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Creamed Tuna on Toast

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Date: 02/19/2005 Topics: Recipes > Cheap Meals | Old Categories > Recipes  
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I raised 4 children with this old standby recipe and I have never met anyone who didn't like it! First you make a basic white sauce. If you don't know how to do this it's pretty easy:

Add:

1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup flour and stir together in a frying pan over medium heat until it starts to sizzle.

Add 1 cup of milk and 1 cup of water and heat stirring occasionally until thickened then stir in 1 can of drained tuna and salt and pepper to taste. Serve over toast. Good side dishes are home fries, green beans, whatever veggies you like. This recipe can be stretched as needed by making more white sauce and you can add more tuna if you like but it is not necessary.

By Kathy Davis
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By redhatterb (233) Profile Contact
I think it sounds good, I would like to make it but my adult developmentally disabled daughter wouldn't eat it. I also make gravy with hamburger the same way and after I get the crumbled hamburger browned I take some of it out for her and she eats her mashed potatoes with margerine on them. She just doesn't seem to know what is good. lol

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By Sk8Mom209 (1) Contact
We ate this growing up also and loved it! With white sauce and peas! It was dinner most Friday's during Lent!

I've been craving this recipe and am going to make it for my 7 year old son tonight! He loves tuna from sushi grade to sandwiches!

Posted on 09/04/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Judy P (1) Profile Contact
This was my mom's standby and we loved it and I still make it. My son and husband just love it and I make it with tuna, eggs and peas.

Posted on 08/02/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse

By kathys (Guest Post)
I am making this tonight (at home). I am a private/professional cook and also make this at work. My mother (who would be 95 now) used to make this for the 12 of us. I make it like she did with cream of celery soup only diluted with a little bit of milk and lots of peas. To dress it up, I sometimes add pimientos, and I butter the toast. My husband (a picky eater) actually asks for this.

Posted on 01/23/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse

By carl (Guest Post)
If you like peas they go very well in this recipe.

Posted on 12/14/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Virruth (2) Contact
Thanks for this recipe that brings back so many memories...Friday's usual meal for us Irish Catholics...I want to try it for my grandchildren who want me to make Tuna Helper! We also made the white sauce and put hard-boilded egg whites in it. Then served the sauce over toast and sprinkled the yolk over it and called it Eggs Ala Goldenrod! Oh those were the days.

Posted on 10/02/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Diane (Guest Post)
This is also very good over mashed potatoes.

Posted on 07/29/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By shelbel (Guest Post)
Awesome stuff! I grew up with this and always had it with white rice!

Posted on 07/22/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By whatagemcy AT aol.com (Guest Post)
I enjoy reading every one's response to this good ol' standby... tuna on toast! So yummy so flavorful, so thrifty, and oh so good! I also ate this when I was just a kid. I'll share my opinion, I eat food because it TASTES good, not only because it is inexpensive to prepare. This is "one "of the gems in culinary history to survive. We thank our mothers, fathers, whomever introduced to us creamed tuna on toast!
Deja vu... I KNOW I've been here before. I'm SO happy too!

Posted on 04/20/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Ann (Guest Post)
I grew up on it too, but I guess we cheated - we used cream of mushroom soup (w/ a little milk to thin it out). Never underestimate the versatility of C. o. M. soup!

Posted on 03/25/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Suzy Chav (Guest Post)
My boyfriend is a chef in an exclusive London burger king and he loves this recipe. I just tried it. He is so tired of flipping burgers and the only time he eats out is at McDonkeynuts. He is 250 pounds of kebab and burger. I know that some of it will be tuna on toast now at least.

He always did say he wants to be as big as Elvis, I think one way or another, probably more by over eating than by singing, he will get his dream. Thank you for making tuna on toast part of that dream!

Posted on 03/18/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Jennifer (Guest Post)
I wrote a whole story on Tuna Gravy on Toast re: memories it brings back... (check it out on my "Taste" page of my site, www.jenevansgardner.com)

So nice to know that I'm not the only one who loved this stuff as a child!

Posted on 02/05/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Denise (Guest Post)
My mom made this when I was growing up; except we always had it over boiled potatoes with butter on them; which was excellent.

Posted on 01/30/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Sandra (Guest Post)
I am going to have to try this on my husband. He is a professional chef of 32 years, I got to make a tuna noodle casserole once and that was it. We'll see. It might be one of those meals just for me when he is working, like tonight I am having McBeef. He does eat that but turns up his nose at some southern cooking. He is from Denmark and they eat weird stuff like lots of herrings. lol

Posted on 08/23/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By lisa (Guest Post)
lol, never really knew how many people grew up on the same thing. going to try and make today for the first time for my boyfriend so thank you for the recipe

Posted on 02/22/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Ariela (282) Profile Blog! Contact
I never had this before untill I was married. (My mother in law made
it. (40 yrs ago)I still make it often. Its good on toast or bisquits
I just make white sauce (alot lol) its so good and hearty I just figure
on a can of drained tuna per person.. trust me, less isnt enuf.
Especially cause we like it chunky not all mushed up. To make it
chunky I make the white sauce.. when its all hot and bubbly I just
turn off the burner and spoon in the drained tuna then spoon the
sauce over the tuna so its gets hot. Then cover the pan.. I use a
deep skillet so I dont have to stir it thus avoiding the mushy effect. By the time I get the plates and side dishs and bisquits ready its ready,... man my mouth is watering now.

P.S. I guess i should add that my white sause is
melt margarine (I never measure) add flour salt pepper
stir till bubbly... then add milk.. stir and turn burner up, stiring
till as thick as desired (we like it thick) I allow one can of drained
tuna per person if you like it chunky.. if not then.. im not sure
since this is how I have always made it.

Posted on 10/03/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse

By payrollgenius (21) Profile Contact
I absolutely LOVED this as a kid. I had no idea so many others were having it too! My mom used to make it for us kids when she and my dad were going out for the evening and she needed to make something fast and easy. I think she felt guilty for making a "quickie" dinner but we were loving it! I think I'll make some tonight.

Posted on 08/27/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Tim (Guest Post)
Yep, I had it growing up a s kid too (in Minneapolis), with a nice slice of butter on top to melt in.

Posted on 08/10/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Jenn (Guest Post)
I had this all the time growing up. We called it tuna gravy. The only difference is that my mom served it over biscuits. I can't get my fiance to try it, but I still make it for myself. Yum! I'll have to try the hard-boiled egg idea.

Posted on 08/04/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Marty G (Guest Post)
My mother used to make tuna on toast with mayonnaise & chili suace (Crosse & Blakcwell) or catsup, tuna & peas. Does anyone have the exact amounts, etc. This is the only way my family eats this receipe. I make it in a double boiler because that's what I remember my mom doing. But I don't have the recipe written down anymore.

Posted on 06/26/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Shawna (Guest Post)
I'm so happy to know that I wasn't the only one out there who ate this as a child! Hehehe. I wanted to make it for my family but had never actually "made it" before. We all loved it. Thanks a lot.

Posted on 05/18/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Kathy Davis (Guest Post)
wow I loved all your replies! You guys are the only people I have ever met who knew about this recipe. I loved your ideas about adding peas and such too. Thank to all of you.

Posted on 04/27/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Ambers Mom (1) Contact
I have made and enjoyed creamed tuna on toast for years. A good addition to this is a couple of sliced hard boiled eggs

Posted on 04/18/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Karen (Guest Post)
Ilove tuna gravy on toast...thats what my mom called it, made just like milk gravy, when I make it for someone for the first time they think ewwwww but when its done they always want seconds

Posted on 03/03/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By guest (Guest Post)
We have also had this as Chipped beef on toast.
Mom bought that salty dried beef and shreddeded it.

I forgot about this! YUM!

Posted on 02/23/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Kari. (Guest Post)
I grew up having this and still make it often but I add peas to the tuna and sauce and have hard boiled eggs on the side.

Posted on 02/20/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By calnorth (74) Contact
We used to love this as kids. We thought of it as a treat (we didn't know it was dirt cheap). For breakfast, my mom would use the same recipe except she would use hard-boiled eggs instead of tuna--Creamed Eggs on Toast. It's still one of our favorites.

Camilla

Posted on 02/19/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By LaniJimB1 (Guest Post)
We used to have this every couple of weeks. We used the good old faithful cream of mushroom soup and green peas.

Posted on 02/19/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

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