Never eaten tuna casserole ☺️ My abuela used to make canned salmon patties. Albondigas de Salmon. I’ve been enjoying mackerel with olive oil and lemon, I add it to homegrown greens, canned navy beans, fresh tomato & nuts & seeds, more lemon juice and zest. 😋 Thank you for the reminder of how tuna caught! Very important! I like your addition of pickles and panko. Yummy!!! 💖💐
My mom used to make tuna casserole as a way to make the groceries stretch. It had the added benefit of a dish her children would eat with relish 😊 I haven't had it in years. I guess I'll put both it and these tuna patties in my menu rotation.
Loved my moms' tuna casserole! Still make it - 1 or 2 cans of solid tuna, can of cream of mushroom soup, undiluted, can/frozen peas and crushed potato chips on top. In oven 350° until bubbly and voila! Hope you try it because it's so good!
My mom never made tuna casserole but I suspect I would’ve liked it. She did however make tuna salad for sandwiches quite a lot but she always used pimento stuffed green olives instead of pickles which I absolutely love! I think that would be great in the casserole too
Sarah! I love watching you cook. I'm a pescatarian but I'll watch you cook anything/everything. LOVE your recipes! I'm not on Intragram or any social media but I want you to know that I do use your recipes. Keep them coming!
I learned to cook watching Sarah. A decade later she is still once of my favorites. Love all her recipes. Her roasted chicken with olive oragnes and dates is soooo good. and many more inventions
Sarah, I was raised Catholic and when I was a child my mom would make tuna noodle casserole on Fridays. It wasn't great. Just recently I have tried it again and I do like it. I suppose my palate has matured. I also like an open face tuna melt, and this tuna mixture would be delicious in that application.... with cheese, of course!
I grew up on tuna casserole. My mom's recipe was delicious but I try to make it from scratch (nothing out of a can). But sometimes you just gotta have it the way mom made it!
This looks so delicious, I look forward to making this and you are so right when you say every leaf needs dressing, I personally love it when my salads drown in dressing 😂, thanks for another awesome recipe!
I'm a vegetarian now but used to love canned tuna - though I was never a fan of the hot, creamy tuna casserole..... I would totally do this with chickpeas! Oh, and I think the lemon zest thing requires that you hold the lemon still while using the rasp grater like a violin bow. Then you can make sure you don't grate too far before turning the lemon. Thanks for this idea!
This is a lovely recipe and I’ll certainly be trying it! Tuna is one of my favorite ingredients and I haven’t done fish cakes in a while. As a European I’m always surprised to see tin openers on American videos, as all our cans have ring pulls here.
Love tuna casserole, I make my own bechamel, as I prefer a wetter casserole then add small (very small) sharp cheddar chunks and then whatever is in vege bin...might saute mushrooms, grated carrots, frozen peas, topping is butter/breadcrumbs; for these tuna cakes I would def add some chopped scallions or minced onions-thanks u Sarah
The first time I ever had tuna casserole I was 31, the woman I was dating had me to her place for dinner....she made tuna cass. and I loved it. The marriage didn't last but tuna casserole became a fave. Martha?
I make my fish cakes by chilling them first after formed and then baking them on parchment paper without flipping. For me it is easier than frying. The chilling takes care of the tendency of fish cakes to fall apart. Mine have egg. I like the idea of the carrot and pickle.
My mom wasn’t what you would call a great cook. But she figured out what all five of her kids would eat. We didn’t have money so she had about ten easy, low-budget recipes she regularly made for us. One was creamed tuna. Just tuna, flour, and milk all cooked together in her electric skillet. She served it over boiled potatoes. Yum! To this day, when I need some comfort food, I make one of her 9 dishes, except her fried pork chops. They were inedible. The others were homemade mac n cheese, fish sticks, spaghetti with homemade sauce, meatloaf, tacos, hot dogs and beans, lasagna, baked chicken, and fried pork chops (which I hated). Mom would go thru the rotation and then start over again. She always served a canned vegetable and/or a fresh green salad.
So glad I watched this video! I was so close to getting takeout but then I remembered this video. I modified based on what I had, but it was an easy win!
I will eat tuna casserole but no one else in my family likes it so I don’t bother to cook it. But tuna and salmon croquettes were staples going up. Would eat with rice and green beans
Big fan of tuna casserole. It’s one of these generational things. I think anyone born after 85 or so probably didn’t grow up with a lot of tuna cause there was a time when tuna had a really bad rep from the “dolphin safe” thing and the mercury as well.
Okay so, I just made this. Now keep in mind I'm a southern girl. This needed more spices for us. I added garlic powder, onion powder, dill and paprika. Even a bit of tobasco would be cool.
I LOVE tuna casserole but I'm surrounded by haters, so it isn't often that I actually get to make one. Thank you for this recipe with alternate ingredient suggestions, but now I'm gonna be the hater....I don't like too much crunch in my tuna patties or casserole and if there is crunch it definitely needs to be chopped super fine. Thanks again for this recipe!
I once made tuna noodle casserole for my 3 year old daughter who is now 26. To this day she still says it was the worst thing she ever ate. :/ I personally love it.
