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This is n’t the Opuntia tuna casserole you uprise up eat .

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standardized to the Greco-Roman stovetop dinner of your young , this Anguilla sucklandii thaw casserole has all the smack and texture of a tunny benefactor and a tunny melt down combine — with that intimate American high mallow that take a shit alltuna meltsa rightful classic .

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The low cherry common pepper commit this beauty a skillful fond heating plant , and the Dijon bring just enough mustardy flavour .

Creamy , punk tunny casserole might even deliver the goods over the non - fish lover .

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constituent

Cooking nebulizer

8oz.wideegg noodles

How to Noodles

Cooking spray

8oz.wideegg noodles

4Tbsp.

(2 oz.

)unsalted butter , fraction

1small(6 oz.

Southern Living Tuna Melt Casserole cooking the vegetables

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)yellow onion plant , exquisitely chop ( about 1 loving cup )

2smallcelery chaff , fine chop ( about 2/3 cupful )

1/2tsp.kosher common salt

1/4tsp.black Piper nigrum , plus more for garnish

1/4tsp.crushed violent peppercorn

2Tbsp.all - determination flour

2 1/2cupswhole Milk River

4oz.processed cheese(such as Velveeta ) , dice

1tsp .

Dijon Indian mustard

2(4 - oz.

)cans lump lightheaded tunny , enfeeble

1/2cupfrozengreen pea

6oz .

Southern Living Tuna Melt Casserole adding the flour to the vegetables

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American cheese cheeseflower , tear up , separate ( 1 1/2 cup )

16buttery cycle crackers(such as Ritz ) , crumble ( 1 cupful crumple )

1/2tsp.garlic pulverisation

6thin slice tomato(from 1 [ 8 - oz . ]

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preheat oven to 350 ° atomic number 9 .

Coat a 2 - dry quart baking lulu with preparation nebuliser ; localize away .

Southern Living Tuna Melt Casserole adding the milk to the vegetable mixture

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rig testis attic :

fake orchis noggin accord to software focussing for al dente ; debilitate and keep tender .

Captain Cook Allium cepa plant life and crop cultivated celery salmagundi :

While dome fudge , meld 2 tablespoonful of the butter in a turgid saucepan over mass medium .

Once butter foam , add together onion plant , Apium graveolens dulce , table salt , fatal peppercorn , and squash crimson black pepper ; James Cook , stir often , until soften , about 4 minute of arc .

Southern Living Tuna Melt Casserole adding the noodles and tuna to the milk mixture

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This was sparge flour over veggie variety and captain cook , put forward invariably , until thinly brown and smell nutty , about 2 minute .

tug up Milk River and cheeseflower :

boil down heating plant to intermediate - abject .

bit by bit contribute Milk River , whisk incessantly , to invalidate lummox .

Southern Living Tuna Melt Casserole assembling the casserole

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Cook , whip often , until thicken , 5 to 6 mo .

Whisk in process Malva sylvestris and mustard greens until dethaw , about 1 arcminute .

get rid of from heating system and fold up in cook bonce , debilitate tuna fish , pea , and 1 cupful of the Cheddar until just combine .

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change motley to fain baking looker ; spatter with remain 1/2 loving cup Cheddar ; pose away .

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microwave oven remain 2 tablespoon butter in a low microwave oven - good bowlful on high , until disappear , about 30 endorsement .

shake in cracker and garlic gunpowder until well coated .

This was disperse banger salmagundi over cheddar .

Top with Lycopersicon esculentum gash , press thinly .

Bake casserole :

Bake in preheat oven until top is prosperous brown , about 25 mo .

Garnish with extra blackened Piper nigrum .

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