What to do when all you’ve got are the end slices of a loaf of bread, some salad stuff in the fridge, a can of tuna and a rumbling tummy? Improvise!
I love tuna salad, but it can turn out quite bland and dry if you’re not careful. So even though this dinner is anything but fancy and certainly not Instagram worthy; it features a really delicious tuna salad made with scraps form the pantry.
Who’s hungry? Vincent and I. This recipe serves two hungry hobos.
Ingredients
For the toastie
- 2 slices of bread
- 2 tsp butter
- 2 tbsp chutney
- quarter of a red onion, sliced
- 1 tomato, sliced
- 45 g white cheddar, sliced
- 2 slices chargrilled turkey
- 1 tbsp oreganum
- salt & pepper
For the tuna salad
- 1 pack salad leaves
- 1 can of tuna
- 340 g can of whole kernel corn
- 1 tbsp peppadews, chopped (keep some juice from the jar too)
- 1 feta round, diced
- 55 g white cheddar, diced
- 50 g baby tomatoes, halved
- half of a red onion, diced thinly
- quarter of a cucumber, sliced
- a squeeze of lemon juice
- salt & pepper
Make a toastie
Butter the outsides of both ends of the loaf of bread.
Turn it over and spread chutney on the insides of both slices.
Add the onions to one slice.
Add the cheese.
Add the tomatoes and sprinkle with oreganum, salt and pepper.
Add the turkey slices.
Close your toastie up and pop it in the snackwich machine on high heat for 5 – 10 minutes. Check it regularly to ensure it does not burn.
It should come out with loads of melted cheese wanting to escape.
Turn out a tuna salad
Add the leaves to a bowl.
Chuck the tuna, peppadews and some of the sauce from the jar, corn kernels, diced onion, lemon juice, salt and pepper to a separate mixing bowl and give it a stir.
Add half of the mixture to the salad leaves.
Add baby tomatoes.
Add the cucumber.
Add the feta.
Now put the other half of the tuna mixture on top.
Add the diced white cheddar.
Bon appétit!
Sprinkle some salt and pepper onto the salad, dish up, and dig in. Simply scrumptious!
Get the print-ready recipe here:
Tuna Salad & A Toastie
A classic meal that's perfect for lunch or a summer dinner. This tuna salad is pretty awesome if I do say so myself, so enjoy it on its own for a carb clever option.
For the toastie:
- 2 slices of bread
- 2 tsp butter
- 2 tbsp chutney
- quarter of a red onion, sliced
- 1 tomato, sliced
- 45 g white cheddar, sliced
- 2 slices chargrilled turkey
- 1 tbsp oreganum
- salt & pepper
For the tuna salad:
- 1 pack salad leaves
- 1 can of tuna
- 340 g can of whole kernel corn
- 1 tbsp peppadews, chopped (keep some juice from the jar too)
- 1 feta round, diced
- 55 g white cheddar, diced
- 50 g baby tomatoes, halved
- half of a red onion, diced thinly
- quarter of a cucumber, sliced
- a squeeze of lemon juice
- salt & pepper
Directions
- For the toastie, butter the outsides of both ends of the loaf of bread.
- Turn it over and spread chutney on the insides of both slices.
- Add onion to one slice, then cheese, tomato slices, oreganum, salt and pepper. Finish it off with a slice or two of turkey.
- Close your toastie up and pop it in the snackwich machine on high heat for 5 – 10 minutes. Check it regularly to ensure it does not burn. It should come out with loads of melted cheese wanting to escape.
- To turn out a tuna salad, first add leaves to a salad bowl.
- In a separate mixing bowl, add the tuna, peppadews and some of the sauce from the jar, corn kernels, diced onion, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Stir well.
- Add half of the mixture to the salad leaves. Then add baby tomatoes, feta and cucumber.
- Add the remaining tuna mixture to the salad and finish off with diced white cheddar.
- Serve your toastie with salad on the side and drizzle some Greek or French dressing over the salad.
Jana Cooks 
So delicious looking! I’d recently had surgery & have been off bread and heavier foods for almost a month, hadn’t miss them really, but this – either I’m getting much better, or your pics are that good, or somewhere in between, lol! – but yes, this post is reminding me how much I loved sandwiches like this! And w/avocado (which I can already eat) – yummy! 😊
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Thanks so much, Felipe! Glad it helped to get your tummy rumbling again 🙂
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Very definitely! And dr said today I can start sampling small portions of that again! 😊
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Happy to hear! Hope all is better soon 🙂
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