Best 9 Creamy Tuna Melt Recipes

TUNA MELT RECIPE

Steps:

• Prepare tuna salad by stirring together tuna, celery, mayonnaise, pickle relish, salt and pepper in a large bowl. Cover and refrigerate for up to 1 day.
• Arrange bread or English muffins on a rimmed baking sheet. Place about 6-inches from the broiler and toast until golden brown, about 5 minutes.
• Spread about ½ cup of tuna salad over each slice of toast, top with sliced tomato, then the cheddar. Broil 6-inches from the heat until the cheese is melted and starting to brown, about 3-6 minutes.

ULTIMATE TUNA MELT

Steps:

• In a medium sized bowl combine the tuna, mayonnaise, celery, red onion, dijon mustard, parsley, salt and pepper.
• Butter each slice of bread. Putting the butter side down add the cheese on the unbuttered side. Add the tuna mixture on top. Top with tomato and additional cheese.

HARD TIMES CREAMED TUNA

Steps:

• Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir flour into melted butter until smooth and slowly stream milk into the mixture while whisking continually. Bring mixture to a simmer and cook until thickened, about 5 minutes.
• Reduce heat to medium-low. Stir tuna into the milk mixture; season with salt and pepper. Cook until tuna is warmed, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Ladle tuna mixture over toasted bread to serve.

CREAMY HOMESTYLE TUNA MELTS

Steps:

• Combine first 4 ingredients. Fill bread slices with tuna salad and Singles to make 6 sandwiches.
• Spread outsides of sandwiches with butter.
• Cook in skillet on medium heat 3 min. on each side or until golden brown on both sides.

MELT YOUR HEART TUNA MELT

Steps:

• For the tuna: In a large bowl, break up the tuna with a fork and add the mayonnaise, lemon juice, red onions, green onions, basil, cilantro, parsley, mint and vinegar. Mix well to combine. Taste and season with salt, pepper and extra lemon juice and mayonnaise as desired.
• For the sandwich: Brush the softened butter on 1 side of each slice of bread, setting aside some butter for cooking the sandwiches. Place the bread buttered-side down on a baking sheet. Divide the tuna among 4 slices of bread and top each with 2 slices of cheese. Complete the sandwich with the remaining 4 slices of bread, buttered-side up.
• Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat and add half of the remaining butter. When the butter melts, place 2 sandwiches in the pan and cook until toasted and golden brown on each side. Repeat with the remaining sandwiches. (If your pan is large enough, you can cook all the sandwiches at the same time.) Serve warm, with pickles.

ULTIMATE TUNA MELTS

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, flake the tuna finely with a fork. Add the celery, scallions, and dill, and continue mixing and fluffing with the fork until combined. Add the lemon juice, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, and 3/4 teaspoon pepper. Combine the mayonnaise and anchovy paste, if using, and mix into the tuna.
• Preheat the broiler. Toast the bread in a toaster and place the slices in a single layer on a sheet pan. Spread a quarter of the tuna mixture thickly and evenly on each piece of bread, covering the entire slice. Sprinkle the cheese evenly on the 4 sandwiches, covering the tuna completely. Broil for 1 to 2 minutes, just until the cheese melts and starts to brown. (Watch it carefully!) Sprinkle with the microgreens and serve hot.

CREAMY TUNA MELT

Steps:

• Place broiler rack in position under broiler and turn on broiler.
• Saute garlic,celery and onion in a small amount of oil or butter in a skillet. Cook until onion is just tender.
• Drain tuna and add to skillet along with ricotta cheese, broccoli, mayonnaise, and lemon juice. Cook long enough to warm ingredients through, perhaps 3 minutes, stirring frequently.
• If you like your bagels to be a bit toasted, place them under broiler while tuna mixture is warming up.
• Place bagel halves, split side up, in baking dish. Spread tuna mixture over top covering all and sprinkle cheese over top of mixture.
• Broil 2 or 3 minutes, until cheese melts.
• Serve at once.
• Broil 3 to 4 inches from the heat until the cheddar melts, about 5 minutes.

CREAMY AVOCADO TUNA MELTS

Steps:

• Move oven rack 4 to 6 inches from broiler. Set oven control to broil.
• Use toaster to lightly toast whole wheat bread. Arrange in single layer on foil-lined cookie sheet.
• In medium bowl, stir together tuna, yoghurt, salt, garlic powder and onion powder.
• Top each bread slice evenly with avocado, tomato and tuna mixture. Sprinkle each with 1/4 cup cheese.
• Broil sandwiches 3 to 4 minutes or just until cheese is melted.

CREAMY 2-CHEESE TUNA MELTS

Steps:

• Mix cream cheese spread, tuna and onions. Fill bread slices with tuna mixture and Singles.
• Spread outsides of sandwiches with butter.
• Cook in skillet on medium heat 3 min. on each side or until golden brown on both sides.