I will admit that I have eaten less that 20 cans of tuna in my entire life.
I buy them, I store them, and eventually they get thrown out when I find they expired 2 years ago... I got to stop doing that.
I love cod fish croquettes, though, and they possibly can be made with tuna instead of fresh or frozen cod.
That is a beer batter, in which you add the fish, and then fry big spoonfuls..
Add salt and lemon as soon as it's out of the frying pan.

 

Tuna Salad:
Tuna
Mayo & Mustard to taste
chopped boiled eggs
chopped green onion
very finely chopped dill pickles
Combine and refrigerate until ready to eat

Tuna Patties
Tuna, eggs, cornmeal (prefered IMO) or bread crumbs
Lemon Pepper seasoning
Slap Yo Mama seasoning
Peanut oil/avocado oil to fry

Mix up and roll out patties like hamburgers
Fry until golden brown on both sides- enjoy hot.

 

It all depends on what you wanna eat. You can make tuna patties, tuna salad, tuna with Mac n cheese,tuna with noodles and some dehydrated veggies for a soup,tuna with rice fried in a pan with soy sauce etc. you can take a pre fab tube of biscuits, cook it on a grill or open fire, on aluminum foil, once the dough starts to brown, flip it, add the tuna...you have tuna wraps. You can use cheap soft tortilla wraps, and add Cajun seasonings with lettuce and cheese.
Or you can do a poor man's sushi.

 

First off,

Or you can do a poor man's sushi.

No, just no. 🤣


Tuna salad:
Rough chop everything (about 1/2 inch size)
Green apple
Red onion
Sharp cheddar
Quality dill pickle
Fresh or pickled jalapeno (fine dice)
Celery
Black pepper
Sour cream
Silver springs beer and brat mustard

Mix

Add drained albacore tuna and fold in. Let set for 1 hour.


Mac and cheese gets a vote from me too, I add English peas.

Patty melts! Oh my good gravy! About the only time I eat rye bread. So good!

Lastly, I did this on hunting trips. Strain the can, squeeze a packet of mustard on top. Eat. That and some ready rice and you are GtG.

 

Chunk light tuna, miracle whip, minced celery, dried minced onions, splash of rice vinegar, mix. Eat. Bread is optional or add bread crumbs for texture. There's no wrong way unless you add anchovies. Then we will have to talk.

 

a happy cat

 

2nd the tuna with Mac N Cheese…

 

Be careful that's almost $0.91/can for one time purchase.

 

I'll put it on a green salad, with cheese, like you would ham. Makes a nice change of pace.

Also a vote for putting tuna in mac salad.

 

Tuna Pasta Salad. It's one can of Tuna, 1 box of tri colored twist pasta, mayo and chopped onion. I use basil, salt and pepper for seasoning. It's a great on the go lunch meal especially during the summer. One batch can usually last me a week.

 

Tuna with mayo, sprouts, lemon pepper on a pita.

Tuna mac salad - macs with tuna, mayo, diced celery, diced onion, shredded carrot, bit of zuke relish.

Tuna noodle casserole- cook the noodles with some diced onion, add can of Tuna, can of cream of whatever soup (I usually use celery or mushroom), a handful of shredded cheese. Top with panko mixed with some butter. Bake till top is golden.

 

We did a cruise to Alaska and did an excursion with a native chef, with salmon. After she explained the differences between "canned salmon" and "wild caught salmon", as well as tasted the difference. We buy strictly those cans labeled Wild Caught.

Same goes for the tuna. After that trip, Queen bought some wild caught tuna. We opened up both cans and immediately saw a difference. Taste was so much better, too.

Nowadays, we only buy salmon or tuna thats marketed wild caught. Yes, it can be argued as to how wild they really are. I dunno. But in the taste dept, they are better. Imho.

I like tuna mixed with mayo on hamburger buns. Sometimes I'll add lettuce and or pickle.

Another vote for tuna mac n cheese. I like tuna casserole, Queen hates it.

 

We did a cruise to Alaska and did an excursion with a native chef, with salmon. After she explained the differences between "canned salmon" and "wild caught salmon", as well as tasted the difference. We buy strictly those cans labeled Wild Caught.

Same goes for the tuna. After that trip, Queen bought some wild caught tuna. We opened up both cans and immediately saw a difference. Taste was so much better, too.

Nowadays, we only buy salmon or tuna thats marketed wild caught. Yes, it can be argued as to how wild they really are. I dunno. But in the taste dept, they are better. Imho.
I like tuna mixed with mayo on hamburger buns. Sometimes I'll add lettuce and or pickle.
Another vote for tuna mac n cheese. I like tuna casserole, Queen hates it.

Most tuna is wild caught. The reason is that "ranching" tuna is very expensive (it needs LOTS of food), and they have to catch small wild tuna to raise and fatten it. It is not sustainable.

Volumes Globally
Wild tuna
5.6 Million Tons (99,9%)__
Farmed tuna
5.544 Tons (represents only 0.1% of the wild catches of wild caught tuna.

 

My favorite is tuna melt.

Forrest Gump says......
Tuna salad,
Tuna melt,
Tuna caserole,
Tuna and crackers,
Tuna sandwich,
Tuna dip,
Tuna stuffed bell peppers,
Tuna patties,
Tuna macaroni salad,
ETC

 

This list reminded me of a tuna fish dip that I came up with after eating some mullet dip from a seafood shop in Homosassa Fl. 1 can of tuna, mayo, cream cheese, liquid smoke and black pepper. Louisiana hot sauce on the side. I prefer the hickory smoke flavor, but the mesquite works also. use any cracker, toast, or chip to spread or dip into. Cheap and delicious.

 

Just yesterday made a macaroni salad with tuna,haven't had it in years.
Elbow Mac,mayo,tuna,onion,horseradish,mustard,boiled egg..just threw in what was sitting around..not a fan of celery.

 

I pretty much only make sandwiches and tuna melt sandwiches but my mom makes rolled sushi with it and spam and I like that a lot, she has also made cream tuna with cream of mushroom soup served over toast or rice, it’s ok but her sushi is my favorite

 

Tuna and Ranch dressing. Scoop it up with Ritz crackers. Tuna, Miracle Whip and Sweet Relish for a sandwich. Tuna, Avocado in the Greek flatbread from Costco. Fold it up like a taco. BTW Kirkland tuna from Costco is the best canned tuna I've bought. Mostly one big chunk of tuna.

 

@Aceoky - thanks for that recipe. I never thought of tuna burgers. We have chicken tacos for today and chicken leftovers tomorrow, then we're going to give your recipe a shot.

 

Sometimes I just eat it from the can.

One of my go-to meals is "mac and peas": take a box of your favorite mac-and-cheese kind of product, prepare almost as usual except:

• add a good amount of frozen peas to the water when the noodles are almost done cooking
• instead of adding milk or water with the seasoning packet, add an entire can of good-quality tuna in oil

It's basically as easy as mac n cheese, no worse clean-up, but it's a much more nutritionally complete meal with veggies and protein.

 

To me Ritz crackers are dry since they removed trans fat and changed recipe. The plain ones are worst. I switched to Keebler crackers.
I love celery but it uses a lot of pesticide, this I buy organic.

 

We love tuna salad, pasta salads w/tuna.

My wife hates tuna casseroles.

We've never tried fried tuna patties, and we normally have fried salmon patties.

As a matter of note, we recently tried fried mackerel patties, and it was too fishy, even with some lemon juice added into the mix.

For those frying patties, try a little old bay or cajun seasoning into the mix.

 

Yeah, mackerel you would have to soak in buttermilk or something first to remove the over fishy smell.

 

Besides basic tuna salad with mayo, there is the canned seafood mixed with a can of white beans of choice plus whatever veggies you want to add (celery and onions are usual) plus olive oil vinaigrette and maybe a little lemon juice. You can change out the tuna for salmon, shrimp, sardines, or other canned seafood.

There is also tuna noodle hotdish and tuna and rice hotdish. Also tuna melt sandwiches, basically 2 slices bread plus tuna plus cheese. Toast bread first, then microwave to melt the cheese.

Please be advised, microwave tuna at work sparingly. Tuna salads are better eaten at work if you can do it in your own space where others can’t complain.

 

This is the only Tuna I eat. There is zero waste. Do NOT throw out any of the liquid, mix it in.
I add 1 T of Helmann's and a dash of salt. Nothing further is needed. (IMO)
Really great with a fresh picked garden tomato. I used to stock tuna and not eat it.
This rarely gets anywhere near the sell by date.

 

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This is the only Tuna I eat. There is zero waste. Do NOT throw out any of the liquid, mix it in.
I add 1 T of Helmann's and a dash of salt. Nothing further is needed. (IMO)
Really great with a fresh picked garden tomato. I used to stock tuna and not eat it.
This rarely gets anywhere near the sell by date.

I got some of this a year or two ago on Amazon in a killer deal (like $1 can when you bought a case)... it's good stuff. High quality. Blows Starkist and BumbleBee out of the water. It's very dry, so yeah you have to mix the water back in - that's because they don't add any water - the water you see is what came out of the fish when it was canned.

For a while the foil bags of these were less than $1 each when you bought them by the dozen. Excellent for making a sandwich at work. (Just checked my history... I paid $10.03 for a 12 pack, they are now $45).

I've tried a number of brands over the years.

StarKist is probably the lowest quality. I got a bunch of their tuna salad kits for lunch during Covid and half the time you open it and you are picking out little chunks of ??? This was even the "solid white" and no it was not all solid white!

The Genova and Portofino are good.
The Starkist E.V.O.O. are good.

 

My favorite way to eat tuna is to open the can, and using the lid squeeze out as much oil or water as you can.
Then simply pour on soy sauce to taste and eat straight out of the can with a fork.
Clean up is simple. Wash the fork, throw the can away.

Chef Boyardee ravioli is great right out of the can too!! Don't even need to heat it.

 

I would add some grated cheese and hot sauce to the ravioli, but that's just me.

 

I like a simple tuna sandwich. I remember years ago I tried figuring out the perfect way to make it - onion powder, tad lemon juice, this that and the other thing.
I learned that it's actually very simple - open the can, squeeze out as much of the liquid as you can, then mix with mayo. That's it. Then add salt and pepper if you like.

I've always liked the Tuna Helper meals. You can also use tuna with most of the hamburger helper type meals (though I don't recommend the ones that have a tomato sauce base), though it's very easy to make from scratch.

I also make tuna patties - mix the tuna with an egg and some bread crumbs, then fry it. You can eat it like that or put it on a hamburger bun.

 

Here's something that goes back to college days:
Tuna in oil, well drained. Mix in mayo, celery salt, a little chopped pickle, onion, and spread it on a hamburger bun.
Wrap in wax paper, twist the ends to seal, and bake it until the wax paper starts to brown.
Unwrap and eat.

They don't taste the same if you don't use wax paper.

 

I came up with something at work one day,I'm sure its been done before so I didn't"invent" it,we served a lot of tuna melts.

Cut some tomatoes in 1/2,hollow out to make cups.Heat the tuna and cheese sauce in a skillet,fill cups..top with shredded cheese and bread crumbs or croutons,toast them,or broil in the oven for a few minutes.Put in the center of a bowl surround with green salad..goes good with crackers and cottage cheese or toast,whatever.