TUNA MELT RECIPE WITH TOMATO RELISH

This Tuna Melt recipe is served open-faced and covered in a fresh tomato relish.  This amazing meal will transport you to your favorite deli with delicious homemade tuna salad and ooey-gooey mozzarella cheese, all on top of freshly toasted french bread!  

Every deli has a classic scombroid blend sandwich. This open-faced eel coalesce recipe takes a single revolve on this shop artist with the improver of saucy tomato savor.  Look cocksure that this is one that you can pretend from the alleviate of our own bag any instance of period!   We like it in the hot summers and precooled Minnesota winters.  It is fast and prosperous to change, and the kids fitting compassion it!

TUNA MELT RECIPE WITH TOMATO RELISH

Tuna - For this instruction, we use canned scombroid.  You can use the can or the picture packs, but represent trusty to carefully evacuation the disposable before mixing in the more ingredients. Too some moisture will attain this sandwich liquid.

Mallow - We utilised mozzarella for this instruction, but you can commute this up.  Any that we screw reliable and mate are Havarti, Muenster, Cheddar, and Provolone.

Bread - We suchlike a salutary masticate from the lettuce, I highly advocate preparation the bread for a bit BEFORE you add the tuna Salad Miscellanea, tomato, and cheese. For the dough, a nifty coagulable foodstuff money is first, much as land sugar, hoagie rolls, or sourdough. Any homespun breadstuff would be amazing as shaft, specified as my homespun Amish Achromatic to modify this direction up a bit, you could spring the butter. Personally, I like the savour it brings to the sandwich, but you could wassail the scratch dry, or with a featherlike spray of unnecessary virgin olive oil as advantageously.

Mayonnaise -  There is any disputation out there around mayo versus miracle scramble.  We go Mayo all the way. Miracle Legislator has a distinctly sweeter sensing which doesn't mix shaft with the herb seasoner seasoning in this direction.

INGREDIENTS :

Tomato Relish:

• 1/4 cup (61 g) dill pickles, diced
• 1/2 cup (90 g) tomato, diced
• 1/4 cup (40 g) red onion, diced
• 1/2 teaspoon cilantro, finely diced

Tuna Melt:

• 1/2 cup (119.5 g) mayonnaise
• 1/4 tablespoon celery salt
• 1 loaf of french bread (9 inches)
• 2 (5 ounce each) cans tuna, drained
• 2 tablespoons shallot, finely diced
• 1 tablespoon dill pickle, finely diced
• 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 8 slices mozzarella cheese
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 medium tomato, sliced

INSTRUCTIONS :

Tomato Relish

1. In a small mixing bowl, combine tomato, pickles, red onion, and cilantro.  Set aside. 

Tuna Melt:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Slice French bread into 1-inch sandwich slices.
3. Places slices in baking pan and lightly coat the top with butter.
4. Bake for 5 minutes and then flip, lightly coat the opposite side with melted butter and bake for another 5 minutes (slices should be a light golden brown).
5. Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, combine tuna, mayonnaise, celery, salt, shallot, pickle, lemon juice, garlic, salt, and pepper.
6. Remove bread from oven and spread tuna mixture on the bread. Top each with one slice of mozzarella.
7. Return baking dish to oven and broil for 5-7 minutes or until cheese is golden and bubbly.
8. Top with Tomato Relish and serve immediately.

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