Tuna Melt Sandwiches

⏳ Time

10 minutes

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

This typical English sandwich is known as a tuna melt, where the tuna is held together by melting cheese. If you don't like the taste of tuna juice, you can drain it and add a tablespoon of olive oil instead.

Ingredients

Canned tuna in its own juice - 1 can
Sourdough Bread - 8 pieces
Emmental cheese - 7.1 oz
Pasilla Pepper - to taste
Capers - ½ spoons
Butter - 0.7 oz
Cucumbers - ½ pieces

Step by Step guide

Step 1

Place the tuna along with its juice in a bowl and mash it with your hands. Sprinkle with pink Mauritius pepper (which is just as aromatic as black pepper but less spicy), add capers, and mix well. Add grated Emmental cheese (or another cheese of your choice, such as Edam or Gouda) and mix again.

Step 2

Heat a skillet over medium heat and lightly toast the bread on both sides. Then, spread a little butter on one side of each slice, add the tuna-cheese mixture, and close the sandwiches. Return them to the skillet, where they should cook for a couple of minutes under a lid — the idea is to melt the cheese and bind it to the fish filling.