An Inexpensive Tinned Tuna Recipe

Although I first began making this recipe with tinned Salmon I find that Tuna works just as well and tastes very nice.   Further, it is often much cheaper than salmon.

You can, of course use salmon, but the little hitch is to pick out the bones and the black skin that is packed with it.   With Tuna, it is already cleaned and sometimes combined with other items for taste, like pepper or vegetables.

In this recipe you take one tin of tuna and pour off most of the liquid.  Leave back some, be it water or oil.  If if is packed in water you will use a half teaspoon of oil, if packed in oil, you’ll use that.

Crush the tuna with a fork in a nice bowl.  Add the seasonings you like while you are crushing.  I like jerk seasoning, chutney, ginger pepper, but you can put in whatever you like.

If the Tuna comes with additions, like vegetables, jalapeno pepper or whatever that is just as good as adding your own onions or garlic or whatever you like.

Add bread crumbs or peanut porridge or both to thicken and extend, and mix well.  The tuna should be easy to blend and you should have a slightly moist/oily mix.

Now form the tuna into balls which when squashed would be about the size of an oreo.  If they are falling apart you will add more bread crumbs.  I usually find one dinner roll enough when I add a few tablespoons of peanut porridge.   You can use cornmeal if you want.

If too dry, add more oil.  You want to be able to mold them with your hands.

You can get six of these croquettes the size of  ‘oreo cookies’ from one tin of tuna.

Place them on an oiled plate, not touching, and pop into a microwave for about three (3) minutes.  Let sit in the warm microwave oven for about five (5) minutes.

After that, take out the plate and check if they are done.  You might put them back in for another two minutes after flipping them.

Let sit about five minutes in the microwave, then remove.

You can eat these with any kind of noodle, spaghetti that you like with tomato sauce.   You will use only two of your tuna patties along with your macaroni, or ramen or whatever kind of noodle you are using.

In this way you get three meals from one tin of tuna.

It is very tasty and can stretch one tin of tuna to three meals or three people.