Reboot Keto Tuna Melt: Even Vanja Likes It!
Keto Tuna Melt? Is that the same as a Tuna Melt? Not exactly. A traditional tuna melt is on bread or toast and usually with a slice of Kraft Cheese.
A Keto Tuna Melt is made with the best ingredients you can lay your hands on. After all, food fuels your body and you are certainly not going to scrimp when it comes to that, are you? That means, no Kraft slices. It also means homemade mayonnaise and wild GMO-free tuna (0.32 parts per million of mercury. “Canned white, or albacore tuna: Children under six can eat up to one 3-ounce portion a month; children from 6–12, two 4.5-ounce portions a month. Adults, including pregnant women, can safely eat this kind of tuna up to three times a month (women, 6-ounce portions; men, 8-ounce portions.”)
Look at that lush delicious bite. This is a very fast, tasty, nutritious and stick-to-your-ribs meal that you can make with ingredients usually in your fridge and home pantry. This entire recipe is only one serving, or two if you have a very small appetite.
Reboot Keto Tuna Melt: Mis en Place
Use your imagination! Ragan finds celery seed make this dish for her. I love it with green peppers as that’s how mom used to make it, but I am keeping it simple, today!
Reboot Keto Tuna Melt: Making the Casserole
Whole white tuna is key: best flavour, best texture and most healthy. Chunk it up.
Add the crisp, flavourful bits minced to your palate preference.
Combine well.
Two tablespoons of homemade or GMO-free, organic mayonnaise…
Combined well. Hard so far?
Add little less than 1/2 cheese and
Combine well.
Reboot Keto Tuna Melt: Baking the Tuna Melt
Top with remaining cheese and bake in a 350ºF oven for 20 minutes, until heated through and cheese a little brown around the edge of the casserole dish.
Simple.
Reboot Keto Tuna Melt: Portioning the Tuna Melt and Analyzing the Nutritional Value
Aromatic! Mmmmm! Moist? Yes, sirree. Delicious? You bet. Talk about home food and comfort and indulgence on a budget.
This little casserole ticks all the boxes. It is 583 calories per serving (or 292 calories for half serving) with 40 grams fat, 31 grams protein and 5 grams carbohydrates. Perfect for that fat burning eating program my family is currently on. Now, don’t get me wrong. We also eat our veggies! Just 50% fat, 25% protein and 25% carbohydrates. I haven’t had a tuna melt in a billion years and I completely enjoyed it!
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Reboot Keto Tuna Melt
Ingredients
- 1 can 170 gram Cloverleaf whole White Albacore Tuna drained
- 30 grams or 2 tablespoons mayonnaise organic GMO free or homemade
- 30 grams purple onion minced
- 30 grams celery minced
- 60 grams Cheddar Cheese
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350˚K placing oven rack in middle of oven
- In a medium bowl, combine first 4 ingredients; mix well leaving tuna in small chunks
- Gently stir in 1/3 cheddar and top with a generous amount of freshly ground pepper
- Sprinkle remaining cheese over surface and bake 20 minutes until bubbly and just browned around edges
- Rest for 5 minutes and enjoy with a crisp salad
This is DELISH!! I am sure you left out that your AMAZING daughter came up with her version of this recipe that INSPIRED you hehe! I love the idea of mixing in the cheese first and then on top! YUM! xo
My AMAZING daughter sure DID INSPIRE ME! And I still have to buy some celery seeds to add into the mix as the celery flavour is so important to me in this recipe – and hey, MIKEY LOVES IT! Whoops! I mean, Vanja!
🙂 🙂 🙂