What's your favorite way to eat canned tuna?
I love using canned tuna for a quick meal, but coming up with recipes is difficult. I usually make a tuna melt (plain with some cheese) or tuna hotdish (noodles, peas, little cheese). I hate tuna salad sandwiches, which seems to be the only thing I can find. Also, I prefer to eat it hot. Cold canned tuna is weird to me.
What's your favorite way to eat the stuff?
What's your favorite way to eat the stuff?
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i can't stand tuna, but i make tuna patties for my husband. mix 1 can tuna with 1 egg, and enough bread crumbs to hold a patty together. add whatever spices you want. form into patties and pan fry.0
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I add tuna to my salad a few times a week.-1
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Have you tried the Starkist tuna creation pouches? I particularly love the sweet and spicy, hickory smoked and ranch flavors. It so delicious (and so different from canned tuna IMO), that you don't need to do much to it. I just like to put it on whole wheat crackers.0
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Mix with avocado, hard boiled egg and cherry tomatoes (halved), or any combination of the three. Sometimes I throw in a spoon of Greek Yogurt. Also add salt and pepper or cayenne pepper.
You can make a nice tuna salad with lemon, olive oil and fresh chopped basil. That is good on crackers or a bed of greens. Also, a tuna nicoise salad is nice and can be made with grilled or canned tuna, although I would probably use albacore.
Sorry, I missed that you like it hot. My mom used to make creamed tuna on toast when we were kids, but I'm pretty sure it's not too low in calories.
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I just like it with miracle whip and celery on crackers. It's one of my absolute favorite things.0
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Feed it to my cats.0
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like the cat, straight out of the can0
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Avacado, lime juice, a little salt and red onions. Plain, sandwich, with crackers.0
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Tuna Divan - arrange thawed broccoli in a baking dish. Top with drained tuna. Mix cream of chicken soup and 1/3 c. milk. Pour over tuna. Sprinkle with parmesan (or cheddar) cheese. Bake 20 minutes @ 350° I like to sprinkle it with a few chow mien noodles 5 minutes before it's done.
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I eat it straight from the can. If I cook it on the stove top long enough, it tastes like salmon.0
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tuna on toast with Avocado0
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I just ate a tuna sandwich for breakfast and was going to start a thread just like this to get some ideas for something other than tuna with mayo! Perfect timing
@lporter229 all of your suggestions (except creamed tuna) sound amazing! Now I know how I'm going to use the avocado I bought yesterday!0 -
Try Tuna Puttenensca. Rachael Ray has a pasta bake recipe. I just make the sauce and serve it over spaghetti or spaghetti squash. It can be as spicy as you like. Sounds strange tuna in pasta sauce but it is very good not fishy.
soupspiceeverythingnice.blogspot.com/2015/03/tuna-puttanesca-spaghetti-squash.html
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Next week I plan to make a penne dish with broccoli slaw, tuna, and a homemade tomato sauce. With parmesan, of course.
While cutting, I'll take 1.5 oz elbow noodles + 2.6oz pouch of tuna + 1 tablespoon reduced fat parmesan + spray butter and pair it with some fruit for lunch. It sounds like a sad meal to me now that I'm bulking, but it was one of my favorites when my macros were a lot lower.
I've never tried the pan fried tuna patties, but I definitely plan to once I'm forced to cut again.0 -
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I don't care much for canned tuna save for tuna salad in sandwiches and tuna/noodle casserole. I used canned salmon to make a bisque and chowder.0
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OP, I know you said you don't like to eat it cold, but I discovered on accident that tuna mixed in with cottage cheese is yummy! It sounds kind of gross, but I love it. It's a protein bomb!0
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mix 1/4 tsp Dijon, garlic powder and basil with the canned tuna. Eat with Olive oil and Dill Triscuits, with a chunk of avocado on each cracker.
Fiber, Protein and healthy Fat covered!0 -
I like it on a cracker with hot sauce, or mixed up with some mustard, black beans, and onions. Yum!0
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lporter229 wrote: »Mix with avocado, hard boiled egg and cherry tomatoes (halved), or any combination of the three. Sometimes I throw in a spoon of Greek Yogurt. Also add salt and pepper or cayenne pepper.
You can make a nice tuna salad with lemon, olive oil and fresh chopped basil. That is good on crackers or a bed of greens. Also, a tuna nicoise salad is nice and can be made with grilled or canned tuna, although I would probably use albacore.
Sorry, I missed that you like it hot. My mom used to make creamed tuna on toast when we were kids, but I'm pretty sure it's not too low in calories.
http://www.food.com/recipe/creamed-tuna-on-toast-21497
My mum used to make creamed tuna on toast!! (Good memory of my Mum.)0 -
I almost never buy it canned now that the flavor pouches exist. I love the spicy thai chili one and the sweet and spicy. I eat it straight from the pouch.
When I do buy plain tuna, I mix it with either plain yogurt or some cottage cheese, diced onion, diced cucumber, sometimes diced serrano pepper, sometimes diced pickles and some fresh ground pepper. I only add a dash of salt when I use the yogurt and never with the cottage cheese. Ingredients are basically up to what is on hand. I like it in a sandwich or on some crackers.0 -
2 of my favorite ways (heated preparations with cold additions): 1) +avocado, salsa, & EVOO; 2) +Balsamic vinaigrette & Coconut manna0
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Tuna salad, tuna sandwich or put it in some veggie and tomato sauce over pasta/rice.0
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Tuna cakes (like cheap crab cakes). Tuna Patties or you can make them exactly like crab cakes mixed with breadcrumbs or cooked potato. I like to top with some kind of mayo based sauce with a little heat.0
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Yuck-I eat it holding my nose.0
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I love using canned tuna for a quick meal, but coming up with recipes is difficult. I usually make a tuna melt (plain with some cheese) or tuna hotdish (noodles, peas, little cheese). I hate tuna salad sandwiches, which seems to be the only thing I can find. Also, I prefer to eat it hot. Cold canned tuna is weird to me.
What's your favorite way to eat the stuff?
They sell packs of tuna and beans, or tuna, pasta and veg. I have those sometimes for lunch at work.0 -
I like to put it in my omelet! I use one small can, one egg (whole) and 1/2 cup of spinach. If I'm feeling really inspired and I have enough fat to consume, I put a tbsp of parmesan too. It's super low carb and protein packed!0
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I like making little cakes with it. I mix it with some egg, some breadcrumbs, chili garlic sauce, and cilantro and grill the cakes
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I love these ideas!0
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