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How to Make a Tuna Melt

4

25 min

How to Make a Tuna Melt

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Category

Fish Recipes

Time

25 min

Serving

2 persons

Calories

594

Rating

4.00★ (104)

Cuisine

Author: Victoria Buriak
This tuna melt recipe is dedicated to all those chefs who tell you to never, ever mix fish and cheese together; and yet there they are, at the diner at 2:00 in the morning. And you know what they eat? Tuna melts. And the reason they do is because they are delicious.

Ingredients

  • oil-packed tuna: 1 jar (6.5 ounce jar, drained)
  • celery: 2 Tbsp (finely diced)
  • green onion: 1 Tbsp (minced)
  • capers: 2 tsp (drained)
  • mayonnaise: 2 Tbsp (to taste)
  • Asian Chili paste (such as sambal oelek): 1 tsp
  • mozzarella cheese: 0.33333 cup (fresh)
  • salt and ground black pepper: 0 piece (to taste)
  • butter: 2 Tbsp (divided, softened)
  • French bread: 2 thick slices
  • sharp white Cheddar cheese: 0.25 cup (divided, shredded)
  • cayenne pepper: 1 pinch (to taste)

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  1. Place tuna into a mixing bowl and lightly break it apart with a fork. Add celery, green onion, capers, mayonnaise, and chile paste. Pinch in small pieces mozzarella and stir to mix. Season with salt and black pepper; refrigerate tuna salad until needed.
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  2. Preheat the oven's broiler. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
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  3. Spread butter generously on both sides of French bread slices.
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  4. Broil buttered bread until golden brown on top, 2 to 3 minutes. Flip bread slices and broil other side until toasted, 2 to 3 more minutes. Remove from the oven and turn bread slices over on the baking sheet so the darkest sides are on the bottom.
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  5. Gently spread tuna salad onto bread slices using 2 forks. Press the salad onto the bread and spread tuna all the way to the edges of the bread. Spread shredded Cheddar over each sandwich. Dust tops with cayenne pepper.
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  6. Place sandwiches under the broiler and cook until cheese is melted and bubbling, 5 to 6 minutes.
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