Wonderful tuna casserole!!

recovering_spendaholic

I have posted on here many times about my extremely fussy kids and their reluctance to eat my OS meals, but today I made a Tuna Casserole from a new Cookbook I got from Gooseberry Patch. I had to tweak it a bit because the book is American but it tasted wonderful and was devoured in no time at lunch by BOTH DD's (a veritable miracle).

You need:
10oz pasta shapes, which you boil as normal
1 large tin tuna
2 sticks celery
2 smalll or 1 large onion
quarter tsp thyme
quarter tsp black pepper
1 tin condensed mushroom soup
three quarters or a cup of milk
6oz mushrooms
2 tbs flour
2 tbs butter or marg (I used I can't believe its not butter)
half a packet of TUC crackers, or a cup of Ritz, or just breadcrumbs, or crushed crisps
2oz grated parmesan or other strong cheese

All you do is mix the soup, milk, thyme, pepper and flour in a bowl with the drained tuna and pour over the drained pasta. Gently fry the onion, celery and mushrooms until soft in the marg and mix in with pasta mix and top with crushed TUC (or crisps, or Ritz or breadcrumbs) mixed with the cheese. Bake for 25 mins at Gas 4 180 electric. I loved it too! Apologies if you all know how to make this already, I had never tried it!! It makes LOADS too!!

lynsayjane

i quite fancy this as summit different, i seriously need to vary my diet! but does it HAVE to be mushroom soup as i cant stand the things???

recovering_spendaholic

lynsayjane wrote:

i quite fancy this as summit different, i seriously need to vary my diet! but does it HAVE to be mushroom soup as i cant stand the things???

No - it doesn't have to be mushroom soup - you can use celery or asparagus or even chicken and I suppose you don't even have to use soup you could use single cream instead,a nd put a bit more seasoning in it. It is really lovely though - the TUC biscuits on the top with the cheese are just fab.

lynsayjane

shall add this to my food plan this week and give it a go. since i'm on my own i better cut down the amounts to or i'll be eating it for a week! :rotfl:

newleaf

I've seen a recipe similar to this before, it was called 'Tuna Can-Can' and I think the only difference is that it had a splash of sherry in it. Id forgotten all about it till now, so thanks for posting this! I've also made it with different flavoured soup - celery is nice.

Rachie_B

sounds yummy,my kids would like it

lots more condensed soup recipes here http://www.campbellsoup.co.uk/

tanith

I used to make this Tuna Casserole many years ago but substitute the mushrooms with hard boiled eggs sliced my kids would devour it and the smell was delicious.....

V.Lucky

Thanks for that, it sounds really tasty. Thank you button has gone awol again!

I am veggie and don't eat fish either - anyone any suggestions of anything else I could subsitute - or do I just miss it out?

Thanks

janeawej

Looks great will be trying it next week! hope my lot will love it too

recovering_spendaholic

V.Lucky wrote:

Thanks for that, it sounds really tasty. Thank you button has gone awol again!

I am veggie and don't eat fish either - anyone any suggestions of anything else I could subsitute - or do I just miss it out?

Thanks

I reckon you could just leave out the tuna and use celery soup and it would still be fine - or you could put some quorn chunk thingies in it, although I'm not too keen on them myself.

Rachie_B

V.Lucky wrote:

Thanks for that, it sounds really tasty. Thank you button has gone awol again!

I am veggie and don't eat fish either - anyone any suggestions of anything else I could subsitute - or do I just miss it out?

Thanks

what about adding more veg ,sweetcorn maybe and a few more mushrooms ?