Scalloped Tuna Bake combines tuna and potatoes in a creamy sauce for a simple and comforting homestyle casserole.
Scalloped Tuna Bake
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
Scalloped Tuna Bake is my recipe of the day with the blogging group Foodie Extravaganza. We get together on the first Wednesday of the month to blog on food topics related to a food holiday that occurs during the month. The host gets to choose which holiday (we take turns).
This month Wendy of the fabulous food blog A Day in the Life on the Farm has tasked us to come up with a recipe that starts from a can.
You know me. I come prepared. At least, insofar as last year when grocery shelves were going empty I bought a fair number of pantry items as I could to stock up. Just in case.
Fortunately, we didn’t suffer food outages for that long. Unless you were hunting for paper towels, toilet paper or bottled water. And a strange run on bacon.
Then again, stocking up on bacon is always the right thing to do. At least I think so. I have BLT’s for breakfast a couple times a week. Not so strange- it’s pretty much like a bacon and egg breakfast with toast. Minus the eggs.
Foodie Extravaganza
Starting with a Can
- Baked Beans Curry from Sneha’s Recipe
- Chicken Spaghetti from A Day in the Life on the Farm
- Garlicky Artichoke Pasta from Food Lust People Love
- Homemade “Better Than Canned” One-Pot Chili by Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice
- Italian Pot Roast from Making Miracles
- Pulao from Magical Ingredients
- Scalloped Tuna Bake from Palatable Pastime (You are Here!)
- Spam Musubi by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
- Ragù Bolognese from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
Scalloped Tuna Bake
Scalloped tuna bake is very much like a tuna noodle casserole, except it has potatoes in it instead of egg noodles. It uses several pantry items, including boxed potato mix, canned tuna, canned soup, and crispy shoestring potato sticks.
I find that the potato sticks stay a little crispier than chips.
You can serve this as an entree the same way you would tuna noodle. Or it can also be an extra flavorful scalloped potato side dish. Either way it is super easy to make and will be enjoyed by all.
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Scalloped Tuna Bake
Scalloped Tuna Bake
Ingredients
- 2 (6-1/2 ounces each) cans tuna packed in water, drained
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 cup diced onion
- 1/2 cup diced celery
- 1 tablespoons minced Italian parsley
- 2 cups boiling water
- 1 tablespoon melted butter
- 2/3 cup milk
- 1 (10-1/2 ounce can) condensed cream of celery soup, undiluted
- 1 (4.7 ounce) box scalloped potato mix (Betty Crocker)
- 2 cups crushed potato sticks or kettle potato chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450F.
- Spray a 2-quart baking dish with nonstick spray or grease liberally.
- Saute the onion, celery and parsley in oil in a nonstick skillet.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together the boiling water, melted butter, milk, and condensed soup.
- Scatter dehydrated potatoes in the baking dish.
- Cover with the liquid and drained tuna then stir gently.
- Place in the preheated oven and bake for 20 minutes.
- Sprinkle crushed potato sticks on top of the casserole and continue to bake for 5-10 minutes more.
Notes
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