Cooking with canned tuna is easy and affordable. This guide will show you how to make delicious recipes with canned tuna.
These recipes are perfect for fast and flavorful meals, snacks, appetizers and more. Tuna fish is a great source of protein, omega-3 fatty acids, iron, and calcium.
When compared to fresh tuna, canned tuna is much cheaper and very convenient. Because of its long shelf life, canned tuna can be found almost anywhere in the world.
Whether you are a beginner or a pro chef, you will find something easy and quick to prepare on the below list:
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Tuna Bread Recipe
Zucchini and tuna bread (Gluten free, AIP, paleo)
Looking for a grab and go AIP compliant dish? Try this zucchini and tuna bread. This easy and healthy savory zuchhini bread will be perfect for your a grab and go breakfast, lunch or any kind of meal!
Canned Tuna Dip Recipes
Easy Tuna Dip
This Delicious and Easy Tuna Dip is creamy, full of flavour and takes just minutes to prepare! When a homemade dip is this simple and tasty, there is no need for a shop-bought dip. In fact, it will likely be quicker to make it from store cupboard ingredients than go to the store.
Easy Buffalo Tuna Dip
This yummy Buffalo Tuna Dip is so easy to make and can be made on the stove or slow cooker! It makes the perfect appetizer, snack, or you can eat it with some crunchy veggies for a simple lunch. You can eat it hot or cold, whichever you prefer!
Tuna And Cream Cheese Dip
A super easy tuna dip recipe with cream cheese. It’s ready in less than 5 minutes.
Appetizer Recipes With Canned Tuna
Tuna Puff Pastry Pinwheels
These Tuna Puff Pastry Pinwheels are the ultimate, easily prepared appetizer, suitable to serve either hot or at room temperature. However, they are not just for entertaining; they are great served as snacks or ideal to add to school or work lunch boxes.
Caesar Tuna Stuffed Avocados
Caesar Tuna Stuffed Avocados make a delicious lunch or light dinner. The combination of tuna, avocado, and Caesar dressing is insanely good!
Stuffed Cherry Peppers Recipe
Stuffed Cherry Peppers are filled with a creamy mixture of tuna, anchovy, capers, and parsley. This is a delicious Italian appetizer recipe also known as Peperoncini Ripieni and makes a perfect year-round appetizer.
Piquillo Peppers Stuffed With Tuna
A simple recipe for Piquillo Peppers Stuffed with Tuna (Pimentos del Piquillo Rellenos de Atún) with rustic Fingerling Potato and Olive Salad inspired by Disney’s Spice Road Table at Epcot’s Morocco Pavilion. It’s perfect as a light lunch or dinner, or as a unique component to a homemade tapas feast!
Tuna Salad Recipes
Tuna Salad Without Celery or Eggs Recipe
This quick and easy tuna salad is perfect for a tasty lunch and uses easy-to-find ingredients that are already likely in your refrigerator
Tuna Macaroni Salad Deluxe – American Classic
When the occasion calls for something special or just to treat your family make up a batch of my Tuna Macaroni Deluxe. This American Classic is guaranteed to bring smiles to your table.
Healthy Tuna Pasta Salad
A simple, healthy, and creamy pasta salad made without mayonnaise. Simply mix tuna, yogurt (or sour cream), peas, and parmesan cheese.
Tuna Rice Salad Italian Style
This tuna rice salad is a delicious, simple, light throw-together rice salad packed with flavors and made with a fresh, homemade lemon, herb, and olive oil vinaigrette, no mayo.
Greek Tuna Salad
There’s tuna salad, and then there’s Greek Tuna Salad! This classic American sandwich filler gets a decidedly Mediterranean twist with feta, lots of vegetables, and fresh basil.
Mediterranean Tuna Salad – No Mayo
This Mediterranean Tuna Salad – No Mayo is a fresh new twist on traditional tuna salad. With albacore tuna, tomatoes, cucumber, onion, artichokes, and olives this tuna salad is anything but boring! Great for lunch, dinner, and meal prep.
Sandwich Recipes With Canned Tuna
Tuna Melt Croissants
These tuna melt croissants are filled with a light and tasty tuna filling – complete with added veggies.
Vegan Chickpea of the Sea 'Tuna' Sandwiches.
Super simple and totally delicious! This easy sandwich filler will satisfy your tuna cravings whilst leaving our precious fish in the sea where they belong!
Spinach Tuna Melt
This is one of our favorite ways to add some extra nutrition to our lunches. This Spinach Tuna Melt recipe is everything you love about a tuna melt except for the added nutrition of spinach that even kids will love!
Open Faced Tuna Melt with Bacon
Open Faced Tuna Melt with Bacon has toasted English muffins topped with the BEST tuna salad, Swiss cheese, and bacon. For a delicious lunch or light dinner, this tuna melt is made open-face in the toaster oven or conventional oven with just the right balance of creaminess and crunch.
Mains Recipes With Canned Tuna
Tuna and Potato Patties
These Easy Tuna and Potato Patties are a great budget dinner option and one that the whole family will enjoy. This is, in fact, a very useful recipe to have up your sleeve.
Easy Tuna Patty Recipe {Recipes With Canned Tuna}
Delicious and homemade, this easy tuna patty recipe is quick and easy to make. Packed with a generous amount of vegetables, they are a simple dinner meal idea.
Chili Lime Tuna Fishcakes (Gluten-Free)
Elevated fishcakes with a zesty twist! Chili Lime Tuna Fishcakes that are gluten-free, egg-free, dairy-free, & soy-free, without the oil, and baked in the oven. With a secret nutty ingredient for a super flavor-packed & healthy recipe, your family will love for dinner or lunch!
Easy Tuna Casserole Recipe {Recipes With Canned Tuna}
This Easy Tuna Casserole Recipe is a classic weeknight dinner the family will love. Tuna Noodle Casserole is quick, easy, inexpensive, and satisfying.
Canned Tuna Bolognese Pasta Recipe – Ready in 15 mins!
15-minute pasta recipe that’s perfect for midweek dinner
Tuna Noodle Casserole {Recipes With Canned Tuna}
Creamy, old-fashioned Tuna Noodle Casserole. This is one of those recipes you just hold on to for life. The kind your family asks for repeatedly. The kind that saves you on a busy weeknight, but does so with warmth and love in a way only some recipes do.
Tuna Noodle Casserole With Peas
This tuna noodle casserole with peas recipe is the perfect one-dish meal. Adding vegetables to your casserole recipes not only boosts nutrition, it also makes this perfect meal when you don’t want to fuss with a bunch of extra side dishes.
Creamy Tuna Pasta Bake
If you’re looking for a simple, easy-to-follow creamy tuna pasta bake recipe, this is the one! Absolutely easy, cheesy, and loaded with veggies! This easy creamy pasta bake is a timeless dish that never seems to fall out of favor.
Cuban-Style Tuna Meal Prep Bowls (Gluten-Free, Paleo)
A healthy meal prep recipe in a pinch! These Cuban-Style Tuna Meal Prep Bowls are gluten-free, paleo, and perfect for a well-rounded lunch! With plantain chips, fresh veggies, jalapeno tuna, and a zesty dairy-free yogurt, you’ll be powering through that midday slump!
Tuna Nachos
Ready in 30 minutes, these easy tuna nachos are a family favorite – and perfect for busy days when you want a quick dinner
Tuna Thai Red Curry
A stunning Thai red curry made in just a few minutes for a light easy meal. Gluten-free and paleo, this tuna Thai red curry is lightened up and served over simple coconut cauliflower rice to bring it all together!
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