What is your favorite way of eating tinned tuna?

[Smash09]

Hi,

I always buy nice tinned tuna and salmon as I think it's nutritious and good value... good for a once a week thing - however I think my family don't love it as much to eat as I do!

I'd like to try other things to do with it before I ditch it and only eat it alone

Currently all I've done for us is mixed it with mayo, pasta and sweetcorn (which I think they like more); mixed in to a tomatoey pasta bake; and put in sandwiches with cucumber and mayo.

What's your fave family meal involving tinned tuna or salmon?

Ta!!

I make

Tuna and potato soufflés.

Mix with garlic, onion, tomatoes, pepper and serve with pasta.

Spring onions, mayo and black pepper on top of a jacket potato.

Fish cakes.

My shameful secret: I eat it straight out of the tin with a fork.

I'm afraid I can't get beyond the fact that it looks and smells like cat food.

When I was little I used to love tuna and ketchup sandwiches. Clearly I was utterly strange.

It's nice in salad, with baked tatties, with a white pasta bake or in homemade pie with prawns.

You could do a past bake with it and add cheese followed by crunched crisps on top - then bake until golden -yum.

you can make a creamy pasta bake with plenty of cheese - I think this is nicer than the tomatoey version. Also, tuna quesedillas, tuna in a tomatoey sauce served with rice, tuna bolognese.... I have even seen a recipe (that I have never tried mind) that was a tuna casserole (American recipe), where it was cooked in a creamy, cheesey sauce, then baked in the oven with a crushed crisps topping (something like walkers ready salted I guess)
As for sandwiches, I love tuna mixed with finely chopped onion, grated carrot, mayo and a pinch of chilli powder with slices of avocado - yummy!

I make a tuna mornay (saute onions, make cheese sauce, add tuna, sweetcorn - and sometimes peas, red pepper and mushrooms to up the veggies -, cooked short pasta and pop in oven dish with a sprinkle of cheese on the top. Bake until golden. Yummy and DD loves it.

Tuna and mushroom noodles.

Stir fry your chopped mushrooms while soaking the noodles in hot water.
Quickly stir fry tuna until warmed through (and going very slightly crispy on the edges).
Add noodles and a slug of soy sauce. Mix well, and let the noodles get the odd little crispy bit too

(I do like my crispy bits ).

Serve with veggies or salad, or add more veggies to the stir fry, if you want.

www.mydaddycooks.com/2010/01/15/448/ This one is lovely.

I seem to eat it with cheese a lot...
tuna puffs: in puff pastry parcels with grated cheese Glaze with milk and bake about 10 mins gas 6.
and on toast or pizza base with cheese/chives/onion etc
tuna pasta

Yes, Fishcakes: We are having those today as it goes! mix a drained can of fish with stiffish left-over mash (more tuna/salmon than mash)and seasoning: form into flattened balls and roll in beaten egg then breadcrumbs, either home-made or the uncoloured ones in drums: shallow fry till crisp and golden.

Variations: add some grated cheese to the tuna/potato mix, or a sprinkle of herbs, etc. Press a cube of cheese into the centres at the flattened-ball stage so it melts as it cooks and bursts out in a golden puddle when you cut it open.

I also like these with no fish at all - just generous, strong grated cheese mixed with the potato. Yum.

I like it mixed with creme fraiche on a jacket potato, with cheese grated over the top then put in the oven so that it melts.

Or for a v.quick pasta, make a white sauce and stir the tuna through it, then pour over pasta and stir in a tin of sweetcorn. This was a student staple of mine and I still make in when I'm in need of comfort food. It tastes especially good if you eat it straight out of the saucepan with a fork

BOAK at hot tinned tuna.

OP it's very nice, and makes one can go a long way, to grate a good chunk of cucumber (and squeeze liquid out) then mix with a grated carrot and mayo. some capers and onion nice for adults too, children may make faces at that though.

I just like it mixed with a little vinegar,
in a sandwich with a bit of cuecumber, mmmmm could eat it now, last time dh had one he got a bit of the dark strong flavored fish, he spat it out claiming it tasted like sea lion

Does your DH regularly eat sealion?

Not properly read the whole thread.

My (ex)stepdad used to make a tuna bake which involved mixing tuna with a tin of cream of chicken soup (maybe condensed version?) and layering that mixture with crisps, finishing with a top layer of grated cheese and crushed crisps. Sounds weird, tasted nice though. Could add onions, sweetcorn etc to the mixture.

jux - so do I :)

I sometimes do a sort-of salade nicoise that is gorgeous. Mixed salad leaves, some cold boiled new potatoes, boiled eggs, green beans, and any other stuff you can think to throw in (sliced onion, cucumber, tomato, kidney beans etc) with tinned tuna and anchovies if you like them. Mix it all up, a bit of french dressing on top and get stuck in.

My favourite sandwich in the whole world is warm pitta bread with beetroot, tinned tuna and mayonaise. YUM.

Give it to DH to eat.

But he can only eat it (and anyother tinned fish) when I'm not in the house.

i only like tuna from M&S it is truly devine chunks of fish, and its ethical n shit.

tuna stuffed peppers

roast the peppers stuff wth tuna and herb n stuff

Oh fantastic!! Thank you so much for all the wonderful ideas. I will most likely try most of them!! Especially the roast pepper one :)

Jux - I also eat it out of the tin but I wouldn't enforce this oddity on the kids!

Neato.. going to be tuna'd up I think!

I like doing an Italian salad in summer, also good to top bruschetta as a starter.

1 x tin of cannelini beans
1 x tin of tuna
couple of chopped spring onions
Glug of nice extra virgin olive oil. Mix and season yum!

Lovely and very healthy, nice with a big crusty loaf