Melt in your mouth tuna casserole recipe?

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My husband says he doesn't like 'warm tuna' but I'm convinced he'll like tuna casserole if I find the right recipe. Please only recipes you've tried yourself.





Thanks!!!Melt in your mouth tuna casserole recipe?
I made this one the other night:


1 cup of uncooked macaroni noodles (boil in salted water until al dente)


1 can of tuna in olive oil (or use tuna in water and add your own olive oil), at least 6 or 7 oz of tuna


1 can of cream of mushroom soup (Campbell's preferably, if using low sodium, add some sea salt or regular salt to the tuna mixture...not too much)


A few drops of soy sauce (low sodium or regular)


1 small sauteed yellow onion and one small red pepper (preferably sweet) also sauteed in a bit of butter


Black pepper, to taste (may also use some garlic powder or paprika if you'd like)





Mix cooked noodles and other ingredients and pour into a greased glass casserole dish. Bake at 350 for about a half hour, uncovered. Add cheddar cheese to the top, shredded or chunks, and let bake another ten minutes. Add some french fried onion rings on top of it all after cheese has melted and finish baking for five or ten minutes, until top layer of cheese and onion rings has browned. Some people mix the cheese in the tuna noodle mixture or put it on top right away and let it get really brown. Some also use bread crumbs or potato chips instead. Any variation of veggies (broccoli is especially good) is fine....you can add a bit of milk if you'd like to make the mixture creamier. Cheese and something crunchy on top is a necessity too.


Very high in fat. Total comfort food. Experiment with your favorite type of noodles.Melt in your mouth tuna casserole recipe?
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but some folks don't and never will like tuna casserole - whatever the recipe. Why don't you make other dishes you both will enjoy and if you just can't live without your casserole, make him something else on the evenings you eat it.
Here's an idea. Try this recipe with canned chicken and if he likes it, try substituting the canned tuna for the chicken. If he still likes it, then you are good to go. If he doesn't like it with the canned chicken, then he's just not a casserole person. Some are that way.





CHICKEN CASSEROLE





Egg noodles - cooked until el dente


hard boiled eggs - chopped


cream of mushroom soup - undiluted


canned chicken - drained (you can use fresh cooked)


yellow onion - chopped


frozen peas, thawed in the noodle water and drained


1 small can mushrooms - drained


black pepper to taste


bread crumbs


butter





Saute the onion in butter until tender. Add the mushrooms and saute until no water left in the skillet. Add the cream of mushroom soup - undiluted. Mix in the eggs, peas and cooked noodles. Place in casserole dish. Sprinkle with a layer of bread crumbs and dot with the butter. Bake at 350潞 for 20 - 25 minutes or until bubbly. Serve.





If he likes it, just substitute the tuna for the chicken.
Liz has got it spot on *S* I add baby peas to mine tho
This isn't hot but you could heat it. Take cooked noodles, hardboiled eggs, chopped tomatoes, onions (and anything else you like such as celery, green peppers etc.) and tuna fish (use the barracuda tuna is so much better). Mix all these together. Then add either mayonnaise or hidden valley dressing (I like to use the package dressing that you mix yourself). This makes a very good side dish or a meal in itself. This is so good.
go to www.chickenofthesea.com and search to see if the have any tuna noodle casserole recipes. i don't like it either. and i hate green bean casserole.