Budget Recipes: Tuna Potato Bake

Ingredients

• Roughly 0.5Kg potatoes
• 1 tin of tuna
• cheese for topping
• butter/milk/black pepper to taste

As you can see, this tuna potato bake recipe's easy to do as it uses so few ingredients! 

• Put the kettle on to boil
• Peel potatoes and slice them very thinly.
  
• Put the potatoes, with a dash of salt, into a saucepan
• Cover potatoes with boiling water and bring to the boil. Simmer for about 12 minutes - until the potatoes start to break up when you poke them with a fork.

Tip: If you have a vegetable steamer, then just steam the potato slices, I find it's quicker, the potatoes have a better consistency, there's less steam produced and I find it easier to rinse out a vegetable steamer than washing up a saucepan (I have limited space in the kitchen and my vegetable steamer is about 1/2 the size of a saucepan). Additionally, steaming your potato slices will retain the vitamins... I like to leave the skins on too!

• Pre-heat the oven to about 200°C/375°F
• Strain the potatoes and put them in a large mixing bowl then mash the potatoes to taste. For me this means dropping in a large spoon of Flora Light and some black pepper, but for others of you this might mean mixing with butter and possibly a dash of milk or cream.
• Once the spuds are mashed, open the tin of tuna and add the tuna to the potato - pick the tuna out of the can in small bits with a fork.
• Mix the tuna/mash together and spoon the mix into ovenproof dishes. How many you use depends on how much you think a portion is - and what dishes you have!
• Sprinkle grated cheese on top of the tuna/mash mix
• Place the dish(es) into the oven and bake for about 20 minutes. The cheese should be melted and slightly browned.
• Remove from the oven and serve your tuna potato bake while it's still hot. 
  

Once made, this tuna potato bake can be refrigerated, in a covered dish, and will be fine to eat up to 3-4 days later.  You can eat it cold, or you can microwave the tuna potato bake for 3-4 minutes to reheat it.  It will also freeze well.

• just a splash of brown sauce
• serve with baked beans
• serve with a side salad

Notes

Any portions of Tuna Potato Bake that you don't eat immediately can be put covererd in the fridge and used up to 3 days later by microwaving it for 4-5 minutes. Or you could freeze it into portions.

I like this a lot. Tuna potato bake is cheap, easy to prepare, keeps for days and tastes great.

I hope you enjoy this Tuna Potato Bake with Cheese recipe as much as I do.

If you want to keep it easy, then instead of baking this Tuna & Potato Bake in the oven, why not just mix the tuna and mash, form into neat little cakes and fry them?

Tuna & Potato Fishcakes

After shaping the tuna/potato mix into neat individual cakes, coat in flour or breadcrumbs.

I'd put the cheese on the inside so it's a melted layer!

For speed, you could finish the mix off under a medium grill instead of the oven.