Tea Room Tuna Salad Plate is a retro lunchroom plating of a tuna stuffed tomato, pasta salad, eggs, pickles and cheese.

Tea Room Tuna Salad Plate

By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime

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Tea Room Tuna Salad Plate is my recipe of the day with the Fish Friday blogging group. We post monthly on the third Friday. The topics change each month.

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Shortcut Seafood is this month’s topic. And we are sharing recipes using canned, frozen or pouched seafood in a variety of  ways.

I’ve been thinking back to the “old days” when cold salad plates were served at many tea rooms, cafeterias and other lunch lines. The memory is a fond reminisce. And I thought of how I really haven’t eaten this in awhile.

The tuna plate is something I’d grab on hot days. Or when I just wasn’t into the other offerings.

I’ve always enjoyed tuna salad, as well as the little nibbles that can go with it. To me, it is perfect summer food. If not old-fashioned. But then again, I am old-fashioned. Give this one a try if you haven’t had it before.

If you get your eggs cooking in the morning, you can escape heating the kitchen on any sweltering summer day and stay cool.

Fish Friday Foodies

~Shortcut Seafood~

(Using canned, frozen or pouched seafood to make appetizers or a meal)

• Culinary Adventures with Camilla is plating an Ensalada de Atún y Pimientos
• A Day in the Life on the Farm is serving up Linguini with White Beans and Tuna
• Sneha’s Recipe cooked up Prawn and Onion Stir Fry
• Food Lust People Love made some Red Pesto Linguine 
• Palatable Pastime is giving us a Tea Room Tuna Salad Plate
• Karen’s Kitchen Stories is ladling out a Smoked Salmon Bisque 
• Making Miracles shares her recipe for  Tuna Patties

Are you a food blogger who would like to join Fish Friday Foodies? We post and share new seafood/fish recipes on the third Friday of the month. To join our group please email Wendy at wendyklik1517 (at) gmail.com. Visit our Facebook page and Pinterest page for more wonderful fish and seafood recipe ideas.

Tea Room Tuna Salad Plate

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Tea Room Tuna Salad Plate

Tea Room Tuna Salad Plate

Sue Lau

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Course Main Dish, Salad

Cuisine American

Servings 2 salad plates

Ingredients

  

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Tuna Salad:

• 5 ounce can tuna packed in water (drained)
• 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon sweet pickle relish
• 2 tablespoons finely diced celery
• 1 tablespoon finely diced onion

Plate:

• 1 large ripe beefsteak tomato
• 2 cups shredded lettuce
• 2 hard-cooked eggs
• 1/2 cup potato salad or macaroni salad
• 2 ounces cheese cubes (type is your choice)
• 4 small sweet gherkin pickles
• 4 Ritz crackers or Captain's Wafers (optional)

Instructions

 

• Stir up tuna salad in a small bowl and set aside.
• Cut around the circumference of the tomato using a zig-zag pattern and pull halves apart.
• Scoop out the extra tomato from the inside, leaving two shells.
• Set up two chilled salad plates and spread the lettuce out to create a bed.
• Fill tomato shells with tuna salad and arrange on the plates along with the other remaining plate ingredients.
• Serve chilled.

Notes

From the kitchen of palatablepastime.com

Keyword Main Dish salad

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