Recipe: Perfect Open faced tuna melt

Open faced tuna melt. Open Faced Tuna Melts are a staple menu item at our home. A great, tasty, weeknight meal that includes canned tuna, celery, red onion Ingredients needed for Open Faced Tuna Melts: Tuna - I used two large cans of Albacore Tuna in water for this recipe. Drain it well, and chop up the big chunks.

This classic tuna melt has the perfect amount of crunch, melty cheddar cheese, and veggies. Melts are one of my favorite types of lunch sandwiches. Read the full recipe after the video. You can have Open faced tuna melt using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Open faced tuna melt

1. You need of (5 oz) chicken of the sea tuna.
2. It's of shallot,minced(approx.2 tbsp).
3. You need of plain non-fat greek yogurt.
4. You need of lemon juice.
5. Prepare of minced parsley.
6. It's of sea salt.
7. Prepare of 100% whole-wheat bread, toasted.
8. Prepare of fresh tomatoes, sliced.
9. It's of shredded sharp cheddar cheese.

Stir together mayonnaise, Dijon, and Parmesan. This Open Faced Tuna Melt is a little spicy, cheesy, has no mayonnaise and is loaded with flavor! To take a tuna melt from good to great, it has to have all the right components. In other words, plain mayo alone won't cut it.

Open faced tuna melt step by step

1. Preheat broiler.
2. Combine tuna,shallot,Greek yogurt,lemon juice,parsley, and salt in a medium bowl. If desired you can add some black pepper or hot sauce for additional flavor..
3. Spread 1/4 cup of the tuna mixture on each slice of toast; top with cheese and tomato..
4. Place sandwiches on a baking sheet and broil until the cheese is bubbling and golden brown, 3-5 min.

Here's how we do it: open-faced with crusty toasted bread, melty cheese, capers, cornichons, Dijon mustard, and plenty of seasoning. This Tuna Melt is served open-faced and will transport you to your favorite deli with delicious homemade tuna salad, fresh sliced tomato, and ooey-gooey mozzarella cheese, all on top of freshly toasted french bread! This would also taste amazing on my homemade Amish White Bread! This Open-faced Island Trollers Tuna Melt is a great light lunch for these summer months. All the fresh herbs in the tuna mix really help it say summer.