds. Sprinkle the interior of the tomatoes with salt and invert on a rack to drain. Mash a 6-ounce can of tuna. Add 2 hard-cooked eggs, chopped; 2 tablespoons capers; 1 tablespoon finely chopped parsley; 1 teaspoon finely chopped chives or scallions; 2 anchovies, mashed; and 2 tablespoons mayonnaise. Use the tuna mixture to stuff the tomatoes, piling it high. Serve on salad greens with warmed pita bread on the side. Makes 6 servings.
Tuscan Tuna and White Bean Salad Vinaigrette
Drain a 6-ounce can of tuna and a 14-ounce can of cannellini beans and combine in a bowl. Add 5 scallions, chopped; 1/4 cup olive oil; and 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar. Allow to stand for about an hour for the flavors to mingle. Season with salt and pepper. Just before serving, stir in about 1/2 cup chopped parsley.
Tuna Melt, open-face
Same idea, but split and toast an English muffin. Spread both pieces with tuna salad and top with a big slice of American or cheddar cheese. Run under the broiler until the cheese bubbles.
tuna on ritz cracker..ummm..this recipe is a tuna noodle salad..very good!
6 ounces angel hair pasta
1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
3/4 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon mayonnaise
salt and pepper to taste
6 tablespoons olive oil
1 (9 ounce) can solid white tuna packed in water, drained
2 teaspoons capers, drained
DIRECTIONS
Bring a pot of lightly salted water to boil. Add pasta, and cook until al dente, about 8 to 10 minutes. Drain, and set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk together lemon juice, mustard, and mayonnaise. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Slowly whisk in olive oil. Add tuna, separating into thick chunks. Add capers, and stir to combine. Pour pasta into tuna mixture, and stir gently to combine. Cover, and refrigerate.
tuna salad with cucumbers and romaine lettuce
I don't know how good this will taste but I've heard of people making burritos (like the beef ones) with tuna.
scrambled egg and tuna
Try cannelloni.
2 cans tuna
12 dry cannelloni
Tomato sauce
Mayonnaise
Green beans
Tomatoes
Prepare tomato sauce with olive oil, onion and canned crushed tomato.
Boil the cannelloni in salty water. Boil in vapor the green beans.
In a bowl place the the beans, add the finely cut tomatoes and mix in Modena vinegar and extra virgin olive oil, add the oregano, salt and pepper, a finely cut boiled egg, and the tuna fish cans. Add the mayonnaise and mix everything together.
Place the dozen boiled cannelloni on a board and cover them with the mix.
Roll them and place them on a oven-resistant metallic container. Cover the cannelloni with the tomato sauce and put them on the preheated oven, maximum temperature for ten minutes. Serve.
Toss it in with some macaroni and cheese and peas. Instant dinner. That is actually what I gave my kids tonight. They love it!
I have this mini food proccessor--just like a blade mixer. I put a can of tuna in there, a couple onions, celery, a little bit of mustard--blend it for a couple minutes till it's almost soupy. Take it out, mix it with a ton of mayo--it's amazing! Best tuna you'll ever eat. Tastes deli-fresh.
A good thing to do with canned tuna is to make tuna cakes. My mom always makes them. Take the tuna mix it with an egg, some bread crumbs, and fry em up in some olive oil. Delicious!
I use canned tuna in a macaroni salad....on crackers mixed with a bit of miracle whip and relish.....
This is a different sort of tuna casserole..
Tuna Jackstraws
4 oz can shoestring potatoes
1 can mushroom soup
6-7 oz can tuna, drained
2/3c evaporated milk
4 oz can nushrooms, drained
sm jar pimientoes, drained
Save 1c shoestrings for topping
combine soup, tuna & evap milk with the
shoestrings
Add mushrooms & pimientoes & top
Bake 20-25 min at 375 in a greased 1 1/2 Qt
baking dish
Serves 4
You could always get Tuna Helper
Tuna Stroganoff
/4 cup butter
1/4 cup chopped onion
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup sour cream
dash pepper
1 can (7 ounces) tuna, drained and flaked
1 can (4 ounces) mushrooms, drained
Hot cooked noodles or rice
Melt butter in skillet; sauté onion until tender. Combine soup, sour cream and pepper; add to onion. Add tuna and mushrooms; heat through. Serve tuna stroganoff over hot cooked noodles or rice.
Tuna Macaroni Salad
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme or tarragon, crumbled
3 cups macaroni, cooked, chilled
2 ribs celery, sliced
1 can (7 ounces) white tuna in water, drained and broken up
1 1/2 cups frozen peas and carrots, cooked, or 1 can, drained (approximately 15 ounces)
In a large bowl, combine mayonnaise and tarragon. Add pasta, celery, and tuna. Gently stir in peas and carrots. Cover serving plates with lettuce, if desired. Top with salad. Garnish if desired.
1 6-ounce can chunk light tuna in water, drained
1 7-ounce jar roasted red peppers, rinsed and sliced (2/3 cup), divided
1/2 cup finely chopped red onion or scallions
2 tablespoons capers, rinsed, coarsely chopped if large
2 tablespoons nonfat plain yogurt
2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 small clove garlic, crushed and peeled
1/8 teaspoon salt, or to taste
Freshly ground pepper to taste
6 ounces whole-wheat penne or rigatoni (1 3/4 cups)
Put a large pot of lightly salted water on to boil.
Combine tuna, 1/3 cup red peppers, onion (or scallions) and capers in a large bowl.
Combine yogurt, basil, oil, lemon juice, garlic, salt, pepper and the remaining 1/3 cup red peppers in a blender or food processor. Puree until smooth.
Cook pasta until just tender, 10 to 14 minutes or according to package directions. Drain and rinse under cold water. Add to the tuna mixture along with the red pepper sauce; toss to coat.
OR
Salt
1 pound penne pasta
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 cans (about 5.5 to 6 ounces each) Italian tuna in oil or water, drained well
6 large cloves garlic, finely chopped
1/2 to 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
A generous handful black olives (Gaeta, kalamata or oil-cured), pitted and chopped
3 tablespoons capers, drained
1/3 cup white vermouth or 1/2 cup dry white wine - eyeball it
1 (28-ounce) can whole or diced tomatoes (recommended: San Marzano)
A generous handful fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped
2 teaspoons lemon zest
Fresh ground black pepper
Crusty bread
Place a large pot of water over high heat and bring up to a boil. Salt the water and cook penne to al dente.
Meanwhile, heat a large skillet with 3 turns of the pan extra-virgin olive oil over medium heat. Add the garlic and red pepper flakes, cook a minute or 2, then add tuna and break it up with your spoon. Add olives and capers, cook a minute or 2 more, then add vermouth or white wine; stir and cook down a minute. If using whole tomatoes, place a colander over a bowl, crush up tomatoes with a wooden spoon, then add tomatoes and their juice to pan. Otherwise, stir in diced tomatoes and juice. Add parsley, zest and black pepper, then simmer the sauce a couple of minutes more.
Add a couple of ladles of starchy pasta-cooking water to the sauce. Drain pasta, add to the skillet and toss to coat. Serve with some nice crusty bread.
OR
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, 3 turns of the pan in a slow stream
6 cloves garlic, finely chopped
2 (6-ounce) cans Italian tuna in olive oil, drained
1/2 pint small cherry or grape tomatoes, coarsely chopped
Coarse salt and black pepper
1 pound gemelli pasta -- short braids of pasta or other short-cut pastas can be substituted, such as penne rigate, cooked to al dente in salted water
1/3 cup flat-leaf parsley, chopped, about 3 handfuls
20 leaves fresh basil leaves, shredded
Heat a large, deep skillet over medium heat. Add extra-virgin olive oil and garlic to the pan. When garlic speaks by sizzling in oil, add tuna and mash into oil with the back of a wooden spoon. Let the tuna sit in the oil 5 to 10 minutes to infuse the fish flavor into the extra-virgin olive oil and to give the tuna time to break down -- it will almost melt into the extra-virgin olive oil. Raise the flame a bit and add the coarsely chopped tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper. Heat the tomatoes through, 2 minutes, then add hot, drained pasta that has been cooked to al dente. Add parsley to the tuna and pasta and toss to combine well and evenly coat pasta. Adjust seasonings. Top pasta with shredded basil and serve
Hope that helps! Enjoy! =]
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Salad of coarse but,I like spicy canned tomato's for the dressing,and very crispy garlic toast,toaster ovens or the best or your oven.that's what I like,you can add some,curly pastas,too!spinach pasta mix in the one pound,more to keep for later, hope you like it! oh sqeeze a little lemon on top,helps with the spiced tomatos,squeeze cut side of the lemon upward so the seeds don't fall down into your salad!talk later!
This has corn flake for crunchy texture! Add cheese on top for more flavor
INGREDIENTS
1 (12 ounce) can tuna, drained and flaked
1 1/2 cups cooked rice
1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup minced fresh parsley
3/4 cup crushed cornflakes
4 tablespoons butter, melted
DIRECTIONS
In a bowl, combine the first five ingredients. Transfer to a greased shallow 1-1/2-qt. baking dish. Combine the cornflake crumbs and butter; sprinkle over the top. Bake, uncovered, at 350 degrees F for 25-30 minutes or until bubbly
I will often just add a can to fried rice.
Simple and easy, or make a fish pie.
you can wear them as earrings? thats creative.
Tuna Dip
Ingredients:
14 oz Tuna; undrained
6 oz Jalapenos; undrained
1 Onion; diced
1/2 c Mayonnaise
Cilantro
Tortilla chips
Mix tuna, jalapenos, and onion in food processer, adding mayonnaise to
desired consistency. Garnish with cilantro and serve with tortilla chips.
Tuna salad.
Tuna recipes
Tunas are a popular variety of sea fishes. Extremely succulent and delicious, they are often referred to as the meat of the sea. These can be used to make a wide variety of delicacies, including salads, soups and main courses as well as fast foods like pizzas and burgers and are a widely used ingredient both in homes as well as fine dining restaurants. Being a sea fish, the tuna is not readily available everywhere, but one can definitely buy the canned or packed varieties, which strive to maintain the natural flavors as much as possible. Canned tunas may be expensive, but are a good choice for those people who live in places where the fish is not available. Canned tuna is available in almost all parts of the world today. Now there are also ready to eat tuna curries which require just heating before it can be eaten, as well as tuna soaked in preservatives that just needs to be added to a cooked sauce to be eaten. But at the end of the day, nothing is as good as fresh tuna, straight out of the water.
Tunas can be baked, boiled, fried, grilled and even roasted. One can also have the tuna raw in a dish of sushi. It can be used as a primary ingredient or to spice up other ingredients. Experiments are on to make desserts with tuna. Whether an appetizer or a main course, a tuna is a versatile ingredient.
SALADS AND SNACKS WITH TUNA
Tuna can be a good ingredient for non vegetarian salads, especially if they are fresh. There is however no problem with using a canned tuna. One such recipe for a salad would require these ingredients.
Tuna, preferably fresh.
Finely chopped onions
Finely chopped celery
Eggs, which must be chopped after being hard- boiled.
Dill pickle relish
Mayonnaise
A bit of liquid crab boils
Creole seasoning
Method: The tuna must be boiled with a seasoning of the liquid crab boil, till the flakes are formed. Once done, the tuna must be removed and left to soak for a while, about twenty minutes before being cooled and broken.
The next step is a simple one- mix all the other ingredients with the tuna.
Season properly. The fresh tuna salad is ready.
One can always experiment with the ingredients to make new and creative salads. Some lettuce may be added to this very salad to add a zing. Adding new seasonings can always enhance the flavor.
Tuna can also be made into tea time snacks and fast foods. To make a tuna patty, the ingredients needed are:
Tuna
A small amount of chilly powder
Butter
Tabasco sauce
Finely chopped garlic
Slices of bread and
Salt to taste.
Method: Make a paste of the garlic and butter. Spread it over the bread and toast it. The bread will have delicious flavor of garlic. Melt some more butter in a pan and add the fishes with all the ingredients and stir. Spread this tuna sauce over the toasted bread and serve.
TUNA WITH VEGETABLES
Tunas can be effectively mixed with a number of vegetables to create delectable recipes.
Here is the recipe for a Mushroom and Tuna Casserole.
For these dish are required-
Water packed solid white tuna.
Mushrooms, sliced finely
Fettuccine pasta
Diced onions
Whole milk
Cream cheese
Cornstarch
Cheddar cheese that has been shredded
Butter
Salt and pepper to taste
Method: Boil the pasta in salted water.
Use a skillet to melt the butter before adding the onions for saut?.
Next goes into the skillet, the mushrooms with salt and pepper. They must be sauted till the mushrooms have turned soft and caramelized.
In a separate bowl, whisk the water drained from the tuna with cornstarch.
After the mushrooms have caramelized, its time to add the cream cheese and cook them till they have melted.
Follow with the milk and tuna water and bring to a boil.
Finally mix the cooked sauce with the tuna into small pieces.
The pasta should be boiled in salted water, drained and tossed with the sauce, to be poured in a casserole and baked for ten minutes in a preheated oven.
To be served with a garnish of cheddar cheese.
Tuna can also be mixed with vegetables to make a pie. All you need are tunas, fresh or canned, diced carrots and potatoes, peas and cheese. Cook the carrots and potatoes, mix with the tuna and peas, cover it with grated cheese and bake for about half an hour at 400F. The tuna pie is ready.
TUNA IN GRILLS AND STEAKS
Tuna steaks are a delicacy by themselves. Here are some recipes-
To make a grilled tuna steak, one needs:
Tuna steaks
Soy sauce
Lime juice
Minced ginger
Minced garlic
To make this, mix all the ingredients with the tuna and marinate for about two hours. Then put the steaks on a sprayed grill rack over hot coals. The marinade will not be required any more. About eight minutes of grilling is fine for four pieces of tuna. Garnish with lemon slices and serve.
This was a simple recipe. For one that combines more ingredients, here are the ingredients:
Peeled, deseeded and chopped tomatoes
Finely chopped green onions
Tuna steaks
De-husked and chopped tomatillos, double the number of steaks
Minced clove garlic
Finely chopped coriander or cilantro
Olive oil
Lime juice
Seeded and minced hot chilly
Olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
To make the salsa: The chopped tomatillos, chopped tomatoes, chopped green onions, garlic, olive oil, cilantro, and lime juice must be mixed and seasoned with salt and pepper. Follow with refrigeration till the fish is ready to be grilled.
For the steak: The tuna steaks should be brushed with some olive oil and boiled or grilled until cooked. To be served with the salsa.
The next recipe of grilled tuna tastes amazing with a salad and rice.
Marinade the tuna steaks with tablespoons honey mustard, olive oil, soy sauce and rice wine or white vinegar. Refrigerate. The grilling can be done for a few minutes after the steaks have been properly marinated. The steaks should retain some of their internal pink color but the skin should be charred