How To Make Classic Tuna Melt
This tasty tuna melt makes a simple lunch meal, made even more satisfying and toasty with perfectly melted cheese, fresh veggies, and tender tuna.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1green onion,thinly sliced, including the greens
- 3tbspfresh flat leaf parsley,chopped
- 2tbspfresh tarragon leaves,chopped, or 2 teaspoon dried tarragon, crumbled
- 1lemon,zested
- 2tsplemon juice
- 1tspdijon mustard
- ⅛tspfreshly ground black pepper
- ⅓cupmayonnaise
- 6ozsolid white tuna,(2 cans), well drained and flaked
- 8French bread slices,or Italian loaf bread, or favorite bread, sliced ½-inch thick
- 8tomato slices,thinly sliced
- 4ozsharp white cheddar cheese,(about 1 cup), grated
- 2tbspbutter,softened
Instructions
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Mix the green onion, parsley, tarragon, lemon juice, lemon zest, Dijon mustard, black pepper, and mayonnaise in a medium-sized bowl. Add the drained tuna, mixing with a fork to break up the flakes.
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Lay out 4 slices of bread. Divide the tuna mixture evenly onto the slices. Top each bread slice with tomato slices and grated cheese.
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Spread one side of the remaining four bread slices with butter. Place the bread slices, buttered side up on top of the cheese.
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Heat a large griddle on medium heat. Place the sandwiches, buttered side down onto the hot griddle. Gently spread butter on top of the bread slices.
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Cook for about 3 minutes or until nicely browned on one side. Use a metal spatula to lift up the sandwiches and carefully turn them to the other side. Cook for another 3 minutes or so until the second side is browned.
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Serve immediately, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 429.38kcal
- Fat: 32.24g
- Saturated Fat: 11.85g
- Trans Fat: 0.57g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 8.06g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 10.28g
- Carbohydrates: 15.59g
- Fiber: 1.85g
- Sugar: 2.98g
- Protein: 20.21g
- Cholesterol: 69.55mg
- Sodium: 594.94mg
- Calcium: 240.72mg
- Potassium: 364.78mg
- Iron: 2.14mg
- Vitamin A: 165.08µg
- Vitamin C: 21.19mg
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